The Midnight visitor class 10 chapter 3 Revision Notes
CBSE The Midnight Visitor class 10 chapter 3 Revision Notes English Footprints without feet detailed Notes of the Lesson along with highlights of chapter 3 were prepared based on the latest exam pattern we have provided The Midnight visitor class 10 chapter 3 Revision Notes to help students understand the concept very well
Chapter sketch
Ausable, a secret agent is expecting to get a very important report another secret agent max, threatens him with a pistol, demanding the report this story tells how Ausable outwits max by making up convincing stories
About the Characters
- Ausable:” he is a secret agent who does not look like one at all but shows the great presence of mind to outwit another secret agent
- Fowler:” He is a young and romantic writer who is looking for some excitement in the company of a secret agent like Ausable
- Max:” A rival secret agent who is fooled by Ausable and falls to his death
Overview of the chapter :”
Meeting of secret Agent Ausable and writer Fowler:”
Ausable was a smart secret agent but did not look like one at all being short and very fat fowler was a young writer who wanted to write about Ausable and so spent an evening with him Fowler was feeling disappointed so far as he could not find any characteristics of a secret in Ausable
Another Secret Agent max is seen with a Pistol:”
when both Ausable and fowler entered Ausable’s hotel room another secret agent rammed max was waiting in the room with an automatic pistol pointed at them max was there because he had come to know that Ausable was going to receive an important report about some new missiles that night Max threatened to shoot if Ausable tired to act smart
Ausable Confuses Max:”
To ensure the report’s safety as well as his own and the writer’s safety Ausable invented a story about anybody entering his room easily through a balcony just below the window in his room actually there was no balcony-if anybody climbed out from the window he would fall to his death as the room was on the sixth floor however Max told them that he had entered the room through the door using a passkey
Max Jumps In the Non-existing Balcony and Dies:”
Suddenly there was a knocking on the door and Ausable pretended that it was the local police who had been asked to provided him extra security for the important document he was about to receive when the knocking was repeated max became angry at Ausable and decided to wait in the balcony (which he thought existed ) until the police went away he stepped out of the window and fell to his death when the door opened a waiter came in with drinks which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his room when he had returned to the hotel”
Chapter Highlights
- Ausable was a smart secret agent but did not look like one at all , being short and very fat fowler was a young writer who wanted to write about Ausable and so spent an evening with him
- when both of them returned to Ausable’s sixth floor hotel room another secret agent named max was waiting for them with a gun so that he could take the important report on new missiles from Ausable
- To ensure the report’s and their own safety Ausable invented a story about anobody entering his room easily through a balcony just below the window in his room actually there was no balcony
- suddenly there was a knowing on the door and Ausable pretended that it was the local police
- when the knowing was repeated max decided to wait in the balcony (which he thought existed ) until the police went away he stepped out of the window and fell to his death
- when the door opened a waiter came in with drinks which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his room when he had returned to the hotel
Word Meanings
The given page nos, correspond to the pages in the prescribed textbook
| WORD | MEANINGS |
| Musty | smelling of mold/ fungus |
| gloomy | cheerless |
| let down | disappointed |
| setting | place |
| romantic adventure | exciting happening |
| accent | way of pronouncing words in a language |
| passable | just well enough to be understood |
| wheezily | with a whistling sound |
| espionage | spying |
| envisioned | imagined |
| music hall | the hall where musical programs are held |
| sloppy | carelessly dressed |
| slipped | passed secretly |
| beauties | beautiful women |
| prosaic | routine / ordinary |
| word | meaning |
| Chuckled | laughed quietly without opening the mouth |
| Frustrated | bored |
| disillusioned | disappointed |
| take cheer | be happy |
| Presently | soon |
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| come | will be delivered |
| affect the course of history | change what happens |
| drama | excitement |
| authentic thrill | a real feeling of excitement |
| wheezed | spoke breathing noisily and heavily |
| start | shock |
| slender | gracefully thin |
| crafty pointed countenace | cunning look |
| Menacing | dangerous |
| Missiles | directed weapons |
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| Heavily | with force |
| raise the devil | make a strong protest |
| grimy | seriously |
| nuisance | causing annoyance |
| pressing blackly | showing total darkness |
| infection | change of tone |
| passkey | duplicate key |
| block it off | close it |
| moodily | sadly |
| evilly | wickedly |
| Protection | security |
| Check on | meet |
| backed swiftly | went back quickly |
| take my changes | depend on my luck |
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| shrilly | Piercingly/ at a high pitch |
| deftly | neatly and skilfully |
| uncorked | removed the top cover |
| white-faced | pale from fear |