"I feel somehow enormously disappointed. I had expected--I don't know what I had expected, but not this." These were the last words of Mr. Bedford in Chapter Six of The First Men in the Moon. After finally having landed on the moon, his excitement is extinguished as he realizes he can’t see anything through the glass of the sphere. Write about a time when you were looking forward to going somewhere, but felt disappointed with what you saw and experienced when you arrived. Relate your experience to Mr. Bedford’s.

Armed with invisible ink, a cipher system, and a passion to end the war and preserve the union, elizabeth van lew became butler's eyes and ears in the confederate capital city. truth be told, however, she became much more than that. she became a spymaster, the person responsible for running a network of agents, couriers, and safe houses that was very active during the war. in addition to the spying, elizabeth van lew continued to maintain her church hill home as a safe house and something of a local union spy headquarters. —the dark game, paul janeczko what is the central idea of this passage? van lew’s home was used as a safe house, which was critical to the confederacy. van lew had a passion to end the war and preserve the union. van lew was a spymaster, a leading force in the espionage activities for the union. van lew did not enjoy working for general butler.