Class 10 English — Chapter 3: The Midnight Visitor
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What you'll learn
- ▸Character Analysis: Ausable
- ▸Character Analysis: Max
- ▸Fowler's Role as the Observer
- ▸The Plot Device: The Non-Existent Balcony
- ▸Building Suspense and Misdirection
- ▸Theme: Appearance vs. Reality
- ▸The Concept of 'Presence of Mind'
Chapter Summary
--- PAGE 1 --- 3 The Midnight Visitor Ausable, a secret agent, is expecting to get a very important report. Another secret agent, Max, threatens him with a pistol, demanding the report. Does Ausable outwit him? 1060CH03 READ AND FIND OUT • How is Ausable different from other secret agents? • Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day? AUSABLE did not fit any description of a secret agent Fowler had ever read. Following him down the musty corridor of the gloomy French hotel where Ausable had a room, Fowler felt let down. It was a small room, on the sixth and top floor, and scarcely a setting for a romantic adventure. Ausable was, for one thing, fat. Very fat. And then there was his accent. Though he spoke French and German passably,…
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Did you know?
- 💡 Many octopus species can perfectly camouflage themselves in seconds.
- 💡 Ancient Roman spies used invisible ink made from fruit juices.
- 💡 The world's oldest hotel has been operating in Japan since 705 AD.
- 💡 Agatha Christie, a famous mystery writer, once vanished for 11 days.
- 💡 Actual spy pigeons were used in World War I to take aerial photos.
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