The Man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (adapted excerpt)
At eleven Edward arrived, and while his wife was saying "I am so glad you've come!" he was saying, "I am so tired-tired clear out: it is
dreadful to be poor, and have to make these dismal journeys at my time of life. Always at the grind, grind, grind, on a salary, and he sitting at
home in his slippers, rich and comfortable."
"I am so sorry for you, Edward, you know that; but be comforted; we have our livelihood; we have our good name="
"Yes, Mary, and that is everything. Don't mind my talk-it's just a moment's irritation and doesn't mean anything. Kiss me—there, it's all gone
now, and I am not complaining any more. What have you been getting? What's in the sack?"
Then his wife told him the great secret. It dazed him for a moment; then he said: "It weighs a hundred and sixty pounds?
Why, Mary. it's forty thousand dollars—think of it-a whole fortune! Not ten men in this village are worth that much. Give me the paper." He
skimmed through it and said: "Isn't it an adventure! Why, it's a romance; it's like the impossible things one reads about in books, and never
sees in life." He was well stirred up now, cheerful, even gleeful. He tapped his old wife on the cheek, and said humorously, "Why, we're rich,
Mary, rich; all we've got to do is to bury the money and burn the papers. If the gambler ever comes to inquire, we'll merely look coldly upon
him and say: "What is this nonsense you are talking? We have never heard of you and your sack of gold before;" and then he would look
foolish, and"

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

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Ineed . i need to write a story with this words. vapid, reverie, chastity, petty, invariably, posterity, axiom, pugnacious, bourgeoisie, knell