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The analyses of a text #5
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is beginning a new life as an apprentice in Doctors' Commons at London.
The narrator's best friend Steerforth and his Oxford friends came over to the narrator's apartment to dinner.
After the dinner and the much drinking of wine, they went to a theatre, where he encountered his old friend Agnes and she advised that he had better go home?I think she found him so very drunk.
He awakend with much remorse the next day.
He had been heard a previous tenant died of drinking and smoking.
Mrs. Crupp is his landlady.
Oh, what an evening, when I sat down by my fire to a basin of mutton broth, dimpled all over with fat, and thought I was going the way of my predecessor, and should succeed to his dismal story as well as to his chambers, and had half a mind to rush express to Dover and reveal all! What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kideney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast, and say, in heartfelt penitence, "Oh, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats! I am very miserable!"?only that I doubted, even at that pass, if Mrs. Crupp were quite the sort of woman to confide in!
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if he was inclined to Mrs. Crupp but he din't fall upon her and talked to her.
2. I'd like to know the clause in blue is an object of "doubted."
3. And I'd like to know what "even at that pass" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is beginning a new life as an apprentice in Doctors' Commons at London.
The narrator's best friend Steerforth and his Oxford friends came over to the narrator's apartment to dinner.
After the dinner and the much drinking of wine, they went to a theatre, where he encountered his old friend Agnes and she advised that he had better go home?I think she found him so very drunk.
He awakend with much remorse the next day.
He had been heard a previous tenant died of drinking and smoking.
Mrs. Crupp is his landlady.
Oh, what an evening, when I sat down by my fire to a basin of mutton broth, dimpled all over with fat, and thought I was going the way of my predecessor, and should succeed to his dismal story as well as to his chambers, and had half a mind to rush express to Dover and reveal all! What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kideney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast, and say, in heartfelt penitence, "Oh, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats! I am very miserable!"?only that I doubted, even at that pass, if Mrs. Crupp were quite the sort of woman to confide in!
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if he was inclined to Mrs. Crupp but he din't fall upon her and talked to her.
2. I'd like to know the clause in blue is an object of "doubted."
3. And I'd like to know what "even at that pass" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. "to fall" and "(to) say" are both linked to "inclined". "fall upon her nankeen breast" means something like pour out his heart to her and appeal to her sympathy/pity.
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- "to fall" and "(to) say" are both linked to "inclined".
- "fall upon her nankeen breast" means something like pour out his heart to her and appeal to her sympathy/pity.
- He felt inclined to do this, but it is implied that actually he didn't, since he did not think Mrs Crupp was "the sort of woman to confide in".
- 2.
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1. "to fall" and "(to) say" are both linked to "inclined". "fall upon her nankeen breast" means something like pour out his heart to her and appeal to her sympathy/pity. He felt inclined to do this, but it is implied that actually he didn't, since he did not think Mrs Crupp was "the sort of woman to confide in".
2. Yes.
3. I think it means something like "even in that sorry situa
2. Yes.
3. I think it means something like "even in that sorry situa
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is beginning a new life as an apprentice in Doctors' Commons in London.
The narrator's best friend Steerforth and his Oxford friends came over to the narrator's apartment to dinner.
Afterthe dinner and the much drinking of wine, they went to a theatre, where he encountered his old friend Agnes and she advised that h
He is beginning a new life as an apprentice in Doctors' Commons in London.
The narrator's best friend Steerforth and his Oxford friends came over to the narrator's apartment to dinner.
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