Ex. 10, p. 440 Suddenly there came a knock to the door and Dorian heard Lord Henry's voice
outside. He said he couldn't bear his friend shutting himself in and asked Dorian to
let him in at once.
Dorian made no answer at first, but then jumped up and unlocked the door.
The first thing Lord Henry said when he entered was that he was sorry for it all
but in his opinion Dorian mustn't think too much of it. Then he inquired if Dorian
had seen Sibyl Vane after the play was over.
Dorian said that he had and confessed that he had been brutal to her. He added
however, that everything was all right and he felt perfectly happy at the moment. He
had decided to marry Sibyl Vane because he wanted to be good and couldn't bear the
idea of his soul being so bad and ugly.
Ex. 11, p. 441 I
have noticed that when someone
asks for you on the telephone and, finding you
out,
leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, the
matter
is more important to him than to you. When it
comes to making you a present
or doing you a favour, most people
are able to hold their impatience. So when I
was told by Miss Fellows, my landlady, that Mr. Alroy Kear
wished me to ring him up at
once, I
felt that I
could safely ignore his request.
I had not seen Roy for three months and then only for a few minutes at a party.
"London
is awful," he
said. "One never
has time to see any of the people one
wants to. Let's lunch togethe one day, shall we?"
As I
was smoking a pipe before going to bed, I
turned over i my mind the
possible reasons for which Roy
might want me t lunch with him.
Ex. 13, p. 442 1. "He doesn't know your address, does he?" — "Yes, he does. He has called on
me." 2. They had hardly/scarcely/barely cover thirty kilometres when the weather
changed. 3. He is a teache