P27
1. shield: protect, safeguard, cover, hide, screen
P28
2.
settled people: people with good social establishment;
well-off people who lead settled lives
(1) take to: begin to like
(2) trail off: to move away in an aimless way; to
loose strength gradually
(3) …but these days…: The unfinished sentence might
mean: but these days life id so hard for the blacks.
