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MIG Posted 12 years ago
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Please help me to understand bold parts.
Louisa was twenty-five years old and had been in love once, with a doctor she had known in the sanitorium. Her love was returned, eventually, costing the doctor his job. There was some harsh doubt in her mind about whether he had been told to leave the sanitorium or had left of his own accord, being weary of the entanglement. He was married, he had children. Letters had played a part that time, too. After he left, they were still writing to one another. And once or twice after she was released. Then she asked him not to write anymore and he didn't. But the failure of his letters to arrive drove her out of Toronto and made her take the traveling job. Then there would be only the one disappointment in the week, when she got back on Friday or Saturday night. Her last letter had been firm and stoical, and some consciousness of herself as a heroine of love's tragedy went with her around the country as she hauled her display cases up and down the stairs of small hotels and talked about Paris styles and said that her sample hats were bewitching, and drank her solitary glass of wine. If she'd had anybody to tell, though, she would have laughed at just that notion. She would have said love was all hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant prostration.
Please help me to understand bold parts.
Louisa was twenty-five years old and had been in love once, with a doctor she had known in the sanitorium. Her love was returned, eventually, costing the doctor his job. There was some harsh doubt in her mind about whether he had been told to leave the sanitorium or had left of his own accord, being weary of the entanglement. He was married, he had children. Letters had played a part that time, too. After he left, they were still writing to one another. And once or twice after she was released. Then she asked him not to write anymore and he didn't. But the failure of his letters to arrive drove her out of Toronto and made her take the traveling job. Then there would be only the one disappointment in the week, when she got back on Friday or Saturday night. Her last letter had been firm and stoical, and some consciousness of herself as a heroine of love's tragedy went with her around the country as she hauled her display cases up and down the stairs of small hotels and talked about Paris styles and said that her sample hats were bewitching, and drank her solitary glass of wine. If she'd had anybody to tell, though, she would have laughed at just that notion. She would have said love was all hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant prostration.
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When she was staying at home during the week, she had the disappointment every day of no letters arriving. When she was travelling during the week she had that disappointment only once, when she came back home for the weekend and found that no letters were wating. g.
- When she was staying at home during the week, she had the disappointment every day of no letters arriving.
- When she was travelling during the week she had that disappointment only once, when she came back home for the weekend and found that no letters were wating.
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- any friends or companions), she would have laughed at the notion that she was "a heroine of love's tragedy".
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When she was staying at home during the week, she had the disappointment every day of no letters arriving. When she was travelling during the week she had that disappointment only once, when she came back home for the weekend and found that no letters were wating.
If she'd had anybody to tell (e.g. any friends or companions), she would have laughed at the notion that she was "a heroine of
If she'd had anybody to tell (e.g. any friends or companions), she would have laughed at the notion that she was "a heroine of
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Thank you very much dear GPY.
The second part was relatively much more closer to what I was thinking but I should admit that first part was far away from what I had deduced after reading that paragraph many times.
I think it would be a lot more easier to understand if I link that two sentences by the conjunction "so", like this:
The second part was relatively much more closer to what I was thinking but I should admit that first part was far away from what I had deduced after reading that paragraph many times.
I think it would be a lot more easier to understand if I link that two sentences by the conjunction "so", like this:
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MIGBut the failure of his letters to arrive drove her out of Toronto and made her take the traveling job so then there would be only the one disappointment in the week, when she got back on Friday or Saturday night.Right, this means the same, though I would put a comma after "job". However, it is fairly common to use "then" by itself to indicate that one thin
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