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Dr. Forsythe is attending a winter gala at the estate of a local Duke, Lord Cress. After overhearing part of a confidential conversation regarding his late wife, Forsythe plans to leave the party, but is stopped on his way by the Duke’s son, Francis.  \nForsythe’s disposition, so recently buoyant and carefree, swiftly darkened to the extent that, were he to auscultate himself at that moment, the diagnosis could only reveal  \n5 an acute saturninity, or else some other sinister malady that corrupts the body and gives the mind a likeness of wetted ash. A perfect fool, he thought, a perfect and exemplary fool. Feeling a sudden unrest in his  \n10 abdomen, Forsythe doubled himself so that his brow might rest on the cool, polished stone of the balustrade. He could not weep; nor could he seem to muster his wrath or rancor. Each time he tried, the sensation flared just for a  \n15 moment within his throat before, like themeek flame of a vicar’s candle, it was smothered in the wintry air.  \nIndeed, all that Forsythe felt was ill. Slowly, caustically, something was leaving his body—  \n20 an obstinate fever on the edge of breaking; avast, black contusion rising to the surface from the deepest stratum of his flesh. How cruel, he thought, raising his head, and how impudent. How many knew? All of them, perchance? All  \n25 but he before tonight, for the matter was surely no great secret if its substance had trickled down to common parlor gossip. Forsythe had to resist a perverse temptation to  \nlaugh. It was comical in a way, with the  \n30 dramatic irony of a farcical play. He had studied through the lens of his microscope the waste of germs and infinitesimal parasites—invisible to most—that provoke such majorities of the world’s suffering. And yet, in so focusing  \n35 his view, he had failed to perceive an affliction that towered before him for fifteen years; one that to others was unmistakable.  \n“My wife”, he whispered aloud,“Mother to Francis, Earl of Pembroke.” Forsythe recalled  \n40 treating Lord Cress for pneumonia the winter prior. Despite a fearsome cough that for two months racked his torso—cracking three ribs ina particularly violent episode—the decrepit nobleman had greedily held fast his grip on  \n45 life. Two months Forsythe had spent in the Duke’s stifling bedchamber, tending to his every ache. Even as the sick man slept, Lady Cress insisted Forsythe remain nearby. Silently, he recounted all the hours—hours he might  \n50 have shared with his wife—that instead he’d squandered with Lord Cress, expelling his phlegm-­‐choked snores upward where they filled the sagging, silk canopy of camphor and egesta. Remarkable, thought Forsythe, gazing  \n55 back through the frosted window to where Lady Cress was dancing a quadrille. She’s gone along with this the whole while.  \nThe scandal, of course, would have transpired well before the Forsythes were  \n60 wed—but despite its remoteness, the Doctor found the details of the affair simpler and simpler to apprehend. Lady Cress failed to yield, and the Duke, no doubt as desperate fora male heir as he was wanton, sired himself an  \n65 illegitimate son; one that they would pass off for an Earl. Inside the manor he could discern the form of Lord Cress, snowy-­‐haired and mustachioed, at rest in his gilt wheelchair on a low platform above the dancers. His wet lips  \n70 drew themselves into a grin as he quaffed another goblet of sherry. The whole, illustrious  \nCopyright © 2017. BWS Education Consulting, Inc. [www.BWSEducationConsulting.com](www.BWSEducationConsulting.com)  \nhistory of the nobles, thought Forsythe, is here epitomized. They are crooks, base criminals, usurpers—wretched, godless and cruel.  \n75 Disgusted, Forsythe turned away and started toward the edge of the portico. He was interrupted, however, by a slender figu","cbCaim6HY8Zl9KPA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim6HY8Zl9KPA","pdf",333102,15,"English","# Passage: Bend Sinister\n## Comprehension Questions (1-10)\n### Italics purpose\n### Forsythe’s demeanor\n### Inference about “How many knew?”\n### Irony and evidence","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the italics used throughout the passage?\",\"answer\":\"The question asks about what italicized text signifies in the excerpt. 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