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The underlined word is: "We simply met in the garden, and we talked a bit."
"Tout bonnement! And pray what did you say?"

The underlined word is: "Ah, you don't accept them?" said the young man. "I can't, my dear Frederick. I would if I could, but I can't."

The underlined word is: "An intimacy with the courier?" the young man demanded.
"Oh, the mother is just as bad! They treat the courier like a familiar friend--like a gentleman. I shouldn't wonder if he dines with them.

The underlined word is: "But, my dear aunt, she is not, after all, a Comanche savage."
"She is a young lady," said Mrs. Costello, "who has an intimacy
with her mamma's courier."

The underlined word is: "I can't think where they pick it up; and she dresses
in perfection--no, you don't know how well she dresses. I can't think where they get their taste."

The underlined word is: "I see what you mean, of course," said Winterbourne after another pause. "She has that charming look that they all have," his aunt resumed.

The underlined word is: "The young girl is very pretty," said Winterbourne in a moment.
"Of course she's pretty. But she is very common."

The underlined word is: "They are very common," Mrs. Costello declared. "They are the sort
of Americans that one does one's duty by not--not accepting."

The underlined word is: "You had better have said at first," said Mrs. Costello with dignity,
"that you had made her acquaintance."

The underlined word is: And her picture of the minutely hierarchical constitution of the society of that city, which she presented to him in many different lights, was, to Winterbourne's imagination, almost oppressively striking.

The underlined word is: He had imbibed at Geneva the idea that one must always be attentive
to one's aunt. Mrs. Costello had not seen him for many years, and she was greatly pleased with him, manifesting her approbation by initiating him into many of the secrets of that social sway which, as she gave him to understand, she exerted in the American capital.

The underlined word is: He immediately perceived, from her tone, that Miss Daisy Miller's
place in the social scale was low. "I am afraid you don't approve of them," he said.

The underlined word is: He probably corresponds to the young lady's idea of a count.
He sits with them in the garden in the evening. I think he smokes.

The underlined word is: She admitted that she was very exclusive; but, if he were acquainted with New York, he would see that one had to be.

The underlined word is: Very likely they have never seen a man with such good manners, such fine clothes, so like a gentleman.

The underlined word is: Winterbourne listened with interest to these disclosures;
they helped him to make up his mind about Miss Daisy. Evidently she was rather wild. "Well," he said, "I am not a courier, and yet she was very charming to me."

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: " ' "You should be in bed," I said. "Come back to your duties when you are stronger."

" 'She looked at me with so strange an expression that I began to suspect that her brain was affected.

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: " 'It is very possible. We took no pains to hide it.'

" 'He simply wished, I should imagine, to refresh his memory upon that last occasion. He had, as I understand, some sort of map or chart which he was comparing with the manuscript, and which he thrust into his pocket when you appeared.'

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: " 'We had better come back to the paper afterwards,' said I.

" 'If you think it really necessary,' he answered with some hesitation. 'To continue my statement, however: I relocked the bureau, using the key which Brunton had left, and I had turned to go when I was surprised to find that the butler had returned, and was standing before me.

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: "But how can we do it?" I asked.

"Oh, easily enough," said Hall Pycroft cheerily. "You are two friends of mine who are in want of a billet, and what could be more natural than that I should bring you both round to the managing direetor?"

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: "I am an accountant," said Holmes.

"Ah, yes, we shall want something of the sort. And you. Mr. Price? ""A clerk," said I.

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: "That is suggestive," remarked Holmes.

"By Jove, I told you so!" cried the clerk. "That's he walking ahead of us there."

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: "You look ill, Mr. Pinner!" he exclaimed.

"Yes, I am not very well," answered the other, making obvious efforts to pull himself together and licking his dry lips before he spoke. "Who are these gentlemen whom you have brought with you?"

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: He sprang to his feet, his face turned livid with fear, and he thrust into his breast the chart-like paper which he had been originally studying.

" ' "So!" said I. "This is how you repay the trust which we have reposed in you. You will leave my service to-morrow."

Define what part of speech the underlined word is: " ' "Only a week, sir?" he cried in a despairing voice. "A fortnight -- say at least a fortnight!"

" ' "A week," I repeated, "and you may consider yourself to have been very leniently dealt with."

Define what part of speech the underlined words are: "And why?"

"Quite so. Why? When we answer that we have made some progress with our little problem. Why? There can be only one adequate reason. Someone wanted to learn to imitate your writing and had to procure a specimen of it first. And now if we pass on to the second point we find that each throws light upon the other. That point is the request made by Pinner that you should not resign your place, but should leave the manager of this important business in the full expectation that a Mr. Hall Pycroft, whom he had never seen, was about to enter the office upon the Monday morning."

Define what part of speech the underlined words are: "Not a soul," groaned Hall Pycroft.

"Very good. Of course it was of the utmost importance to prevent you from thinking better of it, and also to keep you from coming into contact with anyone who might tell you that your double was at work in Mawson's office. Therefore they gave you a handsome advance on your salary, and ran you off to the Midllands, where they gave you enough work to do to prevent your going to London, where you might have burst their little game up. That is all plain enough."

Define if the underline word is a VERB.

A) " 'Yes,' said I, 'I have taken to living by my wits.'

B) " 'I am delighted to hear it, for your advice at present would be exceedingly valuable to me. We have had some very strange doings at Hurlstone, and the police have been able to throw no light upon the matter. It is really the most extraordinary and inexplicable business.'

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Define if the underline word is a VERB.

A) "You can imagine with what eagerness I listened to him, Watson, for the very chance for which I had been panting during all those months of inaction seemed to have come within my reach. In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

" 'Pray let me have the details,' I cried.

"Reginald Musgrave sat down opposite to me and lit the cigarette which I had pushed towards him.

B) " 'You must know,' said he, 'that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for it is a rambling old place and takes a good deal of looking after.

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Define if the underline word is a VERB.

A) He was a well-grown, handsome man, with a splendid forehead, and though he has been with us for twenty years he cannot be more than forty now.

B) With his personal advantages and his extraordinary gifts -- for he can speak several languages and play nearly every musical instrument -- it is wonderful that he should have been satisfied so long in such a position, but I suppose that he was comfortable and lacked energy to make any change.

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Define if the underline word is a VERB.

A) I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house-party, so that it would not do to be short-handed. Altogether there are eight maids, the cook, the butler, two footmen, and a boy. The garden and the stables of course have a separate staff.

B) " 'Of these servants the one who had been longest in our service was Brunton, the butler. He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he was first taken up by my father, but he was a man of great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household.

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Define if the underline word is a VERB.

A) The butler of Hurlstone is always a thing that is remembered by all who visit us.

B) " 'But this paragon has one fault. He is a bit of a Don Juan, and you can imagine that for a man like him it is not a very difficult part to play in a quiet country district.

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Define if the underline word is an ADVERB.

A) I had no idea of the lengths to which this would carry him until the merest accident opened my eyes to it.

B) " 'I have said that the house is a rambling one. One day last week -- on Thursday night, to be more exact -- I found that I could not sleep, having foolishly taken a cup of strong cafe' noir after my dinner.

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Define if the underline word is an ADVERB.

A) That was our first drama at Hurlstone; but a second one came to drive it from our minds, and it was prefaced by the disgrace and dismissal of butler Brunton.

B) " 'This was how it came about. I have said that the man was intelligent, and this very intelligence has caused his ruin, for it seems to have led to an insatiable curiosity about things which did not in the least concern him.

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Define if the underline word is an ADVERB.

A) When he was married it was all right, but since he has been a widower we have had no end of trouble with him. A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again, for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head game-keeper.

B) Rachel -- who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament -- had a sharp touch of brain-fever and goes about the house now -- or did until yesterday -- like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.

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Define if the underline word is an ADVERB.

A) After struggling against it until two in the morning, I felt that it was quite hopeless, so I rose and lit the candle with the intention af continuing a novel which I was reading.

B) The book, however, had been left in the billiard-room, so I pulled on my dressing-gown and started off to get it.

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Define if the underlined word is an ARTICLE.

A) It was perfectly obvious to me, on reading the Ritual, that the measurements must refer to some spot to which the rest of the document alluded, and that if we could find that spot we should be in a fair way towards finding what the secret was which the old Musgraves had thought it necessary to embalm in so curious a fashion.

B) There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm. As to the oak there could be no question at all. Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the drive, there stood a patriarch among oaks. one of the most magnificent trees that I have ever seen.

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Define if the underlined word is an ARTICLE.

A) This was excellent news, Watson, for it showed me that I was on the right road. I looked up at the sun. It was low in the heavens, and I calculated that in less than an hour it would lie just above the topmost branches of the old oak.

B) One condition mentioned in the Ritual would then be fulfilled. And the shadow of the elm must mean the farther end of the shadow, otherwise the trunk would have been chosen as the guide. I had, then, to find where the far end of the shadow would fall when the sun was just clear of the oak.

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Define if the underlined word is an ARTICLE.

A) "I was already firmly convinced, Watson, that there were not three separate mysteries here, but one only, and that if I could read the Musgrave Ritual aright I should hold in my hand the clue which would lead me to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells. To that then I turned all my energies.

B) Why should this servant be so anxious to master this old formula? Evidently because he saw something in it which had escaped all those generations of country squires, and from which he expected some personal advantage. What was it then, and how had it affected his fate?

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Define if the underlined word is an ARTICLE.

A) Over the low, heavy-lintelled door, in the centre of this old part, is chiselled the date, 1607, but experts are agreed that the beams and stonework are really much older than this. The enormously thick walls and tiny windows of this part had in the last century driven the family into building the new wing, and the old one was used now as a storehouse and a cellar, when it was used at all.

B) A splendid park with fine old timber surrounds the house, and the lake, to which my client. had referred, lay close to the avenue, about two hundred yards from the building.

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