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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
He fell in love with Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora.
His grand aunt and her distant relative Mr. Dick came to London after her going bankrupt.
Now, He works as the secretary for Doctor Strong, who lives in Highgate now, in his spare time, who was the head master of the school the protagonist went to.
He just now visited Dora's best friend Miss Mill's house and told Dora his situation
Afterwords, she was being hysterical on and off, and when Miss Mill came in.
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I fondly explained to Dora that Jip should have his mutton-chop with his accustomed regularity. I drew a picture of our frugal home, made independent by my labour - sketching in the little house I had seen at Highgate, and my aunt in her room upstairs.
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I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet? But on Miss Mills observing, with despondency, that it were well indeed for some hearts if this were so, I explained that I begged leave to restrict the observation to mortals of the masculine gender.
I then put it to Miss Mills, to say whether she considered that there was or was not any practical merit in the suggestion I had been anxious to make, concerning the accounts, the housekeeping, and the Cookery Book?
Miss Mills, after some consideration, thus replied:
'Mr. Copperfield, I will be plain with you. Mental suffering and trial supply, in some natures, the place of years, and I will be as plain with you as if I were a Lady Abbess. No. The suggestion is not appropriate to our Dora. Our dearest Dora is a favourite child of nature. She is a thing of light, and airiness, and joy. I am free to confess that if it could be done, it might be well, but -' And Miss Mills shook her head.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I think two "who" interrogative sentences are the objects of "said."
So I was wondering why "and" is positioned before the former "who," not the latter "who," and why two sentence aren't enclosed with a pair of quotation marks.
2. I'd like to know what "well" means here.
3. I think in to infinitive phrase in red and blue, "she" refers to Miss Miss, not Dora.
And I was wondering why it is "to say whether she considered that," not "that say she considered whether."
4. I'd like to know why it is "of," not "in."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
He fell in love with Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora.
His grand aunt and her distant relative Mr. Dick came to London after her going bankrupt.
Now, He works as the secretary for Doctor Strong, who lives in Highgate now, in his spare time, who was the head master of the school the protagonist went to.
He just now visited Dora's best friend Miss Mill's house and told Dora his situation
Afterwords, she was being hysterical on and off, and when Miss Mill came in.
...............................
I fondly explained to Dora that Jip should have his mutton-chop with his accustomed regularity. I drew a picture of our frugal home, made independent by my labour - sketching in the little house I had seen at Highgate, and my aunt in her room upstairs.
.......................
I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet? But on Miss Mills observing, with despondency, that it were well indeed for some hearts if this were so, I explained that I begged leave to restrict the observation to mortals of the masculine gender.
I then put it to Miss Mills, to say whether she considered that there was or was not any practical merit in the suggestion I had been anxious to make, concerning the accounts, the housekeeping, and the Cookery Book?
Miss Mills, after some consideration, thus replied:
'Mr. Copperfield, I will be plain with you. Mental suffering and trial supply, in some natures, the place of years, and I will be as plain with you as if I were a Lady Abbess. No. The suggestion is not appropriate to our Dora. Our dearest Dora is a favourite child of nature. She is a thing of light, and airiness, and joy. I am free to confess that if it could be done, it might be well, but -' And Miss Mills shook her head.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I think two "who" interrogative sentences are the objects of "said."
So I was wondering why "and" is positioned before the former "who," not the latter "who," and why two sentence aren't enclosed with a pair of quotation marks.
2. I'd like to know what "well" means here.
3. I think in to infinitive phrase in red and blue, "she" refers to Miss Miss, not Dora.
And I was wondering why it is "to say whether she considered that," not "that say she considered whether."
4. I'd like to know why it is "of," not "in."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. The sentence is correct. " Quotation marks are not necessary here, since this is not a reproduction of a quotation.
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- The sentence is correct.
- " Quotation marks are not necessary here, since this is not a reproduction of a quotation.
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1. The sentence is correct. You have the conjunction "and" connecting to independent clauses, the first, a statement, the second, a question: "I said to Miss Mills...very true" and "who should know better...Dora with a love...yet?" Quotation marks are not necessary here, since this is not a reproduction of a quotation.
2. "It were well indeed" means "it would be good indeed."
2. "It were well indeed" means "it would be good indeed."
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park sang joon1. I think two "who" interrogative sentences are the objects of "said."No. Neither one is. Only "that this was very true" is a complement of "said".
"and who should know ..." is another case where the author speaks directly to the reader, asking the reader a rhetorical question.
You missed your big chance here! The second "w
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Thank you, CalifJim, for another so very helpful answer from you. 
2. Then I was wondering whom "some hearts" refers to in
2. Then I was wondering whom "some hearts" refers to in
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park sang joon"some hearts"a poetic way of saying "some people"
park sang joon"I then put it to Miss Mills, to say that~,"I then asked Miss Mills to tell me ~
I then proposed that Miss Mills should tell me ~
"it" can be thought of a dummy "it" for "to say that ~". Yes.
"put it to (someone) to ..." an
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