Exercise 115. Use the proper article

I. James was sitting before fire, in big arm-chair, with camel-hair
shawl over his shoulders. His white hair, still fairly thick, glistened
in lamplight. His long legs, thin as crow's, in plaid trousers, were
bent. Beside him, on low stool, stood half-finished glass of negus,
bedewed with beads of heat There he had been sitting, with inter­
vals for meals, all day.

II. At eighty-eight he was still organically sound, but suffering
terribly from thought that no one ever told him anything. It is, in­
deed, doubtful how he had become aware that Roger was being
buried that day, for Emily had kept it from him. Where was
Soames? He had gone to funeral, of course, which they had tried to
keep from him. Roger! Roger in his coffin! Funny fel­
low-Roger-original! Younger than himself, and in his coffin!

HI. Family was breaking up. There was Val going to university. He would cost pretty penny up there. It was extravagant age. No­body thought of anything but spending money in these days, and having what they called "good time."

IV. James had eaten poor lunch. But it was after lunch that the real disaster to his nerves occurred. He had been dozing when he became aware of voices, low voices. "Monty!" That fellow Dar-tie-always that fellow Dartie! Voices had receded; and James had been left alone, with his ears standing up like hare's and fear creeping about his inwards.