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“So I told it to him. Laugh! I was wishing to myself that he was a customer. What a hill of glass I’d sell him! (а) Who is ‘I’ and who is being talked to? (b) What does a ‘bill of glass’ stand for?
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01/02/2021 11:48 am
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
“So I told it to him. Laugh! I was wishing to myself that he was a customer. What a hill of glass I’d sell him!
(а) Who is ‘I’ and who is being talked to?
(b) What does a ‘bill of glass’ stand for?
(c) What assessment do you make of the speaker?
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01/02/2021 11:48 am

(a) ‘I’ is John A. Pescud talking to the Colonel, father of Jessie.
(b) It stands for his transaction in love; if successful, it could make him very rich.
(c) He is very shrewd, persistent in his pursuits.
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