Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
When I got to New Mullion, my eager expectations of a sweet and simple country village were severely disappointed. Its streets were rivers of mud, with rows of wooden shops, either painted a sour brown, or bare of any paint at all.
(a) Who is 'I'?
(b) Why was 'I' disappointed?
(c) What does the word 'expectations' mean ?
OR
'Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear."
(a) Who is the speaker of these lines? Who is he speaking to ?
(b) What does the young man mean by 'honey-coloured ramparts' ?
(c) What does the word 'despair' mean ?
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a) 'I' refers to the narrator who is a lawyer in search of ""Oliver Lutkins"".
b) The word 'I' refers to the narrator, he had expected to see a quaint country village on arriving at New Mullion and was disappointed to see mud roads with wooden shops which were not very pretty to look at.
c) In this context, 'expectations' refers to the scene that narrator had imagined how the village will look like in his mind.
OR
a) These lines are spoken by a young man in love with Anne Gregory and he is speaking to her.
b) He is referring to the yellow coloured hair of Anne Gregory.
c) In this context, 'despair' means a person who is at a loss of hope.
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