"But we head it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way. "We heard it from three
people, so it must be true.”
Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged. The fact that gossip had published
the banns was one of the reasons I had come East. You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and
on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage,
Daisy's insistence that the rumor of Nick's engagement is true despite his denial suggests a conflict between

You are moving out of town and you are planning to sell your recently bought bicycle. draft a classified advertisement including the description of the bicycle, cost and other necessary details. about 50 words.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

Create three sentences describing a chore, each using comparison forms for these irregular words. good bad