The Mill on the Floss by E.F. DODD

New words:

1. mortgage (noun)

• a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
• the deed by which such a transaction is effected.
• the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.

     2.amend (verb)

•  to grow or become better by reforming oneself: He amends day by day .

     3.elope (verb)

• to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
• to run away with a lover.
• to leave without permission or notification; escape.

     4.warrant (verb)

• to give one's word for; vouch for (often used with a clause to emphasize something asserted): I'll warrant he did!

    5.cravat(noun)

• a wide, loose necktie, like a scarf.

    6.keel (noun)

• the underneath part of a boat.

    7.struggle (verb)

• to bring, put, etc., by struggling: She struggled the heavybox into a corner.

    8.clasp (verb)

• to fasten with or as with a clasp.
• to furnish with a clasp.

    9.refuge (noun)

• a place of shelter, protection, or safety.

    10.erect (verb)

• to build; construct; raise: to erect a house.

    11.forsake (verb)

• to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert

    12.glance (verb)

• to look quickly or briefly.

    13.dash (verb)

• to strike with violence

    14.wretch (noun)

• a deplorably unfortunate or unhappy person.

    15.cripple (noun)

• a person who is disabled or impaired in any way

    16.sob (verb)

• to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.

    17.novelty (adjective)

• having or displaying novelties

    18.prospect (verb)

• to search or explore .

    19.preceded (verb)

• to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance.

    20.distinct (adjective)

• different in nature or quality.

 Expensive sentences:

1. In their death they were not divided.
2. the keel of the boat reappeared—a black speck on the golden water.
3. It was visited at different moments by two men who both felt that their greatest joy were forever buried there.
4. The other man was always solitary.
5. She lay all night long in the gloomy bedroom of the old inn,lost between tears and exhausted slumber.
6. She fell asleep under star,lulled by the soft river noises around her.
7. But each day the danger increased;the time of realisation and reckoning came nearer.
8. They had enteredthe thorny wilderness.
9. But they clasped each other again in a last embrace.
10. Her anger and indignation.

Comment:

           After reading this story,the story is all talking about how a woman and a man become a couple.They love each other but with their parent's disagree they cannot become a couple.This show that they go  thorough  so many difficult to become a couple.