Exercises Containing a Variety of Inflections
Let each pupil decide for himself what he believes to be the most effective and proper inflections in the following. In doing this it is well to have him state his reason. This act of reasoning will aid him in concentrating upon the thought matter.
The cold feeble dawn of a January morning was stealing in at the windows of the common sleeping room, when Nicholas, raising himself on his arm, looked among the prostrate forms in search of the boy Smike.
“Now, then,” cried Squeer, from the bottom of the stairway, “are you going to sleep all day, up there?”
“We shall be down directly, sir.”
“Down directly! You had better be down directly, or I’ll be down on some of you in less time than directly. Where’s that Smike?”
Nicholas looked round again.
“He is not here, sir.”
“Don’t tell me a lie. He is.”