Coaxingly, whine, pricked, subdue, clutched, wicked, be made up, flutelike, hateful, bustle, savage

Explain the words in bold type.

Prepare sentences of your own, using the active words.

TASKS

JO MEETS APOLLYON

CHAPTER 8

Translate the following passage into English. Compare it with the original.

- Значит, ты радуешься, что меня опозорили перед всей школой? -крикнула Эми.

- Ну, я бы наказала тебя по-другому, - ответила миссис Марч. - Хотя и не уверена, что более мягкое наказание застави­ло бы тебя о чем-то задуматься. Ты становишься, моя милая, слишком самоуверенной и спесивой. В тебе много хорошего, и способностями тебя Бог не обделил. Но ты чересчур гордишься своими достоинствами. Запомни: самомнение губит даже гени­ального человека. Настоящий талант или настоящую доброту
нечего выставлять напоказ. Их и так рано или поздно заметят. А если и не заметят, уже само то, что Господь наделил человека таким даром, - достаточная награда. И запомни, самая очарова­тельная черта подлинного таланта - это скромность.

- Верно! - воскликнул Лори из угла гостиной, где сражался в шахматы с Джо. - Я знал одну такую девочку. У нее был на­ стоящий талант к музыке, а она даже не подозревала об этом. Если бы ей кто-нибудь сказал, какие прелестные пьески она сочиняет, когда остается один на один с роялем, она решила бы, что над ней смеются.

- Хотела бы я познакомиться с этой девочкой, - сказала Бет, - она, наверное, согласилась бы мне помочь. Я так мало делаю успехов.

- Вы ее знаете, и она вам уже помогает, - ответил Лори и так лукаво улыбнулся, что Бет вдруг покраснела и, поражен­ная внезапным открытием, зарыла лицо в подушки дивана.

Find the following words and word combinations in the text of Chapter 8 and translate them into your mother-language.

bridle up	plume
rag money	turnover
bundle up	to put smb to rights
fidgety	crosspatch
fiddlestick	snap
repent	pant
wrong	cherish
a box on the ear	confounded skates
gruffly	fly about
overtures	penitent
repulse	rebuke

Find in the text and translate the following passages:

1. They had a charming time, for THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE DIAMOND LAKE was as brilliant and wonderful as heart could wish. - "Has anyone taken my book?"

2. Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself; and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the garret, and finished her fight alone. - When the tea bell rang, Jo appeared, looking so grim and unapproachable that it took all Amy's courage to say meekly...

3. Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weak-ness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn't quite forgive yet. - Amy heard the clash of skates, and looked out with an impatient exclamation.

4. Jo heard Amy panting after her run, stamping her feet and blowing on her fingers as she tried to put her skates on, but Jo never turned and went slowly zigzagging down the river, taking a bitter, unhappy sort of satisfaction in her sister's troubles. - When Amy was comfortably asleep, the house quiet, and Mrs. March sitting by the bed, she called Jo to her and began to bind up the hurt hands.

5. "I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. - Amy stirred and sighed in her sleep, and as if eager to begin at once to mend her fault, Jo looked up with an expression on her face which it had never worn before.

Recall the situations from the story suggested by the following sentences:

1. "Girls, where are you going?" asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday afternoon, and finding them getting ready to go out with an air of secrecy which excited her curiosity.

2. "You'll be sorry for this, Jo March, see if you ain't."

3. When they got home, they found Amy reading in the parlor.

4. "Please forgive me, Jo. I'm very, very sorry."

"I never shall forgive you," was Jo's stern answer, and from that moment she ignored Amy entirely.

5. "Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating. He is always kind and jolly, and will put me to rights, I know," said Jo to herself, and off she went.

6. "Keep near the shore. It isn't safe in the middle."

Jo heard, but Amy was struggling to her feet and did not catch a word. Jo glanced over her shoulder, and the little demon she was harboring said in her ear...

"No matter whether she heard or not, let her take care of herself."

7. "Laurie did it all. I only let her go. Mother, if she should die, it would be my fault."

8. "Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it. Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them. You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it."

9. "Poor Mother! What helped you then?"

10. "I let the sun go down on my anger. I wouldn't forgive her, and today, if it hadn't been for Laurie, it might have been too late! How could I be so wicked?" said Jo, half aloud, as she leaned over her sister softly stroking the wet hair scattered on the pillow.

Speak on the following:

1. The beginning and the reason of the quarrel. Who was right in your opinion? Whose fault was the quarrel?

2. The development of the quarrel. Amy’s vengeance.

3. What could serve a plausible pretext to make it up?

4. The accident on the river.

5. Mrs. March’s revelation.

Make up the situation round the following sentences:

1. "You are going somewhere with Laurie, I know you are. You were whispering and laughing together on the sofa last night, and you stopped when I came in. Aren't you going with him?"

2. "You wicked, wicked girl! I never can write it again, and I'll never forgive you as long as I live."

3. "There! She promised I should go next time, for this is the last ice we shall have. But it's no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me."

4. "Are you sure she is safe?"

5. "You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it."

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