Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James Steerforth, 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.
Martha led the narrator to the place, but James Steerforth's cousin Rosa Dartle arrived ahead.
"It would be no great penance," said Rosa Dartle, "for your crimes. Do you ever think of the home you have laid waste?"
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'Has there ever been a single minute, waking or sleeping, when it hasn't been before me, just as it used to be in the lost days when I turned my back upon it for ever and for ever! Oh, home, home!
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'The miserable vanity of these earth-worms!' she said, when she had so far controlled the angry heavings of her breast, that she could trust herself to speak. 'YOUR home! Do you imagine that I bestow a thought on it, or suppose you could do any harm to that low place, which money would not pay for, and handsomely? YOUR home! You were a part of the trade of your home, and were bought and sold like any other vendible thing your people dealt in.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "vanity" means here.
2. I'd like to know what "so far" means here.
3. I'd like to know if "angry heavings" is a compound adjective.
4. And I'd like to know if "that low place" is an object of "for."
Thank you in advance for your help.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James Steerforth, 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.
Martha led the narrator to the place, but James Steerforth's cousin Rosa Dartle arrived ahead.
Chapter 50 Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
................................."It would be no great penance," said Rosa Dartle, "for your crimes. Do you ever think of the home you have laid waste?"
..............................
'Has there ever been a single minute, waking or sleeping, when it hasn't been before me, just as it used to be in the lost days when I turned my back upon it for ever and for ever! Oh, home, home!
...............................
'The miserable vanity of these earth-worms!' she said, when she had so far controlled the angry heavings of her breast, that she could trust herself to speak. 'YOUR home! Do you imagine that I bestow a thought on it, or suppose you could do any harm to that low place, which money would not pay for, and handsomely? YOUR home! You were a part of the trade of your home, and were bought and sold like any other vendible thing your people dealt in.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "vanity" means here.
2. I'd like to know what "so far" means here.
3. I'd like to know if "angry heavings" is a compound adjective.
4. And I'd like to know if "that low place" is an object of "for."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" "which" is the object of "for". The antecedent of "which" is "harm". CJ
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park sang joon"vanity"pride
park sang joon"so far"up until that time
park sang joonangry heavingsadjective, noun
park sang joonI'd like to know if "that low place" is an object of "for.""which" is the object of "for". The antecedent of "which" is "h
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Thank you, CalifJim, for your so very helpful answer. 
1. Then I was wondering why you think the speaker said "The miserable van
1. Then I was wondering why you think the speaker said "The miserable van
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park sang joonthese earth-wormsall of these people like Emily
the whole class of people to which Emily belongs
lower-class people
CJ
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