Fingers and blew a kiss out pf the black well. Then her arm fell back

• Good-bye, Billy*, she murmured faintly. •You are millions of miles away. But you kept where I could see you most of the time, when there wasn't anything else but darkness around me. Millions of miles... Good-bye, Billy Jackson*.

Clara, the coloured maid, found the door locked at ten next morning, and they forced it open. The girl was unconscious and someone ran to phone for an ambulance*.

Soon it arrived, and a young doctor, in his white linen coat, quick and active, climbed the steps. •Ambulance call to 49», he said. «What's the trouble?*. «Oh, yes, doctor*, sniffed Mrs. Parker. She was not pleased that there was trouble in the house. «I can't understand what can be the matter with her. She is unconscious and we can't bring her to. It's a young woman, Miss Elsie Lee­ son. Never before in my house—»

•What room?* cried the doctor in a terrible voice. Mrs. Parker had never heard such a voice before. «The skylight¹ room. It —»

Evidently the ambulance doctor knew the way to sky­ light rooms. He ran up the stairs, four at a time*. Mrs. Parker followed slowly; she was not used to hurrying. On the first landing she met the doctor who was coming back. He was carrying the astronomer in his arms. He stopped for a moment and said something to Mrs. Parker that was evidently not very pleasant to hear.

The ambulance doctor walked with his burden through the crowd of curious gapers that had gathered in the street. His face was pale and grave.

They noticed that he did not lay down the girl up the bed in the ambulance, and that all he said to the driver was: •Drive like hell!*

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Английский язык

That is all. In the next morning's newspaper I saw a little item, and the last sentence of it may help you (as it helped me) to understand the story better.

«A young woman has been brought to Bellevue Hospi­ tal from No. 49... Street. She is suffering from debility caused by starvation. The ambulance doctor William Jackson who attended the case, says the patient will recover*.

Приложение 2

WALTER SCOTT

theNormans, who oppressed the native Anglo-Saxon

Rvanhoc

In that pleasant district of merry England which lies on both sides of the river Don, in old times there was a large forest. Parts of this forest still exist. It was the home of the brave outlaws, who were so popular.

Our story describes the time towards the end of the reign of Richard I, when he was abroad. The barons, in the king's absence, strengthened their castles and acted like little kings. Prince John, the king's brother, with the help of the barons, tried to seize the throne. Common people were cruelly oppressed.

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