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Question 1

1

Answer 1

Yes - and I’ll miss her.

Question 2

2

Answer 2

I can see how he feels.

Question 3

3

Answer 3

I know that too, Andy.

Question 4

4

Answer 4

Let’s not think about it - ‘till afterward. It’ll only ruin this last night if we do.

Question 5

5.1

Answer 5

It’s just as hard for me, Andy - believe that!

Question 6

5.2

Answer 6

I hate to leave you and the old folks - but - I feel I’ve got to.

Question 7

5.3

Answer 7

There’s something calling me - calling to me from over there, beyond-and I feel as if no matter what happens - Oh I just can’t explain it to you Andy!

Question 8

6

Answer 8

It’s fine of you to feel that way.

Question 9

7.1

Answer 9

All of you seem to keep harping on my health.

Question 10

7.2

Answer 10

You were so used to seeing me lying around the house in the old days that you never will get over the notion that I’m a chronic invalid, and have to be looked after like a baby all the time, or wheeled round in a chair like Mrs. Atkins.

Question 11

7.3

Answer 11

You don’t realize how I’ve bucked up in the past few years.

Question 12

7.4

Answer 12

Why, I bet right now I’m just as healthy as you are—I mean just as sound in wind and limb; and if I was staying on at the farm, I’d prove it to you.

Question 13

7.5

Answer 13

You’re suffering from a fixed idea about my delicateness—and so are Pa and Ma. Every time I’ve offered to help, Pa has stared at me as if he thought I was contemplating suicide.

Question 14

8

Answer 14

If I had no other excuse for going on Uncle Dick’s ship but just my health, I’d stay right here and start in plowing.

Question 15

9.1

Answer 15

Yes, I suppose it is. I’ve tried to take an interest but—well, you’re the Mayo branch of the family, and I take after Ma and Uncle Dick.

Question 16

9.2

Answer 16

It’s natural enough when you come to think of it. The Mayos have been farmers from way back, while the Scotts have been mostly sea-faring folks, with a school teacher thrown in now and then on the woman’s side—just as Ma was before her marriage.

Question 17

10.1

Answer 17

The farm has claimed her in spite of herself.

Question 18

10.2

Answer 18

That’s what I’m afraid it might do to me in time; and that’s why I feel I ought to get away.

Question 19

10.3

Answer 19

You musn’t misunderstand me, Andy. For you it’s a different thing. You’re a Mayo through and through. You’re wedded to the soil. You’re as much a product of it as an ear of corn is, or a tree.

Question 20

10.4

Answer 20

Father is the same. This farm is his life-work, and he’s happy in knowing that another Mayo, inspired by the same love, will take up the work where he leaves off.

Question 21

10.5

Answer 21

I can understand your attitude, and Pa’s; and I think it’s wonderful and sincere. But I—well, I’m not made that way.

Question 22

11

Answer 22

I wonder if you do, really.

Question 23

12

Answer 23

It’s more than that, Andy. TWICE

Question 24

13

Answer 24

I’ve never considered that practical side of it for a minute, Andy. That’s the truth.

Question 25

14.1

Answer 25

No, I oughtn’t. You’re trying to wish an eye-for-business on me I don’t possess.

Question 26

14.2

Answer 26

Supposing I was to tell you that it’s just Beauty that’s calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East, which lures me in the books I’ve read.

Question 27

14.3

Answer 27

The need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on—in quest of the secret which is hidden just over there, beyond the horizon. Suppose I told you that was the one and only reason for my going?

Question 28

15

Answer 28

Then I must be - because it’s so.

Question 29

16

Answer 29

Don’t, Andy. I’m serious.

Question 30

17

Answer 30

It’s no use talking to you, you chump!

Question 31

18

Answer 31

And Ruth.

Question 32

19

Answer 32

Wait a minute, Andy! There is something I want to -

Question 33

20

Answer 33

No - never mind - it doesn’t matter, it was nothing.

Question 34

20

Answer 34

Yes