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Flamingo Prose CH 4 The Rattrap — ENGLISH STD 12 Commerce — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceENGLISHFlamingo Prose CH 4 The Rattrap5 Marks
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(disappear, carriage, assumed, persuasion, dead, apparently, last, except, miserable, turned on)
The ironmaster ________ that he felt embarrassed because of his _____ clothing. “Please don’t think that I have such a fine home that you cannot show yourself there”, He said... “Elizabeth is _____ as you may already have heard. My boys are abroad, and there is no one at home _______ my oldest daughter and myself. We were just saying that it was too bad we didn’t have any company for Christmas. Now come along with me and help us make the Christmas food __________ little faster But the stranger said no, and no, and again no, and the ironmaster saw that he must give in. “It looks as though Captain von Stahle preferred to stay with you tonight, Stjernstrom”, he said to the master blacksmith, and _______ his heel. But he laughed to himself as he went away, and the blacksmith, who knew him, understood very well that he had not said his _______ word. It was not more than half an hour before they heard the sound of ______ wheels outside the forge, and a new guest came in, but this time it was not the ironmaster. He had sent his daughter, ________ hoping that she would have better powers of ________ than he himself.
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Assumed, miserable, dead, except, disappear, turned, last, carriage, apparently, persuasion

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