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The phrase "not even a baronet" (lines 133) is best understood as


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No Okay Next up AP English lit people The phrase

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not even a barren ET online thirty seven right There

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is best understood as what All right Well let's think

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about it The argument the speaker's been making starts to

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unravel in this paragraph and well her sarcasm just starts

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to become more obvious It's absurd to say that Katherine's

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ideal lover would have to be a Lord Baron et

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you know a boy accidentally found at the door One

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of unknown origins like that was bad in those days

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or award of her father all storylines taken from novels

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not even a barren ET suggests that a titled aristocrats

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still wouldn't be good enough for a heroine Catherine So

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the answer here it's d a sarcastic comment on heroism

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Yeah alright loser bowl Well instead of supporting the idea

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of royal breeding here that it's like a good thing

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the author is mocking it So get rid of egg

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in her sarcasm The author indicates that a baronet would

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barely be even good enough because gatherings too highfalutin So

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get rid of be well and then the line isn't

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meant metaphorically And if it were well it would be

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unclear what the Baron et represents So yeah you could

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just like get rid of sea social atmosphere Where that

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come from The author never reveals Ah weather non shes

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nobility from her flippant tone However it's unlikely that she

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is So get rid of Ian The right answer Here

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is d A sarcastic comment on heroism Yeah D as 00:01:40.1 --> [endTime] in Dist

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