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63 About this deal
Sire,” returned the vizir. “Whatever the cost, I will obey you. Though a father, I am also your subject.” So the Sultan told the grand-vizir he might bring his daughter as soon as he liked.
Though the pair wore survival suits and the weather at the spot where they ditched was clear, one Antarctic explorer told Mr Brooks’ wife it was “nothing short of a miracle” that they had survived. Although I knew there was a lot of truth in what she said I resisted her arguments: I suppose I was both appalled and frightened by her fatalism. When I was twelve I started at the secondary school in the town a few miles away. During term-time I stayed with my uncle, returning to the village only during the vacations. Veronica and I remained friendly, and she was always pleased to see me, and when we could we snatched time together by the stream and she asked me endless questions about my school and the town and what I was going to be when I grew up. But for all the misery of her own life she never seemed to envy me mine.
Below him I could see thousands of feet of open face falling into the eastern glacier bay. I watched him quite dispassionately. I couldn’t help him, and it occurred to me that in all likelihood he would fall to his death. I wasn’t disturbed by the 70 thought. In a way I hoped he would fall. I knew I couldn’t leave him while he was still fighting for it, but I had no idea how I might help him. I could get down. If I tried to get him down I might die with him. It didn’t frighten me. It just seemed a waste. It would be pointless. I kept staring at him, expecting him to fall … During the short drive home, my heart was full of dread and I wondered what I 20 had done wrong. Our car stopped at an elegant villa at mid-level, halfway up the hill between the peak and the harbour. Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Language Students must study all texts in Section A in preparation for paper 1. Copies of the anthology must not be taken into the examination, the anthology text set for the paper will be reprinted on the examination paper.
Veronica We had grown up together in my native village. Her family had been even poorer than mine, which was saying something in those days. Her father was a brute and her mother was weak, and since she was the eldest child a lot of the responsibility for bringing up the other children had fallen on her. From time to time I helped her out, but there was little I could do. Her father was a morbidly suspicious man. Visitors, apart from his drinking companions, were not encouraged, and I had no desire to be the cause of even more misery. I helped her fetch water from the stream and occasionally chopped firewood, but that was all. Night after night I would lie awake listening to her screams, cursing myself for my own physical inadequacy and my father for his unwillingness to become involved. 10 Students following Route 2 (Edexcel-approved teaching institutions only) will need to produce a coursework assignment responding to at least three poems in detail from Section C of this anthology. They must also refer to a further three poems which do not have to be from the anthology. To prepare for this they should study all the poems in Section C.A spokesman for the pair said it was not known what had gone wrong. The flying conditions had been “excellent”. Students following Route 1 (100 per cent assessment) will be set three questions and they must answer one. Two of the questions set will be on poems studied in Section C. Copies of this anthology must not be taken into the examination, all the anthology poems will be reprinted for the examination paper in a separate booklet.
She was not convinced. ‘No. …There’s nothing so humiliating as to look poor when you’re with women who are rich.’
From September 2022, digital versions of our current poetry collection for Love and Relationships (8702/B/1) and Power and Conflict (8702/B/2), and also our new poetry cluster World and Lives (8702/B/3) are available on Centre Services. You can teach Worlds and Lives(8702/B/3) from 2023 onwards and the first exam will be in 2025. Then listen,” said Scheherazade. “I am determined to stop this barbarous practice 40 of the Sultan’s, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them.”
He looked radiant. For once, he was proud of me. In front of his revered colleague, C.Y. Tung, a prominent fellow businessman also from Shanghai, I had given him face. I thought, Is this the big moment I have been waiting for? My whole 60 being vibrated with all the joy in the world. I only had to stretch out my hand to reach the stars. Please, Father,’ I asked boldly, thinking it was now or never. ‘May I go to university in England too, just like my brothers?’ The grand-vizir himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder was 30 called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade. Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree. Her father had given her the best masters in philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia. Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again. Eight weeks more and it would be the end of term … in my case perhaps the end of school forever. She did not open the case, as her friend had feared she might. If she had noticed the substitution, what would she have thought? What would she have said? Would she not have concluded she was a thief?The narwhal rarely stray from High Arctic waters, escaping only to the slightly more temperate waters towards the Arctic Circle in the dead of winter, but never entering the warmer southern seas. In summer the hunters of Thule are fortunate to witness the annual return of the narwhal to the Inglefield Fjord, on the side of which we now sat. A wave of nausea surged over me. I pressed my face into the snow, and the sharp cold seemed to calm me. Something terrible, something dark with dread occurred to 20 me, and as I thought about it I felt the dark thought break into panic: ‘I’ve broken my leg, that’s it. I’m dead. Everyone said it … if there’s just two of you a broken ankle could turn into a death sentence … if it’s broken … if … It doesn’t hurt so much, maybe I’ve just ripped something.’ The day of the reception drew near and Madame Loisel appeared sad, worried, anxious. Yet all her clothes were ready. One evening her husband said: ‘What’s up? You haven’t half been acting funny these last few days.’ She dressed simply, being unable to afford anything better, but she was every whit as unhappy as any daughter of good family who has come down in the world. Women have neither rank nor class, and their beauty, grace, and charm do service for birthright and connections. Natural guile, instinctive elegance, and adaptability are what determines their place in the hierarchy, and a girl of no birth to speak of 10 may easily be the equal of any society lady. Experts questioned the wisdom of taking a small helicopter — the four-seater Robinson R44 has a single engine — into such a hostile environment.
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