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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is beginning a new life as an apprentice in Doctors' Commons at London.
The narrator's best friend Steerforth and his Oxford friends came over to the narrator's apartment to dinner.
They are drinking the wine after dinner, talking about private things.
Grainger is one of two Steerforht's Oxford friends.
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I began by being singularly cheerful and light-hearted; all sorts of half-forgotten things to talk about came rushing into my mind, and made me hold forth in a most unwonted manner. I laughed heartily at my own jokes, and everybody else's, called Steerforth to order for not passing the wine, made several engagements to go to Oxford, announced that I meant to have a dinner-party exactly like that, once a week until further notice, and madly took so much snuff out of Grainger's box that I was obliged to go into the pantry, and have a private fit of sneezing ten minute long.
I went on by passing the wine faster and faster yet, and continually starting up with a corkscrew to open more wine, long before any was needed.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know "to talk/ talking" is implied after "began."
2. I'd like to know if "half-forgotten things" means "things which would be half forgotten."
3. I'd like to what "to order for not passing the wine" means
4. And I'd like to know "drinking" is implied after "went on."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is beginning a new life as an apprentice in Doctors' Commons at London.
The narrator's best friend Steerforth and his Oxford friends came over to the narrator's apartment to dinner.
They are drinking the wine after dinner, talking about private things.
Grainger is one of two Steerforht's Oxford friends.
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I began by being singularly cheerful and light-hearted; all sorts of half-forgotten things to talk about came rushing into my mind, and made me hold forth in a most unwonted manner. I laughed heartily at my own jokes, and everybody else's, called Steerforth to order for not passing the wine, made several engagements to go to Oxford, announced that I meant to have a dinner-party exactly like that, once a week until further notice, and madly took so much snuff out of Grainger's box that I was obliged to go into the pantry, and have a private fit of sneezing ten minute long.
I went on by passing the wine faster and faster yet, and continually starting up with a corkscrew to open more wine, long before any was needed.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know "to talk/ talking" is implied after "began."
2. I'd like to know if "half-forgotten things" means "things which would be half forgotten."
3. I'd like to what "to order for not passing the wine" means
4. And I'd like to know "drinking" is implied after "went on."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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1. " talking and doing things 2. " 3.
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- " talking and doing things 2.
- " 3.
- I'd like to what "to order for not passing the wine" means call someone to order >>>> rebuke someone, tell someone to behave properly ie I rebuked him for not passing the wine 4.
- " all my evening's activities, eg drinking, laughing, talking, joking.
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1. I'd like to know "to talk/ talking" is implied after "began." talking and doing things
2. I'd like to know if "half-forgotten things" means "things which I had half forgotten."
3. I'd like to what "to order for not passing the wine" means
call someone to order >>>> rebuke someone, tell someone to behave properly
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1. The word "things" (or "the party" or "the festivities") is implied after "I began."
2. "Half-forgotten things" are things that happened to the speaker in the past and that he had all but forgotten until this party.
3. This means he scolded Steerforth ("called Steerforth to order") for not pouring the wine quickly enough.
4. This means that after leaving the party
2. "Half-forgotten things" are things that happened to the speaker in the past and that he had all but forgotten until this party.
3. This means he scolded Steerforth ("called Steerforth to order") for not pouring the wine quickly enough.
4. This means that after leaving the party
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passing the wine means handing the bottle to the person sitting beside you.
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