 
 <prompt> text: ```CHAPTER XII 

CONSOLATION 

On di next Sunday, neither Tudor nor Norman dey for Hampton. Dem bin feel say dem no fit waka go meet each other there comfortably, and each bin reject to go. Dem bin promise to write; and now wey di matter don settle, how dem or any of dem go fit keep di promise? 

E fit be say di bitterness of di moment don finish for Norman as soon as he give up; but e no be so. Make e struggle as e fit with himself, e no fit rally, nor fit make himself feel happy on wetin don happen. E for don dey better if Alaric for don win; but Alaric look like say e dey take am as normal thing, and e never talk about im own promotion unless e do so as answer to some talk of im companion; then e fit talk easy; otherwise e dey ready make di matter pass as one wey don settle and rest. E don ask Norman about di purchase of horse, but e never show any other sign say e be richer man pass before. 

E be very bitter time for Norman. E no fit remove di matter from im mind. Wetin e go do? Where e go go? How e go fit waka comot, even for small time, from Alaric Tudor? And then, e dey right to want make e waka comot from am? E no tell himself, over and over again, say e suppose as man and friend and Christian to conquer di bitter feeling of envy wey dey worry im mind? E no counsel Alaric to stand dis examination? and e no promise say im doing so no go make any difference for their friendship? E no pledge say e go rejoice for di success of im friend? and now e wan break im word both to that friend and to himself? 

Numbered answers:```
 <response>: ```1. bitter
2. one horse
3. say e be richer man pass before
4. Two
5. Alaric Tudor
6. Hampton
7. Dem two bin feel say dem no fit waka meet for there
8. unknown
9. Christian
10. something wey dem buy``` 