(1) Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming person. (2) The poor should be ordinary and (PRACTICE) ________. (3) It is better to a have permanent income than to be interesting. (4) These are the great truths of modern life which Rob Darrow never realized. (5) Poor Rob! He was not, we must admit, a man of great (INTELLIGENT) ________. (6) He never said a clever thing in his life. (7) But he was (WONDER) ________ good-looking, with brown hair, his clear-cut features, and his grey eyes.

(8) He was as popular with men as he was with women, and he had every quality except that of making money. (9) His father, on his death, had left him his sword and a History of the Peninsular War in 15 parts. (10) Rob hung the first above his mirror, put the second on a shelf, and lived on two hundred pounds a year that an old aunt allowed him.

(11) He had tried everything. (12) He had bought and sold shares for six months but how could he succeed among (EXPERIENCE) ________ men? (13) Then he had tried (SELL) ________ wine, but nobody bought any. (14) At last he became nothing, a charming, (NO USE) ________ man with perfect features and no profession.