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Arashjan Posted 12 years ago
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I could never have believed that I could take this from anybody
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There is a paragraph in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow that I can't understand. I can't make out to which the writer mean by "this" at the following sentences and what does he mean by "take this from anybody". Can anybody help me. Thank you very much.
Good impresses you, eh, Mr. Henderson?” Said the King.
I said, “Yes, Your Highness. No bunk. The true good. The honest-to-God good.”
“Yes, I know how you feel over it,” he said, and spoke with a weird softness or longing. I could never have believed that I could take this from anybody, or would ever have to, and least of all from this person in the royal hammock.
There is a paragraph in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow that I can't understand. I can't make out to which the writer mean by "this" at the following sentences and what does he mean by "take this from anybody". Can anybody help me. Thank you very much.
Good impresses you, eh, Mr. Henderson?” Said the King.
I said, “Yes, Your Highness. No bunk. The true good. The honest-to-God good.”
“Yes, I know how you feel over it,” he said, and spoke with a weird softness or longing. I could never have believed that I could take this from anybody, or would ever have to, and least of all from this person in the royal hammock.
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As far as I can tell from this excerpt, "take this from anybody" means "tolerate anybody saying such things to me / treating me in such a way".
- As far as I can tell from this excerpt, "take this from anybody" means "tolerate anybody saying such things to me / treating me in such a way".
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As far as I can tell from this excerpt, "take this from anybody" means "tolerate anybody saying such things to me / treating me in such a way".
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