Тексты для экзамена 11 класса

                                       Looking for a Hotel.

    It was the Sunday before the August Bank Holiday.  We  were  tired  and
hungry and when we got to Datchet we started off to  look  for  shelter  for
the night.
    We passed a very pretty little hotel but there was no honeysuckle about
it, and for some reason or other , I had got my mind fixed  on  honeysuckle,
and I said:
    “ Oh’ don’t let’s go in there ! Let’s go on a bit further , and see  if
there isn’t one with honeysuckle over it.”
    So we went on till we came to another  hotel.  That  was  a  very  nice
hotel, too, and it had honeysuckle on it, but Harris did not like  the  look
of a man who was standing near the front door. He  said  he  didn’t  look  a
nice man at all , so we went on the further. We went a goodish  way  without
coming across any more hotels, and then we met a man  ,  and  asked  him  to
tell us the way to a few .
    He said “Why , you are coming away from them. There are only two hotels
in the place.”
    “Oh, we had been there , and didn’t like them. And no other hotels?”  –
Harris asked.
    “None”, replied our informant.
    “What are we to do ?” cried Harris.
    Then George spoke up. He said Harris and I could get a hotel built  for
us , if we like. For his part, he was going to the hotels we had passed.
    We had to follow Gorge. When we came to the hotel we had seen  first  ,
the landlord came up and said: “Good evening, gentlemen.”
    “Oh , good evening,” said Gorge, “two will do. Two of us can  sleep  on
one bad.”
    “ Very sorry , sir,” repeated the landlord , ‘ “ but we really  haven’t
got a bed vacant in the whole house. In fact , we are  putting  two  ,  even
three gentlemen in  one bed , as it is.  Three  gentlemen  sleeping  on  the
billiard-table already, and two in the coffee-room. Can’t possibly take  you
in  tonight.”
    We picked up our things, and went to the other hotel. The people at the
hotel did not wait to hear us talk. The landlady met  us  on  the   doorstep
with the greeting that we were the fourteenth  party  she  had  turned  away
within the last hour and a half. As for our  weak  suggestions  of  stables,
billiard-room, or coal-cellars, she laughed them all off; all  these  places
had been occupied long ago.
    Did she know of any place in the  whole  village  where  we  could  get
shelter for the night?
    Well, if we didn’t mind it- she didn’t recommend it , but there  was  a
little bar half a mile down the road. We waited to hear no more;  we  picked
up our bags and ran.
                                                      (After J.K.Jerome)
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