1. Recall the situations in which you come across the following expressions and translate them:

BABYLON REVISITED

1. Recall the situations in which you come across the following expressions and translate them:

to be portentous to run up a bill a bad check to issue to set a legal guardianship to became alarmed at to escape to a grave to be poor as hell to reconsider the matter to swear smb. to die of heart trouble to square with one’s conscience to settle the details on the spot to provide for smb to stand in smb’s way

2. Make up your own sentences using the expressions.

3. Give transcription to the following words and pronounce them:

portentous, chasseur, restaurant, bistro, bourgeois, salon, antipathy, millionaire, curious, elude, vaudeville, piquant, recalcitrant.

4. Read and translate the extract:

“He was not really disappointed to find Paris was so empty. But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous. It was not an American bar any more--he felt polite in it, and not as if he owned it. It had gone back into France. He felt the stillness from the moment he got out of the taxi and saw the doorman, usually in a frenzy of activity at this hour, gossiping with a chasseur by the servants' entrance. Passing through the corridor, he heard only a single, bored voice in the once-clamorous women's room. When he turned into the bar he travelled the twenty feet of green carpet with his eyes fixed straight ahead by old habit; and then, with his foot firmly on the rail, he turned and surveyed the room, encountering only a single pair of eyes that fluttered up from a newspaper in the corner. Charlie asked for the head barman, Paul, who in the latter days of the bull market had come to work in his own custom-built car--disembarking, however, with due nicety at the nearest corner. But Paul was at his country house today and Alix giving him information.“

5. Give the character sketches of Charlie Wales, Marion, Lincoln.

6. Answer the questions:

1. What can you tell about the main characters of the story? 2. How has Paris changed for Charles Wales? 3. What do we learn about Charles past life? 4. What tragedy happened in the family of Wales? 5. Why did Honoria Wales live with Linkoln and Marion Peters? 6. Why did Charles revisit Paris? 7. What did he think of his daughter? 8. What was Marion’s attitude towards Charlie? How can you explain it? 9. Why was Marion so reluctant to give Honoria back to her father? 10. What can you say about Lorraine and Duncan? What impression did Charlie’s former friends produce? 11. In what psychological condition and mood did Charlie leave Paris? Was he going to return? What were his plans concerning Marion?

7. Give a summary of the story.

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