Theatre: Chapter

1) Aprofound contempt – глубокое презрение

To have first nights – играть в премьере

To be exemplary – быть примерным

A pattern of conjugal fidelity – образец супружеской верности

To separate – отделяться, разделять

Be ingenuous – быть простодушным

To cry almost at will – плакать почти по желанию

Common sense – здравый смысл

To elope with sb. – сбежать с кем-то

Preposterous – нелепый, абсурдный

Curtain calls – вызовы актера

Prudish – ханжеский, не в меру стыдливый

In for a penny, in for a pound - назвался груздем - полезай в кузов

This was all a put-up job – это была чистой воды махинация

Indecent - неприличный

In a flash – в мгновение ока

To take liberties with sb. - позволять себе вольности с кем-либо (по отношению к кому-либо)

A matinee – утренняя пора

Amiably – любезность, доброжелательность

Well-chosen words – хорошо отобранный слова

To have no sequel – не иметь продолжения

To erase the episode from her memory – стереть этот эпизод из памяти

Pleasant reveries sauntered through her mind – приятные грезы блуждали по ее разуму

Hectic flush – лихорадочный румянец

To see in the flesh – увидеть вживую

To hurt one's pride – задеть чью-то гордость

To have an inkling – намек, слабое подозрение

To pawn – закладывать, отдавать в залог

2) 1. Julia and Lord Tamerly got acquainted at a luncheon party. No, she wasn’t his mistress, though many people convinced that she was Charles Tamerley's mistress because of their close relationships.

2. She sat down and for a minute looked silently at the miniature. Timing it perfectly, she raised her eyes till they met Charles's. She could cry almost at will, it was one of her most telling accomplishments, and now without a sound, without a sob, the tears poured down her cheeks. With her mouth slightly open, with the look in her eyes of a child that has been deeply hurt and does not know why, the effect was unbearably pathetic. Then she just cried and nodded.

There is no doubt that it was only make-believe because she had already prepared her course of conduct for the declaration which she felt he would sooner or later bring himself to make.

3. She agreed to have tea with him because it was something new and interesting for her.It was Tom Fennel, but Julia did not know the name.

4. At first, his behavior was predictable for her, but then, he turned out to be an absolute different person, not shy at all.

5. He had seen her in every play she had acted in since he was twelve years old. He told her that

once when he was fourteen he had stood outside the stage door after a matinee and when she came out had asked her to sign her name in his autograph book.

6. She was extremely happy, it was a new adventure for her. Her eyes shone brightly and wonderfully. "I feel like a two-year-old.“

“Julia acted as though it was the first time. Her performance was brilliant. She got laughs that she had never got before. She always had magnetism, but on this occasion it seemed to flow over the house in a great radiance." She was 40 year old.

Your surrounding always reflects on you. She can’t refuse to Tom. She remembered her previous life and how happy she was. Her husband didn’t give her that passion and love that Tom gave. But she is older him and it is wrong to my mind to have an affair with him.

7.  The trains south were so crowded that she had not been able to get a sleeper. One man, Spaniard, offers her his place. She agreed. They had a conversation, but that man didn’t want to leave her. When they began to say goodbye, the man kissed Julie and they had an affair. She didn’t want to sleep with him. But his beard attracted her.

-"He can hardly expect me to ask him to come and sleep in here," Julia said to herself. "I'm beginning to think this was all a put-up job. Nothing doing, my lad." And then aloud. "Romantic, of course, but uncomfortable."   Her thoughts are right at first. She understands how she mustn’t act. But her actions are so different from her thoughts. She yielded to temptation.

-"If you think that because you've given up your compartment to me I'm going to let you sleep with me, you're mistaken."

"Just as you say, of course. But why not?"

"I'm not that sort of terribly attractive woman."

"What sort of woman are you then?"

"A faithful wife and a devoted mother."

He gave a little sigh.

"Very well. Then I'll say good night to you."  She quietly told about the man’s wish, she understood that many men wanted her. But she couldn’t think that she could sleep with a stranger.

"But as time passed Julia's indignation was mitigated, and she had often thought of the adventure since with a good deal of pleasure. After all it had been fun.”  She perceived all this as an adventure. As she didn’t make something terrible. On the one hand, she had the right because her husband didn’t give her passion. He loved only himself. On the other hand, she is married. She must save her condition. I think she was wrong. It isn’t proper to sleep with a stranger, especially she is married. Moreover, she thought bad about such women, but anyway slept with that man.

8. Tom called her and they agreed upon to meet in the theater

9. “But when she saw him, so slight, with his hectic flush and his blue eyes, so charmingly boyish, she felt a sudden pang.” He was about 18. As her son Roger was seventeen . “she  was old enough to be his mother.”

10. They were so bright, beautiful and famous. They can do everything. He wants to be like they.

11. I disapprove her actions. It is ridiculous to my mind at her age to meet with so young man.

3) “She was troubled. It seemed to her that her voice did not sound quite natural.("What the devil's the matter with me? God, I can hardly breathe.")”   Her interior monologue helps to see her emotional experience, how she is afraid of her feelings.

("I'm a fool. I'm a bloody fool.") the repetition of the word “fool” strengthen her fear to him.

“kissed him as passionately”

 “She could have taken him in her arms then and there and kissed his blue eyes. She adored him.”

She has contradictory feelings. Her mind and her soul think differently. When she is without Tom, she understands all her consequences, she thinks reasonably. But at his present her exciting and loving feelings to him win.

4) Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".

   Mlle Clairon-was a leading actress of the Comédie-Française who created many parts in the plays of Voltaire, Jean-François Marmontel, Bernard-Joseph Saurin, and others.She began her career as a soubrette but made her debut at the Comédie-Française in 1743 as Phèdre in the tragedy by Racine. She also portrayed Corneille’s heroines, who combined nobility of soul, pride, and intelligence. In 1753 Marmontel influenced her to simplify her declamatory style. Prompted by Diderot, she introduced touches of character and of ethnic realism into her roles.

  Madame de Pompadour was a mistress, friend and adviser to Louis XV, remained with the king up to her death in 1764. Introduced to the court through relatives, she was noticed by the king and quickly became one of his preferred mistresses. Louis XV had the Petit Trianon palace built for her, a haven of peace away from the court.

  Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay ; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836.

5) "... like Venus rising from the waves” is an artistic allusion.It is related to the 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli “The Birth of Venus”. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). It represents the birth of love.

6) The reader got to know about  Julia's  acquaintance with  Charles Tamerly,who was madly in love with her.She found him very polite and elegant man,he was her adviser and supporter. Some time later Thomas Fennel called Julia and invited her for a tea. His poor apartment reminded Julia the times when she was in the beginning of her carrier, the times of her youth... Suddenly the young man kissed her and she didn't resist. After this affair Julia was happy and her eyes were shining. During her trip she had another sexual affair with an unknown man. After the returning Julia and  Thomas Fennel went to an expensive restaurant, where Tom payed for them both. She noticed he had pawned his watch in order to take her out to supper. A lump came into her throat. She adored him. After that they drove back to his bed-sitting room in Tavistock Square.