Adefenseless creature
“your excellency, make me remember you in my prayers for the rest of my days, have pity on a lone, lorn woman,” wailed madame shtchukin; “i am a weak, defenceless i am worried to death, i’ve to settle with the lodgers and see to my husband’s affairs and fly round looking after the house, and i am going to church every day this week, and my son-in-law is out of a i might as well not eat or i can scarcely keep on my i haven’t slept all ”
3. part a: what does the word “lorn” most likely mean, as used in paragraph 15? a miserable
b anxious
c sick
d faithful
4.
part b: which of the following phrases best supports the answer to part a?
a
“‘make me remember you in my prayers for the rest of my days’”
b
“‘i am worried to death, i’ve to settle with the lodgers’”
c
“‘and see to my husband’s affairs and fly round looking after the house’”
d
“‘i might as well not eat or i can scarcely keep on my i haven’t slept all night…’”