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Sefton Hamilton was not a very nice man. The first time I met him was last year, when my wife and I were dining
with Henry and Susan Kennedy at their home in Warwick Square. I didn’t like
Hamilton at first   2 ___________.
Hamilton was one of those
unfortunate men who inherited immense wealth but not a lot more. He was able to
convince us that he had little time to read and no time to attend the theatre
or opera. Actually, he was not 3 ________ in anything but himself. 4 __________, this did not prevent him from holding opinions on every subject
from Shaw to Pavarotti, from Gorbachev to Picasso. He couldn’t understand, for
instance, why the unemployed were so unhappy when their welfare check was just
a little less than what he was currently paying the workers on his estate.
The other dinner guest that
night was Freddie Barker, the President of the Wine Society, who sat opposite
my wife. Unlike Hamilton, he 5 _________ uttered a word.

• merely
• nearly
• hardly
• closely