F. R. Barratt The Sad Story of a Lost Memory

I had not noticed the man sitting beside me in the bus until he addressed me.

"Excuse me, sir," he said, "but is my face familiar to you by any chance?"

I turned and studied him for a second or two. I was able to assure him that he was an entire stranger to me. He did not seem at all surprised. "It was just a chance," he said. "You see, sir. I am under the disadvantage of not knowing who I am." "I have just returned from a voyage," he continued, "during the course of which I had the misfortune to lose my memory. I understand from received information that 1 was sitting one fine day on the deck of the ship, when suddenly the ship gave a lurch and I fell on to my head and was unconscious for three days. During this period all my possessions on the ship were stolen and all trace of my identity removed. Even the name of my tailor was cut out from the suit I was wearing. I didn't know anything about myself and I was unknown to any of my fellow-passengers. Everyone agreed

that there was only one possible remedy, namely, that I should receive another violent blow on the head, which would, as all the authorities say, restore my memory to its former state.

The idea was taken up enthusiastically, and I gladly admitted that all the ship's crew and also the passengers did what they could for me in this respect. It became quite customary for everyone who met me to hit me playfully over the head with all possible weapons. With all these helps I received a great many blows on the head,

but my memory stubbornly refused to return." The stranger paused in his recital.

I raised my walking stick. "This is but a poor weapon, I'm afraid," I said. "Still, any little service I can render..." "No, no," said the stranger hurriedly, "the time for that is past. I am now gathering funds to enable me to prosecute inquiries at the port from which the boat sailed, and should you, kind sir..."

Additional exercises

Exercise 1.

Read the joke. Mind the use of prepositions after verbs.

What a Language!

"What a language English is!" a Frenchman exclaimed in despair. "I once called on an English friend and the maid who came to the door said, 'He's not up yet. Come back in half an hour.' "

"When I came again, she was setting the table for breakfast and said, 'He's not down yet.'"

"I asked: 'If he's not up and he's not down, where is he?'" "She said, 'He's still in bed. When I say 'He's not up', I mean he has not yet got up; when I say, 'He's not down', I mean he has not yet come downstairs!' "

Exercise 2.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind different meanings of the verb TO HAVE.

a) 1. I have no pencil.

2. You have no other way out.

3. His face had that small subtle smile that was characteristic of him.

4. There were two saucers only. And all the rest to match: seven large brown teapots, of which five had broken spouts.

5. I won't have you all starve, simply because I've thrown myself at your head.

6. He came to her swiftly, and in a moment had her in his arms.

7. Oh, to have this happen when he was right at the point of a declaration.

8. Jack whipped his coat off and went to the shed for wood and coal, and soon had a lavish fire in the open hearth.

9. Have some more cake!

10. I won't have you do this sort of thing.

b) 11. I cannot have my clients disturbed in the middle of the night.

12. They had a gin and a tonic, Ashe doing most of the talking.

13. I'd be more likely to remember that I'm working for doctor Page if I had my month's salary.

14. "Her name," the woman went on, "is Anita. I was sick when I had her," she explained as if to excuse dancing with Mrs Hamlyn. "I'm for democracy, and I think they're very sensible to keep themselves to themselves."

15. I can work, can't I? I can get a job at Payne and Perkins. They'll be glad to have me.

16. The cad had had his warning. Now let him take what was coming to him.

17. I had him here just now asking for details.

18. "What will you have?" "Oh, I don't want anything. I had a cocktail and a tremendous lunch."

19. "Where is he — your son?" "Up in his father's studio, I think." "Perhaps you'd have him down."

20. I had your father here yesterday afternoon, who made further valuable suggestions.

Exercise 3.

Translate the following sentences. Make up sentences of your own using phrases in italics.

1. But now they felt it time to have things out with her.

2. Because of the radio Catherine and I had words one afternoon.

3. You've had a lucky escape.

4. Ned Preston certainly had a way with him. Perhaps Mrs Carter was impressed because he was a gentleman.

5. He had an eye for everything and he wouldn't put up with any nonsense.

6. She was not only having a good time herself, but she was trying to give all of them a good time.

7. She must have had a bad fright.

8. I'd had a bad shock.

9. If I do the thing, I will do it thoroughly but I must have a free hand.

10. I am so nervous. I must have a smoke.

Exercise 4.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Comment on the meaning of the phrases with TO HAVE.

1. But he had a feeling that a suggestion floated in the air that a clever writer could do his country a good turn.

2. He had an uneasy suspicion, that they read too much of his thoughts.

3. "You can have every confidence in me," said Ashen-den.

4. Perhaps she had asked him only because she had had a sudden yearning, she the exile of so many years, to die with someone of her own people.

5. He knew that R. had a great belief in waiters; they had the chance of seeing so much and could so easily get into places where information was lying about to be picked up.

6. She had a knowledge of modern painting and modern music that not a little impressed Ashenden.

7. I had a feeling that at last she had made up her mind.

8. After twenty years of a French wife Soames had still little sympathy with her language.

9. But they really had words.

10. Sorry, I must have a word or two with you in private.

Exercise 5.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the meaning of the verbs TO TALK, TO SPEAK, TO THINK used as transitive ones.

1. Will was talking common sense.

2. "Oh, shut up!" she cried, feeling a momentary intense relief at being able tospeak her feelings.

3. She loved horses and talked horses constantly.

4. I should not write those words. I should not even think them.

5. Alex talked riddles.

6. He disliked talking business with her.

7. The truth at last. Talking love and thinking money.

8. Melly and he were always talking such foolishness, poetry, and books and dreams and moonrays and star dust.

9. He was confused and spoke his thoughts as they came to him.

10. Think practical thoughts, will you?

Exercise 6.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the meanings of the verb TO SHOW.

1. Show me your hands.

2. Is he showing any strain?

3. He wanted to know what movie was showing on the flight. He said, could I get him another flight which was showing the same movie as the first one?

4. The little old lady sat comfortably relaxed, hands folded daintily in her lap, a wisp of lace handkerchief showing between them.

5. The effect of sleepless nights showed quickly in his work.

6. The priest opened the doors, and they showed again the front garden of evergreens and all.

7. You've seen pictures of the clothes worn in Victorian times, haven't you? Skirts right down to the ground, not even the ankles showing?

8. As before, it took several minutes for Cindy to come to the telephone, and when she did, surprisingly, there was none of the fire she had shown during their previous conversation, only an icy chill.

9. Warren Trent walked stiffly into the bathroom now, pausing before a wall-width mirror to inspect the shave. He could find no fault with it as he studied the reflection facing him. It showed a deep-seamed, craggy face.

10. The house was very pretty, and beautifully built. But it showed all signs of the eleven children.

Exercise 7.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the meanings of the verb TO LOOK.

1. Don't look at him.

2. I know I'm looking like hell.

3. It looks like rain.

4. Elliott in his well-cut dinner jacket looked elegant as he alone could look.

5. He was a very learned man, but he didn't look it any more than he looked like my idea of a monk.

6. You don't look an old man.

7. She looks 20.

8. Jerry looks his age.

9. He looks rather suspicious.

10. Does he always look this way?

Exercise 8.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the meanings of the verb TO FEEL.

1. How do you feel?

2. I felt her trembling.

3. I'm not feeling well.

4. Feel the cloth. It's very soft.

5. You must feel very cold.

6. It didn't feel right — a dentist's room without some stained glass.

7. It felt just as it did at school when a bully I had been afraid of was turned out.

8. It feels like someone kisses me there.

9. There are moments when it gives you confidence to feel your fingers round the butt of a revolver.

10. His lips felt dry.

Exercise 9.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the use of the word TASTE and its derivatives.

1. Taste the soup, please.

2. Nothing can possibly taste as heavenly as that.

3. "It tastes divine," said Isabel. "It's like mother's milk. I've never tasted anything so good."

4.That stuffing's going to taste good.

5. This cake is not to my taste.

6. She is a tasteful lady.

7. Tastes differ.

8. I can never understand her refined taste.

9. This fruit has a very unusual taste.

10. There is no accounting for tastes.

Exercise 10.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the use of the infinitive as an adverbial modifier of attendant circumstances.

1. Startled, he looked up to find her smiling.

2. She swung the chair around to face Mel's.

3. The door opened to reveal Albert Wells.

4. I was having a wash and a brush-up before starting out to go to the luncheon Elliott had invited me to, when they rang up from the desk to say that he was below.

5. The first time he had waked to feel the bed shaking with her sobbing, he had questioned, in alarm: "Dear, what is it?"

6. I could only rush out in time to find the wall splashed and the shop empty.

7. And then crassly, stupidly, you blunder in to announce you left your cigarettes in the car.

8. At last he got away, only to find that nothing was known of Coral at the hotel.

9. Matthew swung round to see, descending the steps like a Caesar among the legionaries, Herman Wohlgemutt.

10. He returned to find Ruddock in the step.

Exercise 11.

Change the following sentences according to the model.

Model: It's kind of you to let me come with you. You are kind to let me come with you.

a) 1. It was nice of you to think of it.

2. It's silly of you to take it to heart.

3. He was aware that it was rude of him to refuse the invitation like that.

4. I believe it is unfair of you to speak so about your sister.

5. It's awful of you to treat your guest like this, I'm sure.

6. It is mean of her to throw the reproach in his face.

7. I know it's foolish of me to let myself go like this.

8. It's kind of you to forgive me.

9. It would be uppish of me to put it that way, wouldn't it?

10. It was awful of me not to remember her birthday.

b) 1. How quick of you to notice!

2. "But it's wrong of her to trust us, isn't it?" said Randall eagerly.

3. How especially sweet of you to pity my abandoned state.

4. We think it's very clever of you to have got up there.

5. She asked herself whether it would not have been wiser of her to pocket her pride and shut her eyes to the unwelcome truth.

6. I don't think that's necessary, John, though it was nice of you to take me out.

7. It was sweet of you to see me home.

8. It would have been stupid of her to pay a penny more than she had to.

9. You've read the letter. It was mad of me to write it. It was right of you to tell me.

10. I think it's really rude of you to say a thing like that.

Exercise 12.

Find a predicate in the following sentences and translate them into Ukrainian.

a) 1. She was proud to think that with her as a model he had made his first real success.

2. He was relieved to see that the first of the two extra trucks had arrived.

3. I was taken aback to find Edna's secretary at her desk.

4. The artist had been quick to see that there was something modern and amusing in her proportions.

5. I was startled to hear him speak quite loudly.

6. I've been crazy to meet you.

7. She was impatient now to make the next call.

8. They never spoke alone and she was desperate to question him.

9. For long, ever since he had regained his health, Gray had been impatient to go back to America and get to work again.

10. Matthew was surprised to see both faces very faintly cloud over.

b) 1. Dorothy, like a good many bad-tempered people, was quick to forgive affronts, so that she could start giving and receiving them again.

2. Maisie was careful not to reopen debatable matters, and they returned to London joyously.

3. She noticed that he was looking disturbed, and was careful not to speak to him.

4. She was interested to see how very disagreeable and ill-dressed many of the women visitors seemed.

5. In Austria we've been slow to recognise this in our ideological struggle.

6. Aggressive imperialist quarters were quick to notice this and they like it.

7. Then she was amazed to find herself tearful.

8. But he was shocked to find, now that it was suddenly released, how much sheer animosity he had in him against his young mistress.

9. Perhaps Douglas had been right to say that goodness was a state of unconsciousness.

10. She was frightened and a little shocked to find herself think in this way.

c) 1. Ann was surprised to find how hard it was to bring herself to do so.

2. She grieved to find herself regarding Miranda's presence in the house as almost menacing.

3. Ann had been shocked and indeed, frightened, to hear from Nancy Bowshott that Miranda had broken all her dolls.

4. He was sorry to have seen his father ineffectual, frightened, resigned.

5. Ann was surprised to discover that even in the midst of the acute pain she was suffering she did continue to think about Felix.

6. I was surprised to see him last night.

7. Yossarian was disappointed to learn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting than the lives of officers.

8. I was somewhat taken aback to find so many people in the hall in which I was to speak.

9. I was more than a little intimidated to see a number of middle-aged and elderly persons, some of whom I suspected were members of the faculty.

10. I guess he was surprised to see Riley's car, and surprised to find me in it.

Exercise 13.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the use of compound verbal predicates.

a) 1. I seem to know the play well enough.

2. Her name appeared to be Millicent Pole.

3. We happen to know that you came away with a woman.

4. Shakespeare seems to be reaching across the language barriers.

5. The garden, dissolved in granular points of colour by the intense evening light,seemed to quiver quietly before them.

6. Her hair seemed to have dried and stiffened into an iron-grey frizz.

7. She seemed to be saying that all the time now.

8. Emma seemed to be convinced.

9. The continuing dispute appeared yesterday tо be as far from resolution as ever.

10. A sweet herbal scent seemed to emanate from the old velvet hangings.

b) 1. She seemed tо be trying to frame some important request.

2. They appeared to have a great deal to say to one another.

3. The rain seemed to be abating a little.

4. They seemed to be letters.

5. The trouble is the audiences don't seem to like tо think.

6. Dolly, for her part, appeared to be at ease and ejoying his company.

7. They seemed to be discussing a possible new landing-stage.

8. Do you happen to know who that man is?

9. She dwindled, appeared for the first time to question her boldness.

10. "Sex and violence seem to pay at the box-office, and therefore sex and violence abound in the theatre," — said Mr Brown.

Exercise 14.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Point out predicates in the sentences.

1. Не frightened this man Ridvers into agreeing to pay the claim for damages.

2. "Who on earth"— Inigo began, but was immediately kicked into silence.

3. His look disturbed her to knowledge of him.

4. The unfortunate boy had not only been cheated of the love he thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honour and glory on the field of battle.

5. Scarlett was reproved into silence.

6. Flambeau seemed suddenly galvanised into existence.

7. He would not, he told himself, be goaded into losing control.

8. "Your what?" I said, startled out of my politeness.

9. She teased him into excitement and then snubbed him for being rough.

10. I felt somewhat discouraged into silence.

Exercise 15.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the meaning of the phrases in italics.

1. Не heard me clatter down the wooden staircase.

2. And Colonel Cathcart had roared away as abruptly as he'd come, whipping the jeep around with a vicious spinning of wheels.

3. She staggered blindly into the street.

4. The young men sparkled down the skislopes like lovely little aeroplanes caught in the sun.

5. Cooper flushed, did not for a moment know what to say or do, turned on his heel, and stumbled out of the room.

6. Each plane purred loudly along the runways.

7. She stormed up the stairs.

8. So I decided to pedal down to the station.

9. Jackie rushed out of the room without looking at anyone.

10. How could she have fallen out of love with him so quickly?

Exercise 16.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind predicative constructions with verbals.

a) 1. I was anxious to get him to continue.

2. For a second, obscurely, he found himself envying Randall.

3. Penn found himself wondering if it wouldn't be a good plan, if it would not perhaps further his cause, if he were to give Miranda a hard slap one of these days.

4. She was even more surprised to find herself invigorated by, positively enjoying, the atmosphere of relaxed drama which surrounded Emma.

5. I tried to get him to talk, but he kept looking at me in a funny sort of way.

6. A tremor of sheer horror passed over Andrew at the thought of his beautiful career suddenly cut short, ruined.

7. I'm sure Miss Dolly would be pleased to have you join us.

8. She sat wondering however she'd come to marry a bloody fool who got himself sent to jail.

9. I can't have you faint in the street.

10. I hope it doesn't upset you my coming like this.

b) 1. It was like having a government inspector in the house.

2. People sometimes accused her of asking husbands more often than wives, but she defended herself by saying that she couldn't possibly help it because more men were husbands than women were wives.

3. Part of his time in London had doubtless been devoted, unsuccessfully, to getting one of these plays put on.

4. She wasn't a girl to show much emotion.

5. There are still many fundamental problems to be solved in this area.

6. He took it from his pocket and held it out for us to see.

7. We must know our position to defend it.

8. Am I an idiot to want such a thing?

9. Riley beckoned for me to come with him.

10. Catherine, snoring with abandon, did not hear us go.

c) 1. I don't know that it was funny, but I laughed to keep him company.

2. I stood watching Riley unconcernedly propel himself to and fro between the banks.

3. Most people don't believe it when I tell about catching a cat-fish barehanded.

4. I heard Catherine scream: roar, rather.

5. She regretted not having visited there before.

6. He thought he'd failed us in not preventing what had happened to Catherine.

7. Still she behaved as though she hadn't expected to be kissed good night.

8. He got the impression that he was being edged out of their conversation, as though he were a child who was expected to sit still and not interrupt while his elders talked of things over his head.

9. After all, he had a car that was supposed to have cost three thousand dollars.

10. But it was too early for anyone much to be about.

d) 1. I want you to tell her what I said: go home.

2. She confessed to having invited some boys over to listen to the radio and dance.

3. I'll thank you to leave us.

4. Only don't count on me to lift a finger.

5. He couldn't get Dolly to root for any team.

6. The Judge presented himself at the garden gate and whistled for me to let him in.

7. I want you to behave, Rusty.

8. He was not going to have his son made a bloody snob of.

9. With this there came back to her that sensation of being encompassed and plotted against with which she had first met the news of Emma's coming.

10. Now I won't have you saying things I don't understand.

Exercise 17.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the use of the verbs TO CONTINUE, TO ALLOW, TO FORBID.

a) 1. No matter how competent McDermott might be, it was unlikely that he would continue under a new regime.

2. She continued bright through the day.

3. If we're to continue our separate ways, at least we should remain friends.

4. Some, both men and women, were sitting forward in their chairs, striving not to miss any words as he paused as aircraft continued overhead.

5. Miranda had so far continued firmly in the faith of her mother.

6. After his noisy argumentative affectionate family it seemed to him scarcely credible that two married people could continue on such terms, being so cold and mysterious to each other and so silent.

7. Hugh must not be allowed his crime.

8. Witnesses are not allowed in the court-room to hear testimony preceding theirs.

9. There should be a law against that truck. A broken-down pile like that, it oughtn't to be allowed.

10. Marie had emphatically forbidden any more cigars in bed.

b) 1. You're not allowed on the bridge unless you have the captain's invitation.

2. But he was allowed no more time for reflection.

her child's delicacy.

3. Many households have two, or even three, newspapers every day.

4. Women's clothes today have plenty of colour.

5. Isabel, when she awoke, sometimes told Antoinette to take her coffee into her mother's room so that she could talk to her while she had it.

6. "I've had a letter from Sarah," he said.

7. I wrote her as though I were still that boy, told her of the gun I'd got for Christmas, how the dog had had pups and what we'd named them.

8. He had me around the waist.

9. Then the dance began. The second-class passengers stood about shyly round the part of the deck reserved for dancing and occasionally danced with one another. "I'm glad we had them," said the consul.

10. He had the letter posted only yesterday.

Exercise 18.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the translation of the verb TO BE in different combinations.

1. Не is not a young man.

2. His desk is in the middle of the room.

3. A real hotel is for hospitality.

4. The 't' was for Tanya — Tanya Livingston, a special friend of Mel's.

5. I've been to London twice.

6. "Tell me about the others in your family." "There are Hans and Peter, the twins." "I suppose Hans and Peter are at school." "Yes; and the house is much quieter when they are at school than when they are at home."

7. Stay where you are. Don't move!

8. Her family had been in Gibbsville a lot longer than the great majority of the people who lived in Lantenengo Street.

9. Since it was Friday night, the beginning of a weekend, most were casually dressed, though exceptions were half a dozen visitors from outside the community and several press reporters.

10. The Douro region is where port-wine comes from.

Exercise 19.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the translation of the link- verb TO BE.

1. Не was mute a moment, and then said...

2. Leamas was lost.

3. Suddenly the voices in the next room were still, and I looked at the door.

4. Frank was speechless.

5. When she told him the truth, he was furious.

6. Her heart was suddenly dull with pain, with weariness.

7. Suddenly there was a seriousness to Inez Guerrero's speech which had not been there before.

8. Were all of them dead?

9. Then there were more lights only a few yards behind as another flight landed, it seemed at the same instant.

10. At the sound of the words he was momentarily young again.

Exercise 20.

Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian. Mind the translation of the combination TO BE + noun.

1. John is a strong believer in fresh air.

2. My folks are great readers of newspapers.

3. We're neither of us great letter-writers.

4. Dr Saunders was an early riser.

5. The skipper was a bad loser. His face was set and hard. His

shifty eyes glanced at each card he turned up with a sneering look.

6. The children enjoy the warm weather. I saw seven or eight of them in the river after school. Most of them were good swimmers.

7. He was a good talker if only you could keep him off the subject of dukes and duchesses.

8. I am a poor and dilatory correspondent, and Isabel was no letter-writer.

9. But I am a wine drinker... you don't know how I long for wine.

10. Mr Harrington was an after-dinner speaker and had read all the best books on speaking in public.