Q5 of 32 Page 3

What do you understand by the following statements?

"We do many things, sir," Nicola answered seriously. He glanced at us hopefully.

Nicola and Jacopo had stopped the author's car near Verona to sell fruit. Later, when the author came out of his hotel, he saw them polishing and shining shoes. The author was surprised to see them there and went up to them and said that he thought they sold fruit for a living. Nicola said that they did many sorts of other jobs too. It showed that the boys were not ashamed of doing small or lowly jobs to earn money. It also showed that they were eager to help the author with any help he needed when he was staying in the hotel.


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