1. According to clovis and jane, What would go one mad?
2. What had dora sold to Jane? How had it spoiled their friendship?
3. What according to clovis, was wrong with Sturridge?
4. According to clovis, who did Sturridge think jane martlet was? why did it bother him?
5. What did the clovis tell Sturridge to do? What happened as a result of it?
Answers
Answer:
1.According to them extreme orderliness would make one go mad.
2.Dora had sold a hen of rare breed at a very high price to Jane .Jane thought she would have a very large number of pedigree chicken but the hen never laid any eggs , this spoiled their friendship.
3.Sturbridge had unreasonably stubborn false belifs and sometimes he became a cause of embarrassment.
4.According to Clovis,Sturridge thought that Jane was queen Anne. It bothered him because he headed the queen Anne was dull and boring but Jane whom he thought was the queen was full of life and a colorful personality.
5.Clovis asked Sturridge to take a sword with something written on it to Jane so that she would copy the inscription .Jane thought Sturrige had come to attack her so she quickly vanished from the room.
Answer:
1. According to Clovis and Jane, if a person was too orderly and
did the correct thing, in the correct manner, in the same surrounding for a
long time, it would make the person go mad.
2. Dora had sold Jane Martlet an exotic breed of hen at a very high price.
Jane thought that she would get good value for her money in the form of a
large number of chickens of good breed. However, the hen did not lay any
eggs and this issue spoiled their friendship.
3. According to Clovis, Sturridge was such an orderly person that he had
become a nuisance, who would get delusions about any guest that visited
him.
4. According to Clovis, Sturridge thought that Jane Martlet was Queen
Anne, who should have been dead long ago. He said it bothered him
because he saw Sturridge glowering at Jane and murmuring that she should be dead.
5. Clovis told Sturridge to take an old basket-hilted sword,
hanging on the wall, to Jane Martlet. He also told Sturridge
that Jane wanted to copy the inscription on the sword, and
it would be helpful, if he took it without the sheath.
However, as soon as Sturridge went to Jane with the sword
drawn, she ran out of the room with great swiftness, and
later cut her visit short.
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