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How did Sletherby’s judgement of Bertie turn out to be a wrong one?

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How did Sletherby’s judgment of Bertie turn out to be a wrong one?

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Sletherby concluded that Bertie was a fraud. He compared his looks with that of his mom. The footman of Mrs.Saltpen-Jago while describing her appearance, said that she had altered her looks only five weeks ago. She had changed her dark brown hair to a blonde. Sletherby also saw the double crest of the royal family on the door panel of the car which displayed a demi-lion and a greyhound courant. The evidence which made Mr. Sletherby believe that Bertie must have been a fraud turned out to be solid evidence ‘ indicating Bertie’s genuineness as a legal heir of Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. Sletherby realized

with alarm that Bertie had not lied to him, but he had mistaken an honest man in trouble to be an impostor. Sotheby's political future was heading to a disaster simply because he refused to lend three pounds to a young man in trouble. He was penny-wise and pound foolish.

“Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. ”

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पाठ 2.3 A Shot in the Dark
Exercises | Q 4. c) | पृष्ठ ६४

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They whisper like drizzle
as they roam the streets
with a lost gaze as though
something they had thrown up
never returned to earth.

They shiver like December nights
in their dreamless sleep
on shop verandahs.

(1) Why do the old women in this extract roam the streets?

(2) What would you like to do for the betterment of the old people? 

(3) Find out an example of 'onomatopoeia' from the first stanza of the extract.

(4) Pick out the expressions from the extract showing the sad situation of the old women.


What is the symbolic significance of the sun, sky and wind in the first stanza?


Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
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Me? "....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Read the above lines and amswer the question that follow.

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  3. _________________________

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ii). She could not see or hear b). she did not understand what she was doing.
iii). People thought that she could not learn anything c). she could not hear or see.
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Observe the following picture and write a paragraph in about 150 word about each one of them.


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