Owen

Owen

Owen was late again. He ran up the stairs and entered arrived achieved appeared (entered) a large, elegantly furnished room full of undergraduates and professors, with oil paintings of more ancient versions of the latter decorating the walls. Owen spotted someone he recognized. It was Mr Nelson, who revised remembered reviewed reminded (reminded) Owen and his friend Lewis that the tutorial would be on Tuesday, at nine o'clock.

Lewis made sure that Owen was on time for his first tutorial with Mr Nelson the following morning, but even so, Owen still succeeded managed fulfilled completed (managed) to turn up only moments before the appointed hour. The senior tutor opened his remarks by making it clear that weekly essays were to be devoted declared delivered defined (delivered) every Thursday by five o'clock, and if anyone was late for a tutorial, they should not be surprised to find the door locked.

Owen was grateful that his room was a hundred yards from Mr Nelson's, and that his mother suggested supplied proposed submitted (supplied) him with an alarm clock. The tutorial went far better than Owen had dared to hope. His spirits were raised further when he detected invented explored discovered (discovered) that evening that the senior tutor shared his love of Boswell, as well as Byron and Wordsworth, and had been a personal friend of Browning. Moreover Although However Therefore (Moreover) , Mr Nelson left Owen in no doubt about what would be expected of his assistant in his first year, saying that although the university term was only eight weeks in length, he would be required to work just as hard during the vacation.