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Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde.
(a) Mathilde was beautiful, and so she wanted to marry an aristocrat.
(b) Mathilde was sad because she did not get any luxuries.
(c) Mathilde felt that her house was shabby and poorly furnished.
(d) Mathilde wanted other people to envy her.
(e) Mathilde was not happy to see the invitation.
(f) Mathilde wanted a new dress for herself.
(9) Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend and wore it to the party
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Answer:
(Q. No. 1-10) Read the following passage from the lesson “Can’t climb trees
any more”.
She sprang up and ran across the grass, swift and sweet of limb. Soon she was
in the jackfruit tree, crawling along the projecting branch. A warm wind brought
little eddies of dust along the road. Summer was in the air....
‘I’ve found it!’ she cried. ‘I’ve found something!’
And now, barefoot, she ran breathlessly towards him, in her outstretched hand a
rusty old medal.
He took it from her and turned it over on his palm.
‘Is it the Iron Cross?’ she asked eagerly.
‘Yes’, he said, ‘this is it.’
‘Now I know why you came. You wanted to see if it was still in the tree.’
‘You may be right. I’m not really sure why I came. But you can keep the
Cross. You found it, after all.’
‘No, you keep it. It’s yours.’
‘But it could have remained in the tree for another twenty-five years if you
hadn’t climbed up to look for it.’
‘But if you hadn’t come back again....’
‘On the right day, at the right time, and with the right person’, he said, getting
up and placing the medal in her hands. ‘It wasn’t the Cross I came for. It was my
youth.’
She didn’t understand that, but she walked with him to the gate and stood
there gazing after him as he walked away. Where the road turned, he looked back
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