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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 and Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora fell in love with each other.
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.
Dora's guardian Miss Murdstone discovered their secret love affair and disclosed it to Mr. Spenlow.
And Mr. Spenlow called the narrator into a coffee house, where Miss Murdstone was waiting for.

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'You are probably aware, Mr. Copperfield, that I am not altogether destitute of worldly possessions, and that my daughter is my nearest and dearest relative?'
I hurriedly made him a reply to the effect, that I hoped the error into which I had been betrayed by the desperate nature of my love, did not induce him to think me mercenary too?
'I don't allude to the matter in that light,' said Mr. Spenlow. 'It would be better for yourself, and all of us, if you WERE mercenary, Mr. Copperfield - I mean, if you were more discreet and less influenced by all this youthful nonsense. No. I merely say, with quite another view, you are probably aware I have some property to bequeath to my child?'
I certainly supposed so.
'And you can hardly think,' said Mr. Spenlow, 'having experience of what we see, in the Commons here, every day, of the various unaccountable and negligent proceedings of men, in respect of their testamentary arrangements - of all subjects, the one on which perhaps the strangest revelations of human inconsistency are to be met with - but that mine are made?'
I inclined my head in acquiescence.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "be met with on" means.
2. And I'd like to know what "but that min are made?" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon 1. I'd like to know what "be met with" means. to be encountered; to experience.

  • park sang joon 1.
  • I'd like to know what "be met with" means.
  • to be encountered; to experience.
  • 'On' means 'about' park sang joon 2.
  • " means.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "be met with" means.
to be encountered; to experience.

'On' means 'about'
park sang joon2. And I'd like to know what "but that min are made?" means.
I have made my careful testamentary arrangements.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "be met with on" means.
'met with' is one group. 'on' is in another group.

The strangest revelations of human inconsistency are [met with / observed / seen / noticed] on this one subject.

I believe "this one subject" is love.
park sang joon2. And I'd like to know what "but that

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