From the novel; She Stoops to Conquer
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer.
”My heart thus pressing-fix’d my face and eye-with a sententious look, that nothing means…’In the lines above, the speaker implies that
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his gesture means nothing
- he is a pious man
- he is being sentimental
- his heart is pressing against his face and eye