Preparatory.—Make a black-board sketch of the race-course, fixing the position of "the scratch," "the Old Fort," "the high bank with the spectators," "the bridge," etc.
In what passages does the excitement reach its greatest height? How are the Pitch and Time affected? (Introduction, pp. [13] and [22].)
What is the Stress employed throughout? Where is the Stress most marked? Give reasons. (Introduction, pp. [27] and [28].)
MRS. MALAPROP'S VIEWS
From "The Rivals"
The scene is Mrs. Malaprop's lodgings at Bath. Present, Lydia Languish.
Enter Mrs. Malaprop and Sir Anthony Absolute.
Mrs. Malaprop.—There, Sir Anthony, there sits the deliberate simpleton who wants to disgrace her family, and lavish herself on a fellow not worth a shilling.
Lydia.—Madam, I thought you once—
Mrs. Malaprop.—You thought, miss! I don't know any business you have to think at all: thought does not become a young woman. But the point we would request of you is, that you will promise to forget this fellow; to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.