shootingstar
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I could not but reflect what a strange manner of man this was, to be living unremarked there as a private merchant, and to be so feared by a whole city; and if I was disappointed, in my character of looker-on, to have the matter end ingloriously without the firing of a shot or the hanging of a single millionaire, philosophy tried to tell me that this sight was truly the more picturesque.
(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, chapter viii, published 1892)
Please, what does have the matter end mean there, and what does have + object + infinitive without to mean in general?
(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, chapter viii, published 1892)
Please, what does have the matter end mean there, and what does have + object + infinitive without to mean in general?
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