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31/01/2021 11:07 am
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Certainly, he was very persuasive. Mr. Bramble had fallen in with the suggestion without demur. In private life, he was the mildest and most obliging of men, and always yielded to everybody. The very naming of Harold had caused a sacrifice on his part.
(a) What was the suggestion?
(b) How was Mr. Bramble in life?
(c) What does ‘demur’ mean?
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31/01/2021 11:08 am
(a) The suggestion was that Harold should not be told what his father was.
(b) He was quite mild and obliging.
(c) Saying something that one does not agree with.