Crabbe Tells His Sad Story

to arrive; to find one's friend greatly changed for the worse; far from well; to hear smb out; to get a degree; to settle down; to set up; to complain; to have a bad time; financial difficulties; impossible to make both ends meet; to have trouble; to turn to smb for advice; to come to smb's rescue; a quick mind; to suggest; to get up an incident; to get smb's name into the papers; to be the making of

Crabbe Thinks of a Plan But Keeps It to Himself

to be unable to get a word out of smb as to his intentions; first (sec­ond, etc.) stoppage; the boathouse; the tavern; the chemist's; to in­quire about the terms of boat hire (whether smb keeps beds, a galvanic battery); to disappoint smb; to be satisfied with the information re­ceived; to set off in the opposite direction; to head for home

The Friends Prepare foi Zero Hour

to agree to risk one's life for one's friend's sake; to move to a hotel; to wake up; to swallow a cup of coffee; to set out; to catch sight of smb; to pass smb without sign of recognition; to hire a boat; to have smb row; to make an attempt to get hold of the oars; to pay no attention to the cry of warning; to insist; to lose balance; a sharp, melodramatic cry; to fall over into the water; to wish; not a pleasant feeling; to have the water close over one's head; to strike the bottom with one's feet; to shoot up to the surface; to imitate an accident; to be oversuccessful

The Boatman Does His Bit

to be caught by surprise; not to expect smth to occur; to keep one's head; to show presence of mind; to act quickly; without a fuss; to be used to dealing with such situations, to rescue smb; to hit smb a pain­ful blow on the head; to seize by the hair; to drag smb to land; to have no suspicions

Crabbe Steps in

to turn up; to offer one's help; to introduce oneself; a physician; to inquire what has occurred; to give instructions that ,..; to insist; except for a dozen of the most respectable townspeople; to give smb a quick examination; to make an attempt to bring smb back to life; to try Marshall Hill's treatment; to push smb about; in a rough man­ner; to express one's fears; impossible to cure; a hopeless case; to be through with smb; to be up to the police; to get rid of the corpse

Crabbe Decides to Try His Own Method

to occur to smb; a possible hope; not to be put off by failure; to in­tend; to try electricity; to hesitate; to be doubtful that …; to have smb fetch a galvanic battery; the first to use electricity for this purpose, to warn; to produce surprising effects; harmless; to send a strong cur­rent through smb's body; to give smb a terrible shock; to add greatly to smb's suffering; extremely painful

The Treatment is Effective

the patient; to be unable to stand the pain; to give a loud cry; to jump out of bed; to lose one's temper; to suspect; to do smth on pur­pose; to shake one's fist in smb's face.

Crabbe; to calm smb; presence of mind; to save the situation; to explain; a miracle; to develop dangerous symptoms; to need rest; to lead the patient to the cab; to keep repeating one's name and address

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1175