Roald Dahl
A SUMMARY OF THE STORY
"I wonder if I could ask a small favor of you ," he said. But my mother was looking at him suspiciously. She felt quite embarrassed by her mother's sharpness. He asked my mother to give him in return a pound for his taxi-fare to get his home. My mother was still suspicious. " If you had no money in the first place, how did you get there?" Her mother said. He told her that he walked here. "Everyday I go for a lovely long walk and then I summon a taxi to take me home. " he said. Her mother was beginning to melt a bit. And the idea of getting an umbrella to shelter under must have tempted her good deal. " Why don't you take it, madam," he said.
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suspiciously:疑わしげに
embarrassed:恥ずかしい
sharpness:厳しい態度
in the first place:そもそも
summon:呼び出す
melt:和らぐ
tempt：誘う
I think this is good. One problem, however, is that the section you read it very short. Let's talk about this in class.
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