9. The child had been confined to his bed for the last three days.
10. You do not know what sort of man you have to deal with.
11. During this fine speech we were all laughing in our sleeves.
12. I might have answered, but took good care not to.
13. When they were hard up for something more to say, they at last retired.
14. The interesting victim was made to repeat his story twenty times running.
15. It would have been much better for me to have been dismissed at once.
XV (pp. 71—75)
1. I should pity him more if he did not complain so often.
2. Although it was spring, a good deal of snow had fallen during the night