He said, “I don’t want to intefere, young fellow, but my guess is that you want to collect some money from Lutkins. He never pays anybody a cent. He still owes me fifty cents on a poker game I was fool enough to play with him. He’s not really bad, but it’s hard to make him part with his money. If you try to collect from him, in those fancy clothes, he’ll be suspicious and get away from you. If you want I’ll go into Fritz’s and ask for him, and you can keep out of sight behind me.”
(a) Who was the young fellow?
(b) The speaker played __________ game with him.
(c) Give the noun form of ‘Suspicious’ and ‘interfere’.
(d) Use a word or a phrase from the passage to complete the sentence. Before I could ____ from the place my teacher saw me and asked me to report to him in the library.
Class 10 English Chapter 8 Reference to context – RTC 2
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(a) The young lawyer
(b) poker
(c) Suspicion, interference
(d) get away