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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
His old nurse Pegotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James, leaving her fiance behind.
Mr. James's servant Mr. Littimer told the whole process of it to him and Mr. James's cousin Miss Dartle.
The result was, after Mr. James leaving behind Mr. Littimer and Emily at Naples, Emily's mood got worse and worse and ran away from Mr. Littimer.
Here "she" refers to Miss Dartle.
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'He says besides,' she observed, with a slow curling of her lip, 'that his master, as he hears, is coasting Spain; and this done, is away to gratify his seafaring tastes till he is weary. But this is of no interest to you. Between these two proud persons, mother and son, there is a wider breach than before, and little hope of its healing, for they are one at heart, and time makes each more obstinate and imperious. Neither is this of any interest to you; but it introduces what I wish to say. This devil whom you make an angel of. I mean this low girl whom he picked out of the tide-mud,' with her black eyes full upon me, and her passionate finger up, 'may be alive, - for I believe some common things are hard to die. If she is, you will desire to have a pearl of such price found and taken care of. We desire that, too; that he may not by any chance be made her prey again. So far, we are united in one interest; and that is why I, who would do her any mischief that so coarse a wretch is capable of feeling, have sent for you to hear what you have heard.'
I saw, by the change in her face, that someone was advancing behind me. It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived - and I was touched by it - with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son. She was greatly altered. Her fine figure was far less upright, her handsome face was deeply marked, and her hair was almost white. But when she sat down on the seat, she was a handsome lady still; and well I knew the bright eye with its lofty look, that had been a light in my very dreams at school.
'Is Mr. Copperfield informed of everything, Rosa?'
'Yes.'
'And has he heard Littimer himself?'
'Yes; I have told him why you wished it.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know why "it" is "for," not "though."
2. I'd like to know why it is "feel any mischief," not "suffer any mischief."
3. I'd like to know what "was deeply marked" means.
4. I'd like to know if "from" is omitted before "Littimer."
Thank you in advance for your help.
His old nurse Pegotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James, leaving her fiance behind.
Mr. James's servant Mr. Littimer told the whole process of it to him and Mr. James's cousin Miss Dartle.
The result was, after Mr. James leaving behind Mr. Littimer and Emily at Naples, Emily's mood got worse and worse and ran away from Mr. Littimer.
Here "she" refers to Miss Dartle.
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'He says besides,' she observed, with a slow curling of her lip, 'that his master, as he hears, is coasting Spain; and this done, is away to gratify his seafaring tastes till he is weary. But this is of no interest to you. Between these two proud persons, mother and son, there is a wider breach than before, and little hope of its healing, for they are one at heart, and time makes each more obstinate and imperious. Neither is this of any interest to you; but it introduces what I wish to say. This devil whom you make an angel of. I mean this low girl whom he picked out of the tide-mud,' with her black eyes full upon me, and her passionate finger up, 'may be alive, - for I believe some common things are hard to die. If she is, you will desire to have a pearl of such price found and taken care of. We desire that, too; that he may not by any chance be made her prey again. So far, we are united in one interest; and that is why I, who would do her any mischief that so coarse a wretch is capable of feeling, have sent for you to hear what you have heard.'
I saw, by the change in her face, that someone was advancing behind me. It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived - and I was touched by it - with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son. She was greatly altered. Her fine figure was far less upright, her handsome face was deeply marked, and her hair was almost white. But when she sat down on the seat, she was a handsome lady still; and well I knew the bright eye with its lofty look, that had been a light in my very dreams at school.
'Is Mr. Copperfield informed of everything, Rosa?'
'Yes.'
'And has he heard Littimer himself?'
'Yes; I have told him why you wished it.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know why "it" is "for," not "though."
2. I'd like to know why it is "feel any mischief," not "suffer any mischief."
3. I'd like to know what "was deeply marked" means.
4. I'd like to know if "from" is omitted before "Littimer."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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1. " I think Dickens mans that they both have the same character, ie obstinate. 2.
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- " I think Dickens mans that they both have the same character, ie obstinate.
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- " Perhaps 'feel mischief' was more common in Dickens' time, Or perhaps he just liked the phrase.
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1. I'd like to know why "it" is "for," not "though." I think Dickens mans that they both have the same character, ie obstinate.
2. I'd like to know why it is "feel any mischief," not "suffer any mischief." Perhaps 'feel mischief' was more common in Dickens' time, Or perhaps he just liked the phrase.
3. I'd like to know what "was deeply marked" means. had deep li
2. I'd like to know why it is "feel any mischief," not "suffer any mischief." Perhaps 'feel mischief' was more common in Dickens' time, Or perhaps he just liked the phrase.
3. I'd like to know what "was deeply marked" means. had deep li
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know why "it" is "for," not "though."for ~ because / because they are both stubborn; neither will yield to the other.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know why it is "feel any mischief," not "suffer any mischief."It makes no difference as the two are synonymous in the given context.
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