Mher
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Friends,
I can't quite figure out what meaning the phrase "any one of sense" has in the given context. Please, present your authoritative opinions. As always, this is Poe. I am citing a whole paragraph from https://poestories.com/read/systemoftarr.
"Here? — in my own experience? — why, I may say, yes. For example: — no very long while ago, a singular
circumstance occurred in this very house. The'soothing system,' you know, was then in operation, and the patients
were at large. They behaved remarkably well — especially so — any one of sense might have known that some
devilish scheme was brewing from that particular fact, that the fellows behaved so remarkably well. And, sure
enough, one fine morning the keepers found themselves pinioned hand and foot, and thrown into the cells, where
they were attended, as if they were the lunatics, by the lunatics themselves, who had usurped the offices of the
keepers."
I dare to think that it could mean "any person having a good sense/experience might have anticipated..." Am I right?
I can't quite figure out what meaning the phrase "any one of sense" has in the given context. Please, present your authoritative opinions. As always, this is Poe. I am citing a whole paragraph from https://poestories.com/read/systemoftarr.
"Here? — in my own experience? — why, I may say, yes. For example: — no very long while ago, a singular
circumstance occurred in this very house. The'soothing system,' you know, was then in operation, and the patients
were at large. They behaved remarkably well — especially so — any one of sense might have known that some
devilish scheme was brewing from that particular fact, that the fellows behaved so remarkably well. And, sure
enough, one fine morning the keepers found themselves pinioned hand and foot, and thrown into the cells, where
they were attended, as if they were the lunatics, by the lunatics themselves, who had usurped the offices of the
keepers."
I dare to think that it could mean "any person having a good sense/experience might have anticipated..." Am I right?