It's not me, it's my daughter who is studying Great Expecations and is stuck on a passage. I might just be tired, but I can't really make sense of it myself and can't help her. We are in Scandinavia btw so be kind. Sometimes there's just a gap in our English knowledge!
This is the passage, from chapter 18 or 19
[quote]“Whether you scold me or approve of me,” returned poor Biddy, “you may equally depend upon my trying to do all that lies in my power, here, at all times. And whatever opinion you take away of me, shall make no difference in my remembrance of you. Yet a gentleman should not be unjust neither,” said Biddy, turning away her head.
I again warmly repeated that it was a bad side of human nature (in which sentiment, waiving its application, I have since seen reason to think I was right), and I walked down the little path away from Biddy, and Biddy went into the house, and I went out at the garden gate and took a dejected stroll until supper-time; again feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this, the second night of my bright fortunes, should be as lonely and unsatisfactory as the first.
But, morning once more brightened my view, and I extended my clemency to Biddy, and we dropped the subject. [/quote]
In particular this sentence
[quote] I again warmly repeated that it was a bad side of human nature (in which sentiment, waiving its application, I have since seen reason to think I was right)[/quote]
I'm just not getting it and I feel Really Thick. Help! What does that sentence mean?
We get the general gist and if we were just reading then what the hell. But this is for school so she wanted to be sure of what that said.