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'And you came mighty near missing the train at Powhatan Junction, too’, says she, with a laugh that sounded as good as a mileage-book to me. (a) Who is the speaker? (b) What do you think of her? (c) What does ‘mighty’ mean here?
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01/02/2021 12:02 pm
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
'And you came mighty near missing the train at Powhatan Junction, too’, says she, with a laugh that sounded as good as a mileage-book to me.
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) What do you think of her?
(c) What does ‘mighty’ mean here?
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01/02/2021 12:03 pm

(a) Jessie, the girl whom John Pescud chased for long and then married, is the speaker here.
(b) She is a clever and intelligent girl with a sense of keen observation.
(c) ‘very’.
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