Questão de Língua Inglesa

CPACN/2024 Página: 9/13 Read text IV to answer questions 31 and 32. Text IV When we started for our drive lhe sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of lhe joyousness of early summer. Just as we were about to depart, Herr Delbruck (lhe maitred'hotel of the QuatreSaisons, where I was staying) carne down bareheaded to lhe carriage and, alter wishing me a pleasant drive, said to lhe coachman, still holding his hand on the handle of lhe carriage door, "Remember you are back by nightfall. The sky looks bright but there is a shiver in the north wind that says there may be a sudden storm. But I am sure you will not be late." Here he smiled and added, "for you know what night it is." Johann answered with an emphatic, "Ja, mein Herr," and, touching his hat, drove off quickly. When we had cleared the town, 1 said, alter signalling to him to stop: "Tell me, Johann, what is tonight?" He crossed himself, as he answered laconically: "Wa/purgis nacht." (... ) "Well, Johann, 1 want to go down this road. 1 shall not ask you to come unless you like; but tel1 me why you do not like to go", 1 asked. For answer, he seemed to throw himself off -.the box, so quickly did he reach the ground. Then he stretched out his hands appealingly to me, and implored me not to go. There was just enough of English mixed with lhe German for me to understand the drilt of his talk. He seemed always just about to tel1 me something - lhe very idea of which evidently frightened him; but, each time, he pulled himself up, saying, as he crossed himself: "Walpurgis nacht!" Excerpt from "Dracu/a's Guest", a short story by Bram Stoker (1847-1912);:first published in the col/ection "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories': two years after lhe author's death. lt is believed to have been intended as lhe first chapter for Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula", but was deleted prior to publication by the original publishers who felt it was superf/uous to the story.