Browning- My last Duchess

not having a profession but

expressions not used useful expressions of having an income. In

anymore composing a text American today G.is

synonym for Polite man >>

a 'gentlemen's agreement'

is a verbal agreement

based on respect.

I. Read the following passage from a biography of Robert Browning and do the related

exercises. formality

In the autumn of 1844 Mr. Browning set forth for Italy, taking ship, it is believed, direct to Naples.

not as strong as friendship upper-class> with a proper income

Here he made the acquaintance of a young Neapolitan gentleman who had spent most of his life in

Paris; and they became such good friends that they proceeded to Rome together. Mr. Scotti was an

triyng to convince to lower

engaging a coach carriage the price

invaluable travelling companion, for he engaged their conveyance, and did all such bargaining in

his help was important > he knew prices and italian

their joint interest as the habits of his country required. 'As I write,' Mr. Browning said in a letter to

his sister, 'I hear him disputing our bill in the next room. He does not see why we should pay for six

wax candles when we have used only two.' At Rome they spent most of their evenings with an old

at that time> not yet married

acquaintance of Mr. Browning's, then Countess Carducci, and she pronounced Mr. Scotti the

referred to men generally or women only if old and not attractive/ synonyms: rich, wealthy,well-off

PRETTY used usually for women and for men only if the man is probably GAY.

handsomest man she had ever seen. He certainly bore no appearance of being the least prosperous.

He blew out his brains soon after he and his new friend had parted; and I do not think the act was

ever fully accounted for. Livorno> no longer familiar in Eng. because at that time was an

important port

It must have been on his return journey that Mr. Browning went to Leghorn to see Edward John

thay had not yet met with each other> a mutual friend introduced them = meeting

Trelawney, to whom he carried a letter of introduction. He described the interview long afterwards

to Mr. Val Prinsep, but chiefly in his impressions of the cool courage which Mr. Trelawney had

displayed during its course. A surgeon was occupied all the time in probing his leg for a bullet

recently after lots of time it hurted

which had been lodged there some years before, and had lately made itself felt; and he showed

himself absolutely indifferent to the pain of the operation. Mr. Browning's main object in paying the

as a poet

visit had been, naturally, to speak with one who had known Byron and been the last to see Shelley

importance of details> to prove earnestness of the writer>

she could't be certain of everything reference to an earlier chapter

alive. He reached England, again, we suppose, through Germany—since he avoided Paris as before.