Read aloud paragraphs 1–3 until you have learned them by heart. Then try to complete the passage from memory. I think the chief thing that _________ (1) me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very pleasing in his ________ (2) blue eyes. His voice was ________ (3); you could not imagine that he could possibly ________ ________ (4) in anger; his smile was ________ (5). Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows. At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell _________ ________ (6) a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been _____________ ________ (7) an athlete. He was a rich man and he had ________ ________ ________ (8) himself. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so ________ ________ ________ (9); he aroused your instincts of protection. You felt that he could ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ (10).