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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He just now visited Peggoty's, who lives his home town with her husband, a coach man, Mr. Barkis.
And he meets Mr. Barkis.
He received me with absolute enthusiasm. He was too rheumatic to be shaken hands with, but he begged me to shake the tassel on the top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially. When I sat down by the side of the bed, he said that it did him a world of good to feel as if he was driving me on the Blunderstone road again. As he lay in bed, face upward, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face?like a conventional cherubim?he looked the queerest object I ever beheld.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "that exception" means.
2. And I'd like to know the participle phrase "face upward, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face" modifies "As he lay in bed."
He just now visited Peggoty's, who lives his home town with her husband, a coach man, Mr. Barkis.
And he meets Mr. Barkis.
He received me with absolute enthusiasm. He was too rheumatic to be shaken hands with, but he begged me to shake the tassel on the top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially. When I sat down by the side of the bed, he said that it did him a world of good to feel as if he was driving me on the Blunderstone road again. As he lay in bed, face upward, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face?like a conventional cherubim?he looked the queerest object I ever beheld.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "that exception" means.
2. And I'd like to know the participle phrase "face upward, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face" modifies "As he lay in bed."
Top answer
park sang joon 1. I'd like to know what "that exception" means. His face: he is covered except for his face.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know what "that exception" means.
- His face: he is covered except for his face.
- park sang joon 2.
- And I'd like to know the participle phrase "face upward, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face" modifies "As he lay in bed.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "that exception" means.His face: he is covered except for his face.
park sang joon2. And I'd like to know the participle phrase "face upward, and so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be nothing but a face" modifies "As he lay in bed.I don't understand your problem.
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for your so very kind answer. 
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I don't understand your problem.
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park sang joon I'd like to know if that indicates the state of "he."Yes, that is Barkis's position. But the participial phase begins with 'covered', not 'face'.
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