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Answer» Choose
extracts from the story that illustrate the character of the people
listed in the table given below. There are some words given to help
you. You may add words of your own. One has been done as an example:
vain
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jealous
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competitive
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shrewd
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manipulative
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stingy
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materialistic
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spiteful
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Character
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Extract from the
story
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What this tells
us about the character
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Mrs. Packletide
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The
compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps
of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been
carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and
talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and
a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter
that sort of thing
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Competitive
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Mrs.
Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of
shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion,
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Mrs.
Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured
fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the
illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya.
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Louisa Mebbin
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"If
it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand
rupees is a lot of money."
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Louisa
Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money
in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination
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"How
amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened,"
said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.
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Louisa
Mebbin's pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les
Fauves," and gay in summer-time with its garden
borders of tiger-lilies, is the wonder and
admiration of her friends
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Loona Bimberton
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As
for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper
for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw
brooch was a model of
repressed emotions
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there are
limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous.
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