The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Message de weena posté le 26-04-2005 à 22:16:12 (S | E | F | I)
Hi everybody!

Here is a little but intersting exercise.

Try to put this story back into the right order.

1. "They are moved by a story I have been telling them. We are having a history lesson," said Miss Brodie, catching a falling leaf neatly in her hand as she spoke.

2. The story of Miss Brodie's felled fiancé was well on its way when the headmistress, Miss Mackay, was seen to approach across the lawn. Tears had already started to drop from Sandy's little pig-like eyes and Sandy's tears now affected her friend Jenny. (...)

3. "If anyone comes along," said Miss Brodie, "in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I am now." (...)
She leaned against the elm. (...)

4. "Crying over a story at ten yaers of age!" said Miss Mackay (...). "I am only come to see you and I must be off. Well, girls, the new term has begun. I hope you all had a splendid summer holiday and I look forward to seeing your splendid assays on how you spent them. You shouldn't be crying over history at the age of ten. My word!"

5. "I am come to see you and I have to be off," (said Miss Mackay). "What are you little girls crying for?"

6. "I was engaged to a young man at the beginning of the War (1) but he fell on Flanders' Field (2), sais Miss Brodie. (...) "He fell the week before Armistice was declared. (...) He was poor. He came from Ayrshire, a countryman, but a hard-working and clever scholar." (...)

From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark (1961)

(1) The War = WWI
(2) Flanders' Field = La bataille des Flandres.

I hope you'll enjoy it!

The answer on Sunday evening.

See you


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Edité par weena le 27-04-2005 13:52