БИЛЕТ №123. Mind the text “A Lions skin” by W.S. Maughham and with the help of the questions describe the events in 10-15 sentences. 1. Where did Mrs. Forestier meet her future husband? 2. Did her husband mind working and not live on his wife’s money? 3. Where had Mr. Hardy met Mr. Forester before? 4. Why did Mr. Forester decide to save the dog by risking his life?4. Talk about the statement below, saying if you agree or disagree. Give reasons. Mrs. Forestier was a very nice woman. But she was neither charming, beautiful nor intelligent; on the contrary she was absurd and foolish; yet the more you knew her, the more you liked her. She was a tender, romantic and idealistic soul. But it took you some time to discover it. During the war she in 1916 joined a hospital, where she met her future husband Captain Forestier, whom she loved at first sight and even after 16 years of marriage Mrs. Forestier still adored her husband. The action takes place in the Forestiers’ villa. Mrs. Forestier had a nice sum of money on her account. When they got married Mrs. Forestier' s relations, hard-bitten Western people, had suggested that her husband should go to work rather than live on her money but Captain Forestier couldn’t find a job worth his while and lived on his wife’s money. Eleanor was too proud of him to let it be said that he was a fortune-hunter who had married her for her money. She didn’t know that their neighbor Mr Hardy met her husband in India, when Forestier was a car-washer full of hopes. Forestier saw rich people in a smart club with their ease, their casual manner and it filled him with admiration and envy. He wanted to be like them, to be a GENTLEMAN. After marriage Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentle- man must act. He gave his life saving his wife’s dog. Eleanor was proud of him to her dying day, especially after a tragic accident, which took his life because of her little dog. After that she found a shelter in their Neighbors’ villa of the Hardys.
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