MRS BENNET' DEAREST WISH (after Jane Austen/
Everyone knows (1)________ a man (2)_________ a good income who is not yet married
must need a wife. When such a man moves (3)______ a new neighbourhood, this truth is
so well fixed (4)________ the minds of the families who live there, that they immediately
consider him to be the property of one or other (5)________ their daughters. (6)________
he himself may think about it is not a matter of any importance.
"My dear Mr Bennet," Mrs Bennet said (7)_________ her husband one morning, "did you
know that Netherfield Park has been let (8)________ last?"
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Mr Bennet answered that he did not.
"Well, it has. Mrs Long has just been here and she told me."
Mr Bennet said nothing. *
"Don't you want to know who has rented it?" cried his wife impatiently.
"You want to tell me and I have no objection (9)_______ listening.
This was enough (10)_______ Mrs Bennet.
"My dear, Mrs Long says it has been rented (11)_________ a young man (12)________ a
large fortune. He came down (13)_______ Monday to see the place and was so delighted
(14)________ it that he plans to move (15)_________ before the end of this month."
"What's his name?"
"Bingley."
"Is he married or single?"
"Oh, single, my dear! A single man (16)__________ a very good income, four thousand
pounds a year. What a fine thing (17)________ our girls!"
"However does it affect them?"
"My dear Mr Bennet, how can you be so annoying! (18)________ I mean is that he might
marry one of them."
"Is that his reason (19)________ renting Netherfield Park?"
"His reason? Of course not! Still, it is very likely that he will fall (20)__________ love (21)
_______ one of them, so you must visit him (22)________ soon (23)________ he arrives."
"I see no need for that. You and the girls can go, or you can send the five (24)_________
them by themselves."
"But consider your daughters. Just think what a good marriage it would be for one of them!
You must go! It will be impossible (25)________ us to visit him if you do not."
"I'm sure Mr Bingley will be very glad to see you; and I'll give you a letter saying he has my permission to marry any of the girls he chooses - though I must recommend my little Lizzy."
"You will do no such thing. Lizzy is no better (26)________ the others and she is not (27)
_______ pretty (28)_________ Jane nor (29)________ pleasant (30)_________ Lydia."
"None of them have much to recommend them," he replied. "They are all silly, stupid girls
but Lizzy is (31)________ least a bit more intelligent than the others."
"Mr Bennet, (32)________ can you be so rude (33)_______ your own children? You delight
(34)________ upsetting me. You make me so nervous. You don't know what I suffer."
"But I hope (35)________ you'll get better, my dear, and live to see many young men worth
four thousand pounds a year move (36)________ the neighbourhood."
Ex. 6. Translate these complex sentences into Russian.
I (B, C)
1. Mortimer remains unconscious of the document until Lady Tippins says, "The Commendatore is giving you the note. Why don't you take it from him?"
2. I saw her once, you know, Marta. She could have had a good life once he became famous. But she refused everything and, just once, he took me to meet her.
3. I suppose, in view of everything, it's amazing that he ever fell in love with me at all. And that's why I'll go back.
4. "Things like that only happen in Act Three in Operetta." - "It was surely pure operetta that you came to work in Hochhauser - my son's girlfriend disguised as a prim stage designer - spying out the mystery of her lover's secret father."
5. There was a nock on the door. "D'you want anything ironed?" Declan peered in the mirror: "Only my face." He gave her his suit, light grey and very lightweight, as he was going to be under the hot lights for an hour.
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6. I knew I had got it wrong again - that what was meant to be grand and romantic was funny and a mistake.
7. It was curious, for all around them was noise, people talking, eating, the smells of the kitchen wafting through and over them, and yet she felt they were cocooned in a silent world of their own, images lifting and falling from the past, making her understand things, as he talked.
8. I haven't heard such language as yours since we used to review the volunteers in Hyde Park twenty years ago.
9. You must forgive my grandfather, for, as far as he is concerned, it is yesterday that the Civil War ended, and besides, discretion has never been among his strongest traits.
10. "James will ask you your idea of the perfect romantic hero, Ashley," Deirdre was saying earnestly. "And it'd very nice if you could say: "You are, James", which would bring James in the centre of the interview."