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The Bishop’s Candlesticks
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23/03/2021 6:03 pm
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
They caught me. I pleaded to them, I told them why I stole, but they laughed at me, and I was sentenced to ten years in the prison hulks (pause), ten years in Hell. The night I was sentenced, the jailer told me-told me Jeanette was dead. (Sobs with fury) Ah, damn them, damn them. God curse them all.
(a) Why did the police arrest the Convict?
(b) Did they listen to his pleadings? What did they do with him?
(c) Find a word in the extract opposite in meaning to ‘praise’.
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23/03/2021 6:04 pm
(a) They arrested the Convict because he was stealing to buy food for his hungry wife.
(b) No, they didn’t listen to his pleadings and he was sent to jail for stealing.
(c) Curse.