Johnyxxx
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Hi.
Can anybody explain to me what exactly the word "detached" means in the context? As far as I can understand it, the guy lived in Europe, so hence "continental," but I cannot understand the meaning of the word "detached" here.
Weigall, continental and detached, tired early of grouse-shooting. To stand propped against a sod fence while his host's workmen routed up the birds with long poles and drove them towards the waiting guns, made him feel himself a parody on the ancestors who had roamed the moors and forests of this West Riding of Yorkshire in hot pursuit of game worth the killing. But when in England in August he always accepted whatever proffered for the season, and invited his host to shoot pheasants on his estates in the South. The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills.
The Striding Place, Gertrude Atherton, 1895.
Thank you very much.
Can anybody explain to me what exactly the word "detached" means in the context? As far as I can understand it, the guy lived in Europe, so hence "continental," but I cannot understand the meaning of the word "detached" here.
Weigall, continental and detached, tired early of grouse-shooting. To stand propped against a sod fence while his host's workmen routed up the birds with long poles and drove them towards the waiting guns, made him feel himself a parody on the ancestors who had roamed the moors and forests of this West Riding of Yorkshire in hot pursuit of game worth the killing. But when in England in August he always accepted whatever proffered for the season, and invited his host to shoot pheasants on his estates in the South. The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills.
The Striding Place, Gertrude Atherton, 1895.
Thank you very much.
