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The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): She remembered the difference when, six months before, she had been torn from the breast of that more spirited protectress.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): She wondered whether this affection would be as great as before: that would at all events be the case with the prettiness Maisie could see in the face which showed brightly at the window of the brougham.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): That had at the time dimly recalled to Maisie the far-away moment of Moddle's great outbreak: there seemed always to be "shames" connected in one way or another with her migrations.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): The confidence looked for by that young lady was of the fine sort that explanation can't improve, and she herself at any rate was a person superior to any confusion.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): The word stuck in her mind and contributed to her feeling from this time that she was deficient in something that would meet the general desire.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): They still went to the Gardens, but there was a difference even there; she was impelled perpetually to look at the legs of other children and ask her nurse if THEY were toothpicks.

The predicate(s) of the sentence is (are): Thus from the first Maisie not only felt it, but knew she felt it.

The sentence is: Even at that moment, however, she had a scared anticipation of fatigue, a guilty sense of not rising to the occasion, feeling the charm of the violence with which the stiff unopened envelopes, whose big monograms--Ida bristled with monograms--she would have liked to see, were made to whizz, like dangerous missiles, throughthe air.

The sentence is: Her features had somehow become prominent; they were so perpetually nipped by the gentlemen who came to see her father and the smoke of whose cigarettes went into her face.

The sentence is: Her little world was phantasmagoric--strange shadows dancing on a sheet.

The sentence is: It was as if the whole performance had been given for her--a mite of a half-scared infant in a great dim theatre.

The sentence is: Only a drummer-boy in a ballad or a story could have been so in the thick of the fight.

The sentence is: Some of these gentlemen made her strike matches and light their cigarettes; others, holding her on knees violently jolted, pinched the calves of her legs till she shrieked--her shriek was much admired--and reproached them with being toothpicks.

The sentence is: The greatest effect of the great cause was her own greater importance, chiefly revealed to her in the larger freedom with which she was handled, pulled hither and thither and kissed, and the proportionately greater niceness she was obliged to show.

The sentence refers to: "Won't it be enough of a change for her?"

The sentence refers to: Apparently, however, the circle of the Faranges had been scanned in vain for any such ornament; so that the only solution finally meeting all the difficulties was, save that of sending Maisie to a Home, the partition of the tutelary office in the manner I have mentioned.

The sentence refers to: She was divided in two and the portions tossed impartially to the disputants.

The sentence refers to: The father, who, though bespattered from head to foot, had made good his case, was, in pursuance of this triumph, appointed to keep her: it was not so much that the mother's character had been more absolutely damaged as that the brilliancy of a lady's complexion (and this lady's, in court, was immensely remarked) might be more regarded as showing the spots.

The sentence refers to: The obligation thus attributed to her adversary was no small balm to Ida's resentment; it drew a part of the sting from her defeat and compelled Mr. Farange perceptibly to lower his crest.

The sentence refers to: This was odd justice in the eyes of those who still blinked in the fierce light projected from the tribunal–a light in which neither parent figured in the least as a happy example to youth and innocence.

The sentence refers to: This would make every time, for Maisie, after her inevitable six months with Beale, much more of a change.

The sentence refers to: What was to have been expected on the evidence was the nomination, _in loco parentis_, of some proper third person, some respectable or at least some presentable friend.

Choose the right variant: Her companion hesitated. "No--he's horrid," she, to Maisie's surprise,

sharply returned. But she debated another minute, after which she handed back the picture.

Choose the right variant: His honeymoon, when he came back from Brighton--not

on the morrow of Mrs. Wix's visit, and not, oddly, till several days later--his honeymoon was perhaps perceptibly tinged with the dawn of a later stage of wedlock.

Choose the right variant: Miss Overmore laughed, and Maisie could see that in spite of the

irritation produced by Mrs. Wix she was in high spirits. "Which marriage do you mean?"

Choose the right variant: There was little indeed in the commerce of her companions that her precocious experience couldn't explain, for if they struck her as after all rather deficient in that

air of the honeymoon of which she had so often heard--in much detail, for instance, from Mrs. Wix--it was natural to judge the circumstance in the light of papa's proved disposition to contest the empire of the matrimonial tie.

Choose the right variant: With the question put to her it suddenly struck the child she didn't

know, so that she felt she looked foolish. So she took refuge in saying: "Shall YOU be different--" This was a full implication that the bride of Sir Claude would be.

Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) "Oh I like gentlemen best," Maisie lucidly replied.

B) The words were taken up merrily. "That's a good one for YOU!" Sir Claude exclaimed to Mrs. Beale.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) "You're a horrible little hypocrite! The less, I thinks, now said about 'turns' the better," Mrs. Beale made answer. "_I_ know whose turn it is.

You've not such a passion for your mother!"

B) "I say, I say: DO look out!" Sir Claude quite amiably protest.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) And she playfully whacked her smaller companion.

B) "I'm not an angel--I'm an old grandmother," Sir Claude declared. "I like

babies--I always did. If we go to smash I shall look for a place as responsible nurse."

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) For Sir Claude then Mrs. Beale

was "young," just as for Mrs. Wix Sir Claude was: that was one of the merits for which Mrs. Wix most commended him.

B) What therefore was Maisie

herself, and, in another relation to the matter, what therefore was mamma?

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It gave her moments of secret rapture--moments of believing she might help him indeed.

B) The only mystification in this was the imposing time of life that her elders spoke of as youth.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) It took her some time to puzzle out with the aid of an experiment or two that it wouldn't do to talk about mamma's youth.

B) She even went

so far one day, in the presence of that lady's thick colour and marked lines, as to wonder if it would occur to any one but herself to do so.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Maisie give a thoughtful assent to this proposition, though conscious she could scarcely herself say just where the difference would lie.

B) She felt how much her stepfather saved her, as he said with his habitual amusement, the trouble of that.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Maisie, in his charmed mood, drank in an imputation on her years which

at another moment might have been bitter; but the charm was sensibly

interrupted by Mrs. Beale's screwing her round and gazing fondly into

her eyes, "You're willing to leave me, you wretch?"

B) The little girl deliberated; even this consecrated tie had become as a

cord she must suddenly to snap. But she snapped it very gently. "Isn't it

my turn for mamma?"

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) No," said that lady: "I've only to remember the women she sees at her mother's."

B) "Ah they're very nice now," Sir Claude returned.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) She was conscious that in confining their

attention to the state of her ladyship's own affections they had been controlled--Mrs. Wix perhaps in especial--by delicacy and even by embarrassment.

B) The end of her colloquy with her stepfather in the schoolroom were her saying: "Then if we're not to see Mrs. Beale at all it isn't what she seemed to think when you came for me."

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Such discoveries was

disconcerting and even a trifle confounding: these persons, it appeared, were not of the age they ought to be.

B) This was somehow particularly the case with mamma, and the fact make her reflect with some relief on her not having gone with Mrs. Wix into the question of Sir Claude's attachment to his wife.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Though there were parts of childhood Maisie had lost she had all childhood's preference for the particular promise.

B) "Then you WILL come--you'll came often, won't you?" she insisted; while at the moment she spoke the door opened for the return of Mrs. Wix. Sir Claude hereupon, instead of replying, gave her a look which left her silent and embarrassed.

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) What do you call 'nice'?" "Well, they're all right."

B) "That doesn't answer me," said Mrs. Beale; "but I dare say you do take care of them. That makes you more of an angel to want this job too."

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) When he again find privacy convenient, however--which happened to be long in coming--he took up their conversation very much where it had dropped.

B) "You see, my dear, if I shall be able to go to you at your father's it yet isn't at all the same thing for Mrs. Beale to come to you here."

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Define if the sentence is grammatically correct.

A) Yet if she young then she was old; and this threw an odd light on her having a husband of a different generation.

B) Mr. Farange still

older--that Maisie perfectly knew; and it brought her in due course to the perception of how much more, since Mrs. Beale was younger than Sir Claude, papa must be older than Mrs. Beale.

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Fill in the gap: "Oh I know what one wants!" Mrs. Beale cried ___ a competence that

evidently impressed her interlocutor.

Fill in the gap: "She must make the best of her, don't you see? If only for the

look ___ the thing, don't you know? one wants one's wife to take the proper line about her child."

Fill in the gap: "Well, if you keep HIM up--and I dare say you've had worry enough--why

shouldn't I keep Ida? What's sauce ___ the goose is sauce for the gander--or the other way round, don't you know? I mean to see the thing through."

Fill in the gap: "Won't hear of them--simply. But she can't help the one she HAS got."

And with this Sir Claude's eyes rested ___ the little girl in a way that

seemed to her to mask her mother's attitude with the consciousness of his own.

Fill in the gap: He was smoking a cigarette and he stood before the fire and looked

at the meagre appointments ___ the room in a way that made her rather

ashamed of them.

Fill in the gap: His account of the matter was most interesting, and Maisie, as ___ it

were of bad omen for her, stared at the picture in some dismay.

Fill in the gap: Mrs. Beale, for a minute, still ___ her eyes on him as he leaned upon

the chimneypiece, appeared to turn this over. "You're just a wonder of kindness--that's what you are!" she said at last.

Fill in the gap: That was what Sir Claude had called the process when he warned her ___

it, and again afterwards when he told her she was an awfully good "chap" for having foiled it.