Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”So he foraged, and brought triumphantly forth half a chicken, a couple of slices of melon and some light biscuits, with a generous noggin of milk to wash it all down.
Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride.”Lizzie Dunlop patted the small lady’s shoulder soothingly. "There, there, little iceberg,” she said, "let it all be buried! It’s forgotten. You shall never be worried about it again. You are here to enjoy every moment of your holiday, and to tell me the news of civilization, and to take rides across the prairie. What a blessing we have a decent road for the velocipede—I beg pardon—bicycle! You must have lots of grit to mount that scary machine; and—oh! Maude! How can you want to be a surgeon? I should die if I saw a man cut up and mangled; but you are a marvel!”
Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”Ten o’clock, and she wheeled breathlessly past the outlying houses, and stepped wearily off on the threshold of the little inn, where the Doctor lived. It was such a parody on a hotel—just two square rooms and a lean-to below, and three tiny bedrooms above, with their sashless windows, covered with mosquito netting, looking blank and deserted.
Based on their actions in “A Century Ride,” which inference about Lizzie and Maude as women of the late 1800s is most valid?
Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride.”When she came forward at Commencement, in a delightful little Greenaway gown of white muslin, peppered over with tiny dots, with the very smile of childhood in her wide blue eyes, and her curly hair clustering round her brows—the learned doctors, imported to adorn the Commencement exercises, blinked their eyes and looked twice, and hesitated, even then, to accept her as an established fact.
Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride.”"Shall I go?” were the words which would have issued from her pretty lips, one day, a week later (had she been in the habit of talking to herself), as she finished reading a long and chatty letter inviting her to "come away North, and spend the holidays,” and concluding with these words: "We are fifty miles from everywhere, and our roads are splendid, so you had better bring your bicycle, or velocipede, or whatever it is you ride to the horror and confusion of Auntie.”
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Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”“Great Scott!” he stammered, “what’s the matter? Surely ’tisn’t Mrs. Dunlop?” and he gaped at the dusty little lady, who sat on the door-step, and the wheel which lay on the roadway.“I’m choking with thirst,” said Maude. “Get me a drink of water, and I’ll tell you,” and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage.“Don’t take much,” he stammered incoherently. “I’ve put a drop of whiskey in it. Now tell me, in the name of Heaven, what sent you riding across the country in this fashion?”
Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”But now, Carr was behaving atrociously. When Lizzie and her husband were present, he was geniality personified, his brown eyes twinkled, and his laugh rang clear; when Lizzie, with transparent diplomacy, pleaded delicate health, and retired early, or with pretty wifely demands drew her husband aside, and left the young people en tête-à-tête, Carr knitted his brows in an ugly frown, and sat, stood, or strolled in gloomy silence.
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