{"id":640,"date":"2017-09-13T20:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=640"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:34:07","slug":"lady-audleys-practiced-demeanor-and-robert-audleys-slight-interrogation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/13\/lady-audleys-practiced-demeanor-and-robert-audleys-slight-interrogation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Audley’s Practiced Demeanor and Robert Audley’s Slight Interrogation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBetter, perhaps that I should be out of the house \u2013 better, perhaps, that I should never have entered it\u2026Oh, pray, do not be alarmed, Lady Audley,” he said gravely. \u201cYou have no sentimental nonsense, no silly infatuation, borrowed from Balzac, or Dumas\u00a0fils<\/em>, to fear from me.\u201d Excerpt, Braddon p. 142<\/p>\n

In this\u00a0passage, Robert Audley has begun to interrogate Lady Audley. Leading up to this, Lady Audley had been talking with Robert about how \u201cunfortunate\u201d she thought it was that Robert had to be kicked out of their house. The reason she gives for Robert Audley being forced to leave is that her husband, Michael Audley, was concerned with it being \u201cdangerous\u201d for a man to be smoking so much around his wife. She tells Robert than he is owed an apology, because of her husband\u2019s \u201csilly thinking.\u201d To the reader, this is clearly a lie, as we have heart the real reason Robert was turned away, and that Lady Audley clearly felt that no apology was needed. And although Lady Audley lied to Robert, she did it with her usual, \u201cpeculiar childish vivacity, which seemed so natural to her.\u201d In this excerpt, Robert Audley shows the small amount of knowledge he has that she has malevolent intentions. By saying that it might have been better if he had never come into the house, Robert begins to bring up the idea that there is something dangerous about being inside it. After he says this, Lady Audley looks \u201cwith an earnest, questioning gaze,\u201d that Robert fully understands. Although she looks up at him seemingly in earnest, what Robert understands is that this is all for show. He tells her not to be alarmed, as she shouldn\u2019t expect any \u201cnonsense,\u201d or \u201csilly infatuation\u201d from him. He tells her that he will not have to borrow womanly tactics from the writing of Dumas, and the \u201cfils\u201d in them. This is Robert telling Lady Audley that he will not be pretending to be ignorant, or that he will not the true meanings of his words with anything \u201cborrowed.\u201d This passage shows the reader that Lady Audley is constantly retaining her fa\u00e7ade around everyone, but that Robert Audley is challenging it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBetter, perhaps that I should be out of the house \u2013 better, perhaps, that I should never have entered it\u2026Oh, pray, do not be alarmed, Lady Audley,” he said gravely. \u201cYou have no sentimental nonsense, no silly infatuation, borrowed from Balzac, or Dumas\u00a0fils, to fear from me.\u201d Excerpt, Braddon p. 142 In this\u00a0passage, Robert Audley … Continue reading Lady Audley’s Practiced Demeanor and Robert Audley’s Slight Interrogation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782,123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}