question: CHAPTER THE THIRD 

THE NEW PHASE 

§ 1 

In the course of the next six months the child of the ages became an almost ordinary healthy baby, and Trafford began to think consecutively about his scientific work again--in the intervals of effort of a more immediately practical sort. 

The recall of molecular physics and particularly of the internal condition of colloids to something like their old importance in his life was greatly accelerated by the fact that a young Oxford don named Behrens was showing extraordinary energy in what had been for a time Trafford's distinctive and undisputed field. Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men. He had begun as Trafford's pupil and sedulous ape; he had gone on to work that imitated Trafford's in everything except its continual freshness, and now he was ransacking every scrap of suggestion to be found in Trafford's work, and developing it with an intensity of uninspired intelligence that most marvellously simulated originality. He was already being noted as an authority; sometimes in an article his name would be quoted and Trafford's omitted in relation to Trafford's ideas, and in every way his emergence and the manner of his emergence threatened and stimulated his model and master. A great effort had to be made. Trafford revived the drooping spirits of Durgan by a renewed punctuality in the laboratory. He began to stay away from home at night and work late again, now, however, under no imperative inspiration, but simply because it was only by such an invasion of the evening and night that it would be possible to make headway against Behren's unremitting industry. And this new demand upon Trafford's already strained mental and nervous equipment began very speedily to have its effect upon his domestic life. 
1. Did the child become ordinary and healthy?
2. Who was doing work?
3. What kind of work?
4. What was he trying to remember about colloids?
5. What subject are they a part of?
6. Who was from Oxford?
7. Was he lazy about his work?
8. What did he show?
9. Was he encroaching on Trafford's territory?
10. Who do people like Behrens frustrate?
11. Who did he learn from?
12. What did Trafford treat him like?
13. Did he mimic Trafford in every manner?
14. Where did it differ?
15. So what was he looking for now?
16. Was he considered an authority?
17. Was Trafford always given credit for what was his own idea?
18. Who would be given credit?
19. Who did Trafford cheer up?
20. How?
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answer: 1. yes
2. Trafford
3. scientific
4. the internal condition
5. molecular physics
6. Behrens
7. no
8. extraordinary energy
9. yes
10. originative men
11. Trafford
12. a sedulous ape
13. no
14. continual freshness
15. unknown
16. yes
17. no
18. Behren
19. Durgan
20. a renewed punctuality in the laboratory


question: Charles V (; ; Dutch: "Karel"; ) (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets". 

Charles was the heir of three of Europe's leading dynasties: the Houses of Valois-Burgundy (Burgundy and Netherlands), Habsburg (Holy Roman Empire), and Trastámara (Spain). He inherited the Burgundian Netherlands and the Franche-Comté as heir of the House of Valois-Burgundy. From his own dynasty, the Habsburgs, he inherited Austria and other lands in central Europe. He was also elected to succeed his Habsburg grandfather, Maximilian I, as Holy Roman Emperor, a title held by the Habsburgs since 1440. From the Spanish House of Trastámara, he inherited the crowns of Castile, which was in the process of developing a nascent empire in the Americas and Asia, and Crown of Aragon, which included a Mediterranean empire extending to Southern Italy. Charles was the first king to rule Castile and Aragon simultaneously in his own right and as a result he is sometimes referred to as the first king of Spain. The personal union, under Charles, of the Holy Roman Empire with the Spanish Empire resulted in the closest Europe would come to a universal monarchy since the death of Louis the Pious.
1. What did Charles V rule over?
2. When?
3. What he forcefully removed?
4. Who was one of the three people who left him a dynasty?
5. From where?
6. Who is another person he inherited from?
7. Where from?
8. Who did he receive the Crowns of Castile from/
9. What were they in the process of doing?
10. What else?
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answer: 1. the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
2. from 1516 and from 1519
3. no
4. the Houses of Valois-Burgundy
5. Burgundy and Netherlands
6. House of Habsburg
7. Holy Roman Empire
8. From the Spanish House of Trastámara
9. developing a nascent empire in the Americas and Asia
10. Crown of Aragon


question: CHAPTER XXVII 

Philippa and Helen looked at one another a little dolefully across the luncheon table. 

"I supposes one misses the child," Helen said. 

"I feel too depressed for words," Philippa admitted. 

"A few days ago," Helen reminded her companion, "we were getting all the excitement that was good for any one." 

"And a little more," Philippa agreed. "I don't know why things seem so flat now. We really ought to be glad that nothing terrible has happened." 

"What with Henry and Mr. Lessingham both away," Helen continued, "and Captain Griffiths not coming near the place, we really have reverted to the normal, haven't we? I wonder--if Mr. Lessingham has gone back." 

"I do not think so," Philippa murmured. 

Helen frowned slightly. 

"Personally," she said, with some emphasis, "I hope that he has." 

"If we are considering the personal point of view only," Philippa retorted, "I hope that he has not." 

Helen looked her disapproval. 

"I should have thought that you had had enough playing with fire," she observed. 

"One never has until one has burned one's fingers," Philippa sighed. "I know perfectly well what is the matter with you," she continued severely. "You are fretting because curried chicken is Dick's favourite dish." 

"I am not such a baby," Helen protested. "All the same, it does make one think. I wonder--" 

"I know exactly what you were going to say," Philippa interrupted. "You were going to say that you wondered whether Mr. Lessingham would keep his promise." 

"Whether he would be able to," Helen corrected. "It does seem so impossible, doesn't it?" 
1. What was Dick's favorite meal?
2. Who does this worry?
3. Who hopes that Lessingham has returned?
4. Does Philippa agree?
5. Out of what consideration?
6. Where were the two talking?
7. Were they cheerful?
8. Whom did they miss?
9. What is the child's name?
10. Is Lessingham the only one gone?
11. Who else is gone?
12. Who won't come near?
13. How does Philippa feel?
14. Who says the other has played with fire?
15. Has Philippa had enough of it?
16. Does Helen deny being something?
17. What?
18. What does she wonder about Lessingham?
19. To do what?
20. Does it seem likely to her?
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answer:
1. curried chicken
2. Helen
3. Helen
4. no
5. personal point of view
6. across the luncheon table
7. no
8. the child
9. Henry
10. no
11. Henry
12. Captain Griffiths
13. depressed
14. Helen
15. unknown
16. yes
17. a baby
18. Whether he would be able to
19. keep his promise
20. no