0
Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #3
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
Peggotty, the narator's old nurse's niece Em'ly fled with the narrator's best friend Steerforth to somewhere on the day when Peggotty's husband's funeral was held , leaving her fiance, her cousin Ham.
Mr. Peggotty, Peggoty's elder brother came to London with the narrator to seek for his niece the day after next.
Mr. Peggotty told him to arrange for him to meet Steerforth' mother and he wrote her a letter for the appointment.
And they visited Steerforth's house the next day and now Mr. Peggotty is talking to Steerforth's mother.
..............................
'I justify nothing. I make no counter-accusations. But I am sorry to repeat, it is impossible. Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son's career, and ruin his prospects. Nothing is more certain than that it never can take place, and never will. If there is any other compensation -'
'I am looking at the likeness of the face,' interrupted Mr. Peggotty, with a steady but a kindling eye, 'that has looked at me, in my home, at my fireside, in my boat - wheer not? - smiling and friendly, when it was so treacherous, that I go half wild when I think of it. If the likeness of that face don't turn to burning fire, at the thought of offering money to me for my child's blight and ruin, it's as bad. I doen't know, being a lady's, but what it's worse.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "wheer not?" means.
2. I'd like to know what "turn to burning fire" means.
3. I'd like to know "it' as bad" is the abbreviation of "it's as bad as it can be."
4. And I'd like to know what means "being a lady's, but what it's worse."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Peggotty, the narator's old nurse's niece Em'ly fled with the narrator's best friend Steerforth to somewhere on the day when Peggotty's husband's funeral was held , leaving her fiance, her cousin Ham.
Mr. Peggotty, Peggoty's elder brother came to London with the narrator to seek for his niece the day after next.
Mr. Peggotty told him to arrange for him to meet Steerforth' mother and he wrote her a letter for the appointment.
And they visited Steerforth's house the next day and now Mr. Peggotty is talking to Steerforth's mother.
..............................
'I justify nothing. I make no counter-accusations. But I am sorry to repeat, it is impossible. Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son's career, and ruin his prospects. Nothing is more certain than that it never can take place, and never will. If there is any other compensation -'
'I am looking at the likeness of the face,' interrupted Mr. Peggotty, with a steady but a kindling eye, 'that has looked at me, in my home, at my fireside, in my boat - wheer not? - smiling and friendly, when it was so treacherous, that I go half wild when I think of it. If the likeness of that face don't turn to burning fire, at the thought of offering money to me for my child's blight and ruin, it's as bad. I doen't know, being a lady's, but what it's worse.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "wheer not?" means.
2. I'd like to know what "turn to burning fire" means.
3. I'd like to know "it' as bad" is the abbreviation of "it's as bad as it can be."
4. And I'd like to know what means "being a lady's, but what it's worse."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
I believe that the "likeness of the face" is the mother and the "face" is Steerforth. 1. " indicates that there is no where that he can think of where he and that "face" have not been together.
- I believe that the "likeness of the face" is the mother and the "face" is Steerforth.
- 1.
- " indicates that there is no where that he can think of where he and that "face" have not been together.
- " 2.
- & 3.
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
3 Answers
0
I believe that the "likeness of the face" is the mother and the "face" is Steerforth.
1. He is naming a series of places where he has been seen by "the face." "Where not?" indicates that there is no where that he can think of where he and that "face" have not been together. "Where have I not been seen by him?"
2. & 3. He believes Steerforth has acted treacherously. If h
1. He is naming a series of places where he has been seen by "the face." "Where not?" indicates that there is no where that he can think of where he and that "face" have not been together. "Where have I not been seen by him?"
2. & 3. He believes Steerforth has acted treacherously. If h
00
Thank you, Doctor D, for another so very helpful answer from you. 
4. Then I was wondering why it is "being a lady's," not "bein
4. Then I was wondering why it is "being a lady's," not "bein
00
I think he means "being a lady's (action). It is her offer or her thought that is the problem.
0
Related Questions