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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
Doctor Strong's young, attractive wife speaks her sincereness about the Doctor.
People have suspected Mrs. Strong has a love affair with her cousin Maldon.
And her mother has continuously asked Mr. Strong to support her family members financially.
Mr. Wickfield is the local lawyer and Doctor Strong's friend.

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'Mama is blameless,' she went on, 'of having ever urged you for herself, and she is blameless in intention every way, I am sure, - but when I saw how many importunate claims were pressed upon you in my name; how you were traded on in my name; how generous you were, and how Mr. Wickfield, who had your welfare very much at heart, resented it; the first sense of my exposure to the mean suspicion that my tenderness was bought - and sold to you, of all men on earth - fell upon me like unmerited disgrace, in which I forced you to participate. I cannot tell you what it was - mama cannot imagine what it was - to have this dread and trouble always on my mind, yet know in my own soul that on my marriage-day I crowned the love and honour of my life!'
'A specimen of the thanks one gets,' cried Mrs. Markleham, in tears, 'for taking care of one's family! I wish I was a Turk!'
('I wish you were, with all my heart - and in your native country!' said my aunt.)
'It was at that time that mama was most solicitous about my Cousin Maldon. I had liked him': she spoke softly, but without any hesitation: 'very much. We had been little lovers once. If circumstances had not happened otherwise, I might have come to persuade myself that I really loved him, and might have married him, and been most wretched. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.'
I pondered on those words, even while I was studiously attending to what followed, as if they had some particular interest, or some strange application that I could not divine. 'There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose' -'no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.'
'There is nothing,' said Annie, 'that we have in common. I have long found that there is nothing. If I were thankful to my husband for no more, instead of for so much, I should be thankful to him for having saved me from the first mistaken impulse of my undisciplined heart.'
She stood quite still, before the Doctor, and spoke with an earnestness that thrilled me. Yet her voice was just as quiet as before.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "in intention every way" means.
2. I'd like to know why it is "my tenderness," not "me."
3. And I'd like to know what "crowned" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon 1. I'd like to know what " she is blameless in intention every way" means. She did not have any such intention whatsoever park sang joon 2.

  • park sang joon 1.
  • I'd like to know what " she is blameless in intention every way" means.
  • She did not have any such intention whatsoever park sang joon 2.
  • ' park sang joon 3.
  • And I'd like to know what "crowned" means.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "she is blameless in intention every way" means.
She did not have any such intention whatsoever
park sang joon2. I'd like to know why it is "my tenderness," not "me."
It means ' her naiveté.'
park sang joon3. And I'd like to know what "crowned" mean
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1. The main phrase is "blameless in intention" (I have nothing to blame myself for what I intended to do). So "every way" modifies "blameless" and not "in intention" (I am blameless in every way -- there is nothing to blame me for).
2. In any case, it would be "I" (not "me") ... the suspicion that I was bought." But she is not talking about herself in general, but her tender feelin

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