Here are some lines from the lesson. What do they tell us about Patol Babu's character? You may take help from the words given in the table below or find some of your own from the dictionary. The first one has been done for you

passionate actor

diligent

unassuming

talented

genial

mercenary

short-tempered

introvert

meticulous

modest

humble

arrogant

(a) That an offer to act in a film could come to a 52-year-old nonentity like him was beyond his wildest dreams—unassuming; modest

(b) Indeed, there was a time when people bought tickets especially to see him_______

(c) 'I was with Hudson and Kimberley for nine years and wasn't late for a single day.'

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(d) It didn't matter if the part was small, but, if he had to make the most of it, he had to learn his lines beforehand. How small he would feel if he muffed in the presence of so many people_

(e) Patol Babu cleared his throat and started enunciating the syllable in various ways.

Along with that he worked out how he would react physically when the collision took place--how his features would be twisted in pain, how he would fling out his

arms, how his body would crouch to express pain and surprise--all these he performed in various ways in front of a large glass window_

(f) It is true that he needed money very badly, but what was twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication? _______

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(b) Indeed, there was a time when people bought tickets especially to see him —talented

(c) 'I was with Hudson and Kimberley for nine years and wasn't late for a single day.' —

punctual

(d) It didn't matter if the part was small, but, if he had to make the most of it, he had to learn his lines beforehand. How small he would feel if he muffed in the presence of so many people—meticulous

(e) Patol Babu cleared his throat and started enunciating the syllable in various ways.

Along with that he worked out how he would react physically when the collision took place--how his features would be twisted in pain, how he would fling out his

arms, how his body would crouch to express pain and surprise--all these he performed in various ways in front of a large glass window—passionate actor

(f) It is true that he needed money very badly, but what was twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication? —humble

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Here are some lines from the lesson. What do they tell us about Patol Babu's character?

passionate actor	diligent	unassuming	talented
genial	mercenary	short-tempered	introvert
meticulous	modest	humble	arrogant

Patol Babu cleared his throat and started enunciating the syllable in various ways.

Along with that he worked out how he would react physically when the collision took place--how his features would be twisted in pain, how he would fling out his

arms, how his body would crouch to express pain and surprise--all these he performed in various ways in front of a large glass window_____________

Here are some lines from the lesson. What do they tell us about Patol Babu's character?

passionate actor	diligent	unassuming	talented
genial	mercenary	short-tempered	introvert
meticulous	modest	humble	arrogant

It didn't matter if the part was small, but, if he had to make the most of it, he had to learn his lines beforehand. How small he would feel if he muffed in the presence of so many people_____________

Here are some lines from the lesson. What do they tell us about Patol Babu's character?

passionate actor	diligent	unassuming	talented
genial	mercenary	short-tempered	introvert
meticulous	modest	humble	arrogant

'I was with Hudson and Kimberley for nine years and wasn't late for a single day.'

_____________

Here are some lines from the lesson. What do they tell us about Patol Babu's character?

passionate actor	diligent	unassuming	talented
genial	mercenary	short-tempered	introvert
meticulous	modest	humble	arrogant

It is true that he needed money very badly, but what was twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication? _____________

Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance. He never said a brilliant or even an ill-natured thing in his life. But then he was wonderfully good-looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes. He was as popular with men as he was with women, and he had every accomplishment except that of making money. His father had bequeathed him his cavalry sword, and a History of the Peninsular War in fifteen volumes. Hughie hung the first over his looking-glass, put the second on a shelf between Ruff's Guide and Bailey's Magazine, and lived on two hundred [pounds] a year that an old aunt allowed him. He had tried everything.

He had gone on the Stock Exchange for six months; but what was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears? He had been a tea-merchant for a little longer, but had soon tired of pekoe and souchong. Then he had tried selling dry sherry. That did not answer; the sherry was a little too dry. Ultimately he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession.

To make matters worse, he was in love. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired Colonel who had lost his temper and his digestion in India, and had never found either of them again. Laura adored him, and he was ready to kiss her shoe-strings. They were the handsomest couple in London, and had not a penny-piece between them. The Colonel was very fond of Hughie, but would not hear of any engagement.

'Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we will see about it,' he used to say; and Hughie looked very glum on those days, and had to go to Laura for consolation.

One morning, as he was on his way to Holland Park, where the Mertons lived, he dropped in to see a great friend of his, Alan Trevor. Trevor was a painter. Indeed, few people escape that nowadays. But he was also an artist, and artists are rather rare. Personally he was a strange rough fellow, with a freckled face and a red ragged beard. However, when he took up the brush he was a real master, and his pictures were eagerly sought after. He had been very much attracted by Hughie at first, it must be acknowledged, entirely on account of his personal charm.

'The only people a painter should know,' he used to say, 'are people who are bête and beautiful, people who are an artistic pleasure to look at and an intellectual repose to talk to. Men who are dandies and women who are darlings rule the world, at least they should do so.’ However, after he got to know Hughie better, he liked him quite as much for his bright, buoyant spirits and his generous, reckless nature, and had given him the permanent entrée to his studio.

Adapted from ‘The Model Millionaire’ by Oscar Wilde

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Why was Hughie Erskine’s sherry so unpopular?

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