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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

Help to understand a sentence from "The lumber room"

Hello! Could anybody help me to understand a sentence from «The lumber room» (by Saki).


The passage is : «Only that morning he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly
 frivolous ground that there was a frog in it.«….» Older and wiser and better people had told him that there 
could not possibly be a frog in his bread-and-milk and that he was not to talk nonsense. «…». The dramatic part of the 
incident was that there really was a frog in Nicholas' basin of bread-and-milk; he had put it there himself, so he felt entitled
 to know something about it. The sin of taking a frog from the garden and putting it into a bowl of wholesome
 bread-and-milk was enlarged on at great length….»




I can’t understand the last sentence. Who did enlarge on the sin? Does it mean that Nicholas told about his sin himself or this sentence implies that «older and wiser and better people» were discussing his sin in great detail?



Thanks in advance
  

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Hi, You are right. this sentence implies that «older and wiser and better people» were discussing his sin in great detail The idea is that somehow they found out what he had done. Best wishes, Clive

  • Hi, You are right.
  • this sentence implies that «older and wiser and better people» were discussing his sin in great detail The idea is that somehow they found out what he had done.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

You are right. this sentence implies that «older and wiser and better people» were discussing his sin in great detail The idea is that somehow they found out what he had done.

Best wishes, Clive
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Thanks for your comments. They were very helpful indeed.

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