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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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How that best frock do set her off?
1)Does "how that best frock do set her off" mean "how that best (women's dress) has fully made her physical charm displayed"?
2) Does " set her friends right on the matter" mean "renounce her friends right away"?
Context:
“How pretty she is; and how that best frock do set her off! I believe it cost an immense deal, and that it was a gift from him.”
Tess, who was reaching up to get the tea-things from the corner-cupboard, did not hear these commentaries. If she had heard them, she might soon have set her friends right on the matter. But her mother heard, and Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation. Upon the whole she felt gratified, even though such a limited and evanescent triumph should involve her daughter's reputation; it might end in marriage yet, and in the warmth of her responsiveness to their admiration she invited her visitors to stay to tea.
2) Does " set her friends right on the matter" mean "renounce her friends right away"?
Context:
“How pretty she is; and how that best frock do set her off! I believe it cost an immense deal, and that it was a gift from him.”
Tess, who was reaching up to get the tea-things from the corner-cupboard, did not hear these commentaries. If she had heard them, she might soon have set her friends right on the matter. But her mother heard, and Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation. Upon the whole she felt gratified, even though such a limited and evanescent triumph should involve her daughter's reputation; it might end in marriage yet, and in the warmth of her responsiveness to their admiration she invited her visitors to stay to tea.
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NL888 1)Does "how that best frock do set her off" mean "how that best (women's dress) has fully made her physical charm displayed"? Yes. NL888 2) Does " set her friends right on the matter" mean "renounce her friends right away"?
- NL888 1)Does "how that best frock do set her off" mean "how that best (women's dress) has fully made her physical charm displayed"?
- Yes.
- NL888 2) Does " set her friends right on the matter" mean "renounce her friends right away"?
- No, 'corrected her friends opinion on the matter'.
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NL8881)Does "how that best frock do set her off" mean "how that best (women's dress) has fully made her physical charm displayed"?Yes.
NL8882) Does " set her friends right on the matter" mean "renounce her friends right away"?No, 'corrected her friends opinion on the matter'.
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Thanks.
In "Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation," does "fed itself" mean "fed the sample vanity itself"?
And "as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation" means "just like the vanity could feed upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation"?
In "Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation," does "fed itself" mean "fed the sample vanity itself"?
And "as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation" means "just like the vanity could feed upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation"?
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NL888does "fed itself" mean "fed the sample vanity itself"?No—'upon the sensation of flirtation', just as it says,
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Did you mean "itself" refers to "the sensation of flirtation"?
Supposed "the sensation of flirtation" to be some kind of chocolate, the simple vanity now feeds itself with the chocolate. That is what the author means by saying "fed itself"?
Supposed "the sensation of flirtation" to be some kind of chocolate, the simple vanity now feeds itself with the chocolate. That is what the author means by saying "fed itself"?
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The problem may be that I mistake the meaning of "as well as it could". Does "as well as it could" mean "just like the vanity could feed upon"?
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NL888Supposed "the sensation of flirtation" to be some kind of chocolateThat is an inappropriate comparison. There is no eating involved.
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