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4. Show the program trace of the following program using the input stream 5 2 -1 10
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ int A, B, N;
A = 3;
B = 6;
cout << "Enter a sequence of values " ;
do
{ cin >> N;
A = A + N + B;
B ++;
} while (N < 10);
B *= 2;
cout << "(N,A,B) = " << "(" << N << ", " << A << ", " << B << ")" <<endl;
return 0;
}
6. Show the output of the following program using the input data: 8 -3 20
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ int N, R, S;
cout << "Enter a list of integers terminated by 20.";
S=1;
R=0;
do
{
cin >> N;
R++;
S = S + N;
} while (N < 20);
cout << "S = " << S << “ R = “ << R;
return 0;
}
7. Write a short C++ program to read positive integers, until the value -1 is read and print the
sum of the values.
8. Which control statement is best used when you know how many times to repeat the execution
of a group of statements?
A. the do-while statement
B. the for statement
C. the switch statement
D. the while statement
9. The control statement which is best used when you need to select from among many integer
choices is the . . .
A. for statement
B. while statement
C. do/while statement
D. switch statement
10. The control statement which is best used when you want to repeat a group of statements based
on a condition and the statements in the loop body must be executed at least once is the . . .
A. the for statement
B. the while statement
C. the do/while statement
D. the switch statement
11. When more than one statement appears in a loop body . . .
A. the loop body must be enclosed in parentheses, ( )
B. the loop body must be enclosed in curly braces, { }
C. the compiler requires that the statements in the loop body be indented.
D. there is nothing required to specify that there is more than one statement to the compiler
14. The break statement is used to terminate the execution of a switch statement
A. True
B. False
15. A do-while loop repeats the loop body zero or more times.
A. True
B. False
16. One reason for an infinite loop in a while loop is that the loop body has no statement which
changes the value of a variable in the conditional boolean expression part of the while loop.
A. True
B. False
17. The while statement will execute the loop body if the condition evaluates to false or zero.
A. True
B. False
18. The continue statement causes the program to skip the rest of the loop body and to determine
if the loop body is to be executed again.
A. True
B. False
19. A while loop repeats the loop body zero or more times.
A. True
B. False
20. A for loop repeats the loop body zero or more times.
A. True
B. False
21. When multiple initialization and/or modification statements are required in a for statement,
which operator is used to separate the statements:
A. The comma
B. The semicolon
C. The colon
D. None of these – it is not possible to have more than one initialization statement.
22. The comma operator has the lowest precedence of any C++ operator.
A. True
B. False
23. Sentinel-controlled input loops require a priori knowledge of how many data are in the file.
A. True
B. False
24. Counter-controlled input loops require a priori knowledge of how many data are in the file.
A. True
B. False
25. eof-controlled input loops require a priori knowledge of how many data are in the file.
A. True
B. False
Language: English
BY
M. C. ROWSELL
AUTHOR OF
“THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE,” “TRAITOR OR PATRIOT,” “THORNDYKE
MANOR,” “MONSIEUR DE PARIS,” ETC. ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
B R E N TA N O ’ S
NEW YORK
H U R S T & B L A C K E T T, L I M I T E D
LONDON
1910
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTS
PAGE
Chapter I 1
Birth—Parentage—“Arms and the Man”—A Vain Hope—Contraband Novels—A
Change of Educational System—Ninon’s Endowments—The Wrinkle—A Letter
to M. de L’Enclos and What Came of it—A Glorious Time—“Troublesome
Huguenots”—The Château at Loches, and a New Acquaintance—“When Greek
meets Greek”—The Prisoners—“Liberty”—The Shades of Night—Vagabonds?
or Two Young Gentlemen of Consequence?—Tired Out—A Dilemma—Ninon
Herself Again—Consolation.
Chapter II 14
Troublesome Huguenots—Madame de L’Enclos—An Escapade and Nurse
Madeleine—Their Majesties—The Hôtel Bourgogne—The End of the Adventure
—St Vincent de Paul and his Charities—Dying Paternal Counsel—Ninon’s New
Home—Duelling—Richelieu and the Times.
Chapter III 27
A Life-long Friend—St Evrémond’s Courtly Mot—Rabelais v. Petronius—Society
and the Salons—The Golden Days—The Man in Black.
Chapter IV 36
A “Delicious Person”—Voiture’s Jealousy—A Tardy Recognition—Coward
Conscience—A Protestant Pope—The Hôtel de Rambouillet—St Evrémond—
The Duel—Nurse Madeleine—Cloistral Seclusion and Jacques Callot—“Merry
Companions Every One”—and One in Particular.
Chapter V 51
An Excursion to Gentilly—“Uraniæ Sacrum”—César and Ruggieri—The rue
d’Enfer and the Capucins—Perditor—The Love-philtre—Seeing the Devil
—“Now You are Mine!”
Chapter VI 61
Nemesis—Ninon’s Theories—Wits and Beaux of the Salons—Found at Last
—“The Smart Set”—A Domestic Ménage—Scarron—The Fatal Carnival—The
Bond of Ninon—Corneille and The Cid—The Cardinal’s Jealousy—Enlarging
the Borders—Monsieur l’Abbé and the Capon Leg—The Grey Cardinal—A
Faithful Servant.
Chapter VII 81
Mélusine—Cinq-Mars—An Ill-advised Marriage—The Conspiracy—The
Revenge—The Scaffold—A Cry from the Bastille—The Lady’s Man—“The
Cardinal’s Hangman”—Finis—Louis’s Evensong—A Little Oversight—The
King’s Nightcap—Mazarin—Ninon’s Hero.
Chapter VIII 91
“Loving like a Madman”—A Great Transformation—The Unjust Tax—Parted
Lovers—A Gay Court and A School for Scandal, and Mazarin’s Policy—The
Regent’s Caprices—The King’s Upholsterer’s Young Son—The Théâtre Illustre
—The Company of Monsieur and Molière.
Chapter IX 103
The Rift in the Lute—In the Vexin—The Miracle of the Gardener’s Cottage—
Italian Opera in Paris—Parted Lovers—“Ninum”—Scarron and Françoise
d’Aubigné—Treachery—A Journey to Naples—Masaniello—Renewing
Acquaintances—Mazarin’s Mandate.
Chapter X 115
The Fronde and Mazarin—A Brittany Manor—Borrowed Locks—The Flight to St
Germains—A Gouty Duke—Across the Channel—The Evil Genius—The
Scaffold at Whitehall—Starving in the Louvre—The Mazarinade—Poverty—
Condé’s Indignation—The Cannon of the Bastille—The Young King.
Chapter XI 124
Invalids in the rue des Tournelles—On the Battlements—“La Grande
Mademoiselle”—Casting Lots—The Sacrifice—The Bag of Gold—“Get Thee to
a Convent”—The Battle of the Sonnets—A Curl-paper—The Triumph and
Defeat of Bacchus—A Secret Door—Cross Questions and Crooked Answers—
The Youthful Autocrat.
Chapter XX 228
The Crime of Madame Tiquet—A Charming Little Hand—Aqua Toffana—The
Casket—A Devout Criminal—The Sinner and the Saint—Monsieur de Lauzun’s
Boots—“Sister Louise”—La Fontange—“Madame de Maintenant”—The Blanks
in the Circle—The Vatican Fishes and their Good Example—Piety at Versailles
—The Periwigs and the Paniers—Père la Chaise—A Dull Court—Monsieur de
St Evrémond’s Decision.
251
Chapter XXII
Mademoiselle de L’Enclos’ Cercle—Madeleine de Scudéri—The Abbé Dubois
—“The French Calliope,” and the Romance of her Life—“Revenons à nos
Moutons”—A Resurrection?—Racine and his Detractors—“Esther”—Athalie and
St Cyr—Madame Guyon and the Quietists.
De la Rochefoucauld ” 48
Molière ” 100
St Evrémond ” 112
Anne de L’Enclos was born in Paris in 1615. She was the daughter
of Monsieur de L’Enclos, a gentleman of Touraine, and of his wife, a
member of the family of the Abra de Raconis of the Orléanois.
It would not be easy to find characteristics more diverse than
those distinguishing this pair. Their union was an alliance arranged
for them—a mariage de convenance. Diametrically opposite in
temperament, Monsieur was handsome and distinguished-looking;
while the face and figure of Madame were ordinary. She was
constitutionally timid, and intellectually narrow, devoted to
asceticism, and reserved in manner. She passed her time in
seclusion, dividing it between charitable works, the reading of pious
books, and attendance at Mass and the other services of the
Church. Monsieur de L’Enclos, on the other hand, was a votary of
every pleasure and delightful distraction the world could afford him.
Among them he counted duelling; he was a skilled swordsman, and
his rapier play was of the finest. A brave and gallant soldier, he had
served the royal cause during the later years of Henri IV., and so on
into the reign of Louis XIII. He was a bon vivant, and arms and
intrigue, which were as the breath of life to him, he sought after
wherever the choicest opportunities of those were likely to be found.
Notwithstanding, the rule of life-long bickering and mutual
reproach attending such ill-assorted unions, would seem to be
proved by its exception in the case of Ninon’s parents; since no
record of any such domestic strife stands against them. Bearing and
forbearing, they agreed to differ, and went their several ways—
Madame de L’Enclos undertaking the training and instruction of
Ninon in those earliest years, in the fond hope that there would be a
day when she should take the veil and become a nun. Before,
however, she attained to the years of as much discretion as she ever
possessed, she had arrived at the standpoint of the way she
intended to take of the life before her, which was to roll into years
that did not end until the dawning of the eighteenth century; and it in
no way included any such intention. So sturdily opposed to it,
indeed, was she, that it irresistibly suggests the possibility of her
being the inspiration of the old song—“Ninon wouldn’t be a nun”—
“I shan’t be a nun, I won’t be a nun,
I am so fond of pleasure that I won’t be a nun!”
For Ninon was her father’s child; almost all her inherited instincts
were from him. The endeavours of Madame de L’Enclos failed
disastrously. The monotony and rigid routine of the young girl’s life
repelled the bright, frank spirit, and drove it to opposite extreme,
resulting in sentiments of disgust for the pious observances of her
church; and taken there under compulsion day in, day out, she
usually contrived to substitute some plump little volume of romance,
or other light literature, at the function, for her Mass-book and
breviary, to while away the tedium.
In no very long time Monsieur de L’Enclos, noting the bent of his
daughter’s nature, himself took over her training. He carried it on, it
is scarcely necessary to say, upon a plane widely apart from the
mother’s. A man of refined intellect, he had studied the books and
philosophy of the renaissance of literature; and before Ninon was
eleven years old, while imbuing her with the love of reading such
books as the essays of Montaigne and the works of Charon, he
accustomed her to think and to reason for herself, an art of which
she very soon became a past-mistress, the result being an ardent
recognition of the law of liberty, and the Franciscan counsel of
perfection: “Fay ce qu’et voudray.” Ninon possessed an excellent gift
of tongues, cultivating it to the extent of acquiring fluently, Italian,
Spanish, and English, rendered the more easy of mastery from her
knowledge of Latin, which she so frequently quotes in her
correspondence.
Her love of music was great; she sang well, and was a proficient
on the lute, in which her father himself, a fine player, instructed her.
She conversed with facility, and doubtless took care to cultivate her
natural gifts in those days when the arts of conversation and
causerie were indispensable for shining in society, and she loved to
tell a good story; but she drew a distinct line at reciting. One day
when Mignard, the painter, deplored his handsome daughter’s
defective memory, she consoled him—“How fortunate you are,” she
said, “she cannot recite.”
The popular acceptation of Ninon de L’Enclos’ claims to celebrity
would appear to be her beauty, which she retained to almost the end
of her long life—a beauty that was notable; but it lay less in
perfection of the contours of her face, than in the glorious freshness
of her complexion, and the expression of her magnificent eyes, at
once vivacious and sympathetic, gentle and modest-glancing, yet
brilliant with voluptuous languor. Any defects of feature were
probably those which crowned their grace—and when as in the
matter of a slight wrinkle, which in advanced years she said had
rudely planted itself on her forehead, the courtly comment on this of
Monsieur de St Evrémond was to the effect that “Love had placed it
there to nestle in.” Her well-proportioned figure was a little above
middle height, and her dancing was infinitely graceful.
Provincial by descent, Mademoiselle de L’Enclos was a born
Parisian, in that word’s every sense. Her bright eyes first opened in a
small house lying within the shadows of Notre-Dame, the old Cité
itself, the heart of hearts of Paris, still at that time fair with green
spaces and leafy hedgerows, though these were to endure only a
few years longer. Her occasionally uttered wish that she had been
born a man, hardly calls for grave consideration. The desire to don
masculine garments and to ride and fence and shoot, and to indulge
generally in manly pursuits, occurred to her when she was still short
of twelve years old, by which time she was able to write well; and her
earliest epistolary correspondence included a letter addressed to her
father. It ran as follows:—