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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James, leaving her fiance behind.
Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty has sought for her niece Emily after her leaving.
Emily's old friend Martha found out her, kept her in her lodging.
Now Martha leads the narrator to the place.
Several of the back windows on the staircase had been darkened or wholly blocked up. In those that remained, there was scarcely any glass; and, through the crumbling frames by which the bad air seemed always to come in, and never to go out, I saw, through other glassless windows, into other houses in a similar condition, and looked giddily down into a wretched yard, which was the common dust-heap of the mansion.
We proceeded to the top-storey of the house. Two or three times, by the way, I thought I observed in the indistinct light the skirts of a female figure going up before us. As we turned to ascend the last flight of stairs between us and the roof, we caught a full view of this figure pausing for a moment, at a door. Then it turned the handle, and went in.
'What's this!' said Martha, in a whisper. 'She has gone into my room. I don't know her!'
I knew her. I had recognized her with amazement, for Miss Dartle.
I said something to the effect that it was a lady whom I had seen before, in a few words, to my conductress; and had scarcely done so, when we heard her voice in the room, though not, from where we stood, what she was saying. Martha, with an astonished look, repeated her former action, and softly led me up the stairs; and then, by a little back-door which seemed to have no lock, and which she pushed open with a touch, into a small empty garret with a low sloping roof, little better than a cupboard. Between this, and the room she had called hers, there was a small door of communication, standing partly open. Here we stopped, breathless with our ascent, and she placed her hand lightly on my lips.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the blue adverbial phrases qualifies "saw."
2. I'd like to know what "for" means.
3. I'd like to know both "her voice" and "what she was saying" is objects of "heard."
4. And I'd like to know why it is "of," not "for."
Thank you in advance for your help.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James, leaving her fiance behind.
Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty has sought for her niece Emily after her leaving.
Emily's old friend Martha found out her, kept her in her lodging.
Now Martha leads the narrator to the place.
Chapter 50 Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
.................................Several of the back windows on the staircase had been darkened or wholly blocked up. In those that remained, there was scarcely any glass; and, through the crumbling frames by which the bad air seemed always to come in, and never to go out, I saw, through other glassless windows, into other houses in a similar condition, and looked giddily down into a wretched yard, which was the common dust-heap of the mansion.
We proceeded to the top-storey of the house. Two or three times, by the way, I thought I observed in the indistinct light the skirts of a female figure going up before us. As we turned to ascend the last flight of stairs between us and the roof, we caught a full view of this figure pausing for a moment, at a door. Then it turned the handle, and went in.
'What's this!' said Martha, in a whisper. 'She has gone into my room. I don't know her!'
I knew her. I had recognized her with amazement, for Miss Dartle.
I said something to the effect that it was a lady whom I had seen before, in a few words, to my conductress; and had scarcely done so, when we heard her voice in the room, though not, from where we stood, what she was saying. Martha, with an astonished look, repeated her former action, and softly led me up the stairs; and then, by a little back-door which seemed to have no lock, and which she pushed open with a touch, into a small empty garret with a low sloping roof, little better than a cupboard. Between this, and the room she had called hers, there was a small door of communication, standing partly open. Here we stopped, breathless with our ascent, and she placed her hand lightly on my lips.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the blue adverbial phrases qualifies "saw."
2. I'd like to know what "for" means.
3. I'd like to know both "her voice" and "what she was saying" is objects of "heard."
4. And I'd like to know why it is "of," not "for."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. Yes. 2.
- 1.
- Yes.
- 2.
- To recognise X "for" Y means to recognise that X is Y.
- 3.
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1. Yes.
2. To recognise X "for" Y means to recognise that X is Y.
3. Yes.
4. The difference, if any, between "of" and "for" here is rather subtle and debatable. My feeling is that "door of communication" describes a type of door, whereas "door for communication" describes a door that has a certain purpose. If that distinction does not make sense, just consider "of" to be
2. To recognise X "for" Y means to recognise that X is Y.
3. Yes.
4. The difference, if any, between "of" and "for" here is rather subtle and debatable. My feeling is that "door of communication" describes a type of door, whereas "door for communication" describes a door that has a certain purpose. If that distinction does not make sense, just consider "of" to be
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