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31/01/2021 11:09 am
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
“Percy, if you don’t keep quiet, I’ll forget I’m your sister and let you have one. What do you mean, Bill, you’ve come home? Isn’t there going to be the fight next week, after all?” “The fight’s over,” said the unsuppressed Major, joyfully, “and Bill’s won, with – me seconding him.”
(a) Why was Mrs. Bramble angry?
(b) What had Bill told her?
(c) Give the meaning of ‘unsuppressed’.
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31/01/2021 11:10 am
(а) Mrs. Bramble was angry at her husband’s leaving his training to fight as in that case they would not get any money essential for their son’s education.
(b) Bill had told her that Mr. Bramble had come back with the idea not to fight.
(c) ‘not preventing oneself to express feelings’.