Walt Whitman
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Source: from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (chapter 10)
Context: When Heathcliff disappeared, Cathy nearly died from unhappiness. After three years he returns, looking and behaving like a gentleman. Ellen, the housemaid, is amazed to see how much Heathcliff has changed:
His upright carriage suggested the idea of his having been in the army.
[...] and his manner was even dignified, quite divested of roughness, though too stern for grace.
I think of the underlined parts as meaning:
(a) his way of standing and walking (“carriage”?);
(b) no coarseness left, although his manner was too severe to be pleasant. (?)
But I’m not sure. Could you please help me?
Thank you
WW
Context: When Heathcliff disappeared, Cathy nearly died from unhappiness. After three years he returns, looking and behaving like a gentleman. Ellen, the housemaid, is amazed to see how much Heathcliff has changed:
His upright carriage suggested the idea of his having been in the army.
[...] and his manner was even dignified, quite divested of roughness, though too stern for grace.
I think of the underlined parts as meaning:
(a) his way of standing and walking (“carriage”?);
(b) no coarseness left, although his manner was too severe to be pleasant. (?)
But I’m not sure. Could you please help me?
Thank you
WW
