Here’s the boy in goal and me disgraced for ever.

[diamondcutter]

34) Here’s the boy in goal and me disgraced for ever.

Source: http://www.doczj.com/doc/ac7c0494f71fb7360b4c2e3f5727a5e9846a274d-4.html

I read this sentence on the web page above.

I wonder if it means this.

Here’s the boy in goal and he disgraced me for ever.

 

[5jj]

Absent context, I have no idea what it means.

 

[diamondcutter]

What do you think the sentence might most likely mean?

 

[5jj]

What do you think 'no idea might most likely mean?

Random sentences with no context are not really worth studying for meaning.

 

[Rover_KE]

It could be a typo for 'gaol' (more often spelt 'jail').

 

[5jj]

Brilliant, Rover. See page 135 here.

 

[diamondcutter]

Thanks, Rover and 5jj.

I read the first act of the play.
Yes, the word “goal” should be “gaol”.

Here is the context of that sentence.

Mr. Gilbey: Maria: if you keep interrupting with silly questions, I shall go out of my senses. Here’s the boy in gaol and me disgraced for ever; and all you care to know is what a squiffer is.

I think what Mr. Gilbey means is this by saying “Here’s the boy in gaol and me disgraced for ever.”

The boy has been in gaol and I will be disgraced for ever.

Am I right?

 

[5jj]

The boy is in gaol and she is disgraced for ever.

 

[diamondcutter]

Hi, 5jj.

I'd like to know if the pronoun "she" in your sentence in #8 should be "I", which refers to Mr Gilbey.

 

[5jj]

No.

I wrote about the situation.

 

[diamondcutter]

Sorry, but I still don't know who the "she" refers to. Could you please tell me?

 

[jutfrank]

5jj meant to say he, in reference to Mr Gilbey.

 

[Tdol]

Whether it's goal or gaol, I think it most likely means that two people are disgraced.