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Kingston123 Posted 6 years ago
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What does "might consider reserving" mean?

Mrs Jennings: In the absence of your brother, you must dance with our lovely Miss Dashwood here.
Robert: It would be my honor. And perhaps Miss Steele...might consider reserving the allemande.


What does "might consider reserving" mean?

Source: Sense and Sensibility 1995

  

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Robert:. . Perhaps Miss Steele...

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  • Robert:.
  • .
  • Perhaps Miss Steele...
  • might consider reserving the allemande.
  • The Allemande is the name of a type of dance.
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Robert:. . . . Perhaps Miss Steele...might consider reserving the allemande.


The Allemande is the name of a type of dance. Robert is very politely asking Miss Steele to dance with him the next time the band plays an Allemande.

might consider makes the request very tentative and indirect.

(Society in Jane Austen's time was much more formalized than it is n

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