A Why did everyone become distressed, especially Bilbo who wept?
B Describe in your own words the bath in the river.
C Describe Beron using the information provided.
A. The group becomes distressed when Gandalf announces that he is leaving to attend to business.
"I always meant to see you all safe (if possible) over the mountains," said the wizard, "and now by good management and good luck I have done it. Indeed we are now a good deal further east than I ever meant to come with you, for after all this is not my adventure. I may look in on it again before it is all over, but in the meanwhile I have some other pressing business to attend to."
The dwarves groaned and looked most distressed, and Bilbo wept.
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The Hobbit
