Front | Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid Explore: x3 -'At home in the barton (farm) you said "thee" and "thou", And "thik oon", and "theas oon", and "t'other"; but now Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny! 'Some polish is gained with one's ruin,' said she. |
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Back | •5 examples for previous dialect expresses how overwhelmed the country girl is by Melia's transition => social mobility was inconceivable at the time + this also accentuates the eloquence of the latter •Division between the girls most evident in contrasting informal English with broken dialect •'ruin' => self-pitying tone + contradictory with 'polished' |
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