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Рассказа Контервильское привидение на английском. 50 баллов

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Summary
Chapter 1
When the American ambassador Otis decided to acquire Canterville Castle, they began to dissuade him from this venture, assuring him "that a ghost lives in the castle." However, the ambassador did not pay attention to such trifles, and soon drove into a new residence with his family - his beautiful wife, his eldest son Washington, his fifteen-year-old daughter Virginia, and twin boys, nicknamed “Stars and Stripes,“ because they had been smashed endlessly. ”


Noticing a “red spot darkened by time” near the fireplace, which turned out to be bloody, Mrs. Otis ordered the old maid to erase it. She refused superstition, and Washington set to work, who easily erased it with stain remover.

Chapter 2
The next day, after a severe storm, "everyone again saw a terrible bloody stain on the floor." Washington brought him out again, but it stubbornly continued to appear day after day.

One night, Mr. Otis woke up from a rattle of metal and someone's footsteps. Going out into the corridor, he saw a terrible old man, dressed in rags and shackled in shackles. The sight of the ghost did not in the least surprise the ambassador, who calmly asked him to "lubricate his chains from now on", and then went into his room. The ghost's humiliation was intensified by a pillow flying over his head, which the restless twins threw off from above. Deeply wounded, he "plotted revenge."

Chapter 3
The blood stain began to change its color, and then it appeared dark red, then purple, and even emerald green. Such changes "really amused the family."

At night, everyone woke up from a terrible roar - a ghost tried to put on knightly armor, but to no avail. The twins immediately began firing at him from the slingshots, and Mr. Otis took aim at the silt of a revolver. The ghost erupted “with its famous devilish laughter,” to which Mrs. Otis invited him to drink medicinal potion.

The "bad manners of the twins and rude materialism" of the rest of the family members plunged the ghost into a state of deep anguish. He planned to brutally take revenge on the new tenants, but this was prevented by the appearance of a new ghost. Later, the Canterville ghost found out that "he was deceived, outwitted, carried out," and this was only a scarecrow.
 
Chapter 4
The next night, the ghost wanted to play the role of “Brave Ruper, or Headless Earl,” but the twins scared him, and he abandoned his venture. The boys "ambushed him several times," and the ghost decided to no longer appear in the corridors of the castle.

Chapter 5
One day, Virginia walked into a small closet, where she saw a ghost, whose figure "expressed hopeless despair." The girl felt sorry for him, and she talked with a ghost. Upon learning that the ghost was forced to serve his sentence for the murder of his wife, she scolded him, but afterwards offered to go to America and heal a little. The ghost refused. Then the kind girl said that she would ask Angel to have mercy on him.

Chapter 6
In gratitude that Virginia saved his soul, the ghost gave her a "box with wonderful jewelry." She took the family to the closet, where she spent the whole evening talking with the ghost. There they saw a skeleton chained to a huge metal ring in the wall.

Chapter 7
A few days after these amazing events, a funeral ceremony was performed. Mr. Otis handed over the found jewels to Lord Canterville, but he donated them to Virginia in gratitude “for her rare courage and selflessness”.

After a while, Virginia married her admirer, Duke of Cheshire. After the honeymoon, the couple returned to Canterville Castle, and on the grave of Sir Simon, a former ghost, she admitted that in that closet he told her, “what is Life, and what is Death, and why Love is stronger than Life and Death