Read the passage. ... [The store clerk] was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets that glittered and rattled and tinkled with
every movement of her hands. Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all; and those bangles completely wrecked his wits at
one fell swoop.
"What can I do for you this evening, Mr. Cuthbert?" Miss Lucilla Harris inquired, briskly and ingratiatingly, tapping the counter with both
hands.
"Have you any-any-any-well now, say any garden rakes?" stammered Matthew.
Miss Harris looked somewhat surprised, as well she might, to hear a man inquiring for garden rakes in the middle of December.
"I believe we have one or two left over," she sald, "but they're up-stairs in the lumber-room. I'll go and see."
During her absence Matthew collected his scattered senses for another effort.
When Miss Harris returned with the rake and cheerfully Inquired: "Anything else to-night, Mr. Cuthbert?" Matthew took his courage in both
hands and replied: "Well now, since you suggest it, I might as well-take-that is-look at-buy some-some hayseed."
Miss Harris had heard Matthew Cuthbert called odd. She now concluded that he was entirely crazy.
"We only keep hayseed in the spring." she explained loftily. "We've none on hand just now."
"Oh, certainly-certainly-Just as you say," stammered unhappy Matthew, selzing the rake and making for the door. At the threshold he
recollected that he had not paid for it and he turned miserably back. While Miss Harris was counting out his change he rallied his powers for a
Based on the passage, which best describes Matthew Cuthbert?
O 1. quick to change his mind
2. confused about what he wants
O 3. Interested in unusual farming methods
O 4. shy in the company of sophisticated women
Growth Reading 6+ CSS 2010 Y3
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