“It’s not by us … it’s for your parents. You are simply trying to make me buy a villa so that you can put your father and your mother in it. You see, I know you. If you got want you want, do you realise what would happen? We would spend the month of ...

Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
“It’s not by us … it’s for your parents. You are simply trying to make me buy a villa so that you can put your father and your mother in it. You see, I know you. If you got want you want, do you realise what would happen? We would spend the month of August in the villa, but your parents would take possession of it every year from the beginning of April until the end of September.”
(a) Why is she trying to make him buy a villa?
(b) What would happen, if she got what she wanted?
(c) Does the speaker want to buy the villa? If not, why?

(a) Gaston thinks that his wife Jeanne is trying to make him buy villa not for them but for her parents.
(b) Her parents would take possession of the villa and would bring even her sister’s children with them.
(c) No, the speaker is not interested in buying the villa. He knows that his wife is simply trying to make him buy it for her parents.
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None of that, my friend! I’m too old a bird to be caught with chaff. You would ask your sister for the keys, would you? A likely story! You would rouse the house too. Eh? Ha! A good joke truly. Come, where is the food. I want no keys. I have a wolf i...
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You told him she was feeling poorly, did you? And so my brother is to be kept out of his bed, and go without his supper because you told him she was feeling poorly. There’s gratitude for you! (a) Who is ‘she’ in the above extract? (b) Who is the sp...
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