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and here's your schmoop du jour brought to you by Fanny Burney.

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all right we'll check out suggested husbands for Fanny Burney to answer the

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following question. my dear friends

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who wrote this?

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all right here we go. in line 18 what does pine mean? and here the potential [play script pictured]

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answers. great answers alright well we'll get this one wrong only if we

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decide we're too busy to bother reading the passage. like seriously let's take a

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look at the paragraph in which the word pine appears. alright so the story is

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that mrs. thrale is trying to set Fannie up with a bunch of guys. when asked

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whether she digs one more than the other Fanny says she likes one guy better but

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she's not gonna pine for either one but what is pine mean? well it's not too hard

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to figure out since most of these options make zero sense in context. for

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example what it makes sense for Fanny to randomly start talking about pineapples

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or trees when asked which guys she prefers well no it would not. but we'll

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Nix a and B right off the bat. if Fanny did do this mrs. thrale would probably [two women sit at a table]

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think she's more fit for the loony bin and marriage. choice B is a little less

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random because a person's health can take a dip when pining. still this

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doesn't work in the context of the passage. there's nothing to make us think

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that Fanny is saying she won't let her health fail for either of these men. well

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hopefully she'll stay healthy either way. the correct answer is C - pine means to

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yearn for something like you want it but can't have it.

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so Fanny is not gonna stay up all night thinking about either of these suitors.

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we're glad to hear she's not into that Crutchley guy, you know Crutchely is a [woman sleeps in bed]

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supervillain alias if we've ever heard one.

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