1. Why are the persons in that merry group laughing and chattering
instead of listening to Mr. B----? 2. I think that the doctor is telling
stories about a bachelor who was once a good friend of his. 3. The
gentleman being talked about (160, 165) will visit us this evening,
possibly. 4. My aunt and cousin will come down stairs and converse with
him. 5. We shall drink as many cups of tea or of coffee as we wish. 6.
He will say "How is your health, Madam?" My aunt will reply half-angrily
that she is seldom ill. 7. We shall sit on the veranda, for the sun is
still shining, although it is already setting. 8. That young lady who
came with Mrs. C---- relates the best possible stories. 9. She says
that the Chinese were already an enlightened nation hundreds of years
ago, while other nations were still cruelly fighting. 10. A method for
printing the pages of books, instead of writing them, was a discovery
of the Chinese. They printed books in their printing-shops, a thousand
years ago. 12. They also were-acquainted-with gunpowder, which they made
and used for such fires as we use on national days of-celebration, when
we have leisure and wish to enjoy (to amuse) ourselves. 13. But the
Chinese have not changed these methods. 14. Their ways of commerce, work
and pleasure are the same as they were long ago. 15. Such a nation does
not progress rapidly, even though its life is very long.