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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He and his friend Steerforth just now made a surprise visit at his old nurse's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's when Mr. Peggotty's nephew and adopted son Ham announced he proposed to Mr. Peggotty's niece Em'ly.
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"Well, I counsels him to speak to Em'ly. He's big enough, but he's bashfuller than a little un' and he don't like. So I speak. 'What! Him! says Em'ly. 'Him that I've know'd so intimate so many years, and like so much. Oh Uncle! I never can have him. He's such a good fellow!' I gives her a kiss, and I says no more to her than 'My dear, you're right to speak out, you're to choose for yourself, you're as free as a little bird.' Then I aways to him, and I says, 'I wish it could have been so, but it can't. But you can both be as you was, and wot I say to you is, Be as you was with her, like a man.' He says to me, a shaking of my hand, 'I will!' he say. And he was?honourable and manful?for two year going on, and we was just the same at home here as afore."
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what difference is between "he don't like" and "he won't like."
2. I'd like to know what "I aways to him" means.
3. I think "a shaking of my hand" should be a participle
So I was wondering what role the noun phrase "a shaking of my hand" plays here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He and his friend Steerforth just now made a surprise visit at his old nurse's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's when Mr. Peggotty's nephew and adopted son Ham announced he proposed to Mr. Peggotty's niece Em'ly.
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"Well, I counsels him to speak to Em'ly. He's big enough, but he's bashfuller than a little un' and he don't like. So I speak. 'What! Him! says Em'ly. 'Him that I've know'd so intimate so many years, and like so much. Oh Uncle! I never can have him. He's such a good fellow!' I gives her a kiss, and I says no more to her than 'My dear, you're right to speak out, you're to choose for yourself, you're as free as a little bird.' Then I aways to him, and I says, 'I wish it could have been so, but it can't. But you can both be as you was, and wot I say to you is, Be as you was with her, like a man.' He says to me, a shaking of my hand, 'I will!' he say. And he was?honourable and manful?for two year going on, and we was just the same at home here as afore."
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what difference is between "he don't like" and "he won't like."
2. I'd like to know what "I aways to him" means.
3. I think "a shaking of my hand" should be a participle
So I was wondering what role the noun phrase "a shaking of my hand" plays here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. e. he isn't keen to speak to Emily.
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- he isn't keen to speak to Emily.
- "he don't" instead of "he doesn't" is dialect or uneducated speech.
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1. "he don't like" seems to be an abbreviated way of saying "he doesn't like it", i.e. he isn't keen to speak to Emily. "he don't" instead of "he doesn't" is dialect or uneducated speech.
2. "away" is used as a verb, meaning to leave and go to another place, i.e. the speaker went to visit him. This use is old-fashioned or dialect (or nowadays poetic). "I aways to him" instead of "I away t
2. "away" is used as a verb, meaning to leave and go to another place, i.e. the speaker went to visit him. This use is old-fashioned or dialect (or nowadays poetic). "I aways to him" instead of "I away t
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