Expression: That...!

[Haihao]

Hi,

Could you please give me your assistance with the following passages?

My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand. That any one should care in this heat whose flushed lips he kissed, whose head made damp the pajama pocket over his heart!

1. Does ‘that’ here suggest an exclamation?

“I don’t care!” cried Daisy and began to clog on the brick fireplace. Then she remembered the heat and sat down guiltily on the couch just as a freshly laundered nurse leading a little girl came into the room.

2. Should I suggest the brick fireplace has a certain space on the floor in front of it (as a hearth) since 'she danced on the brick fireplace?

With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse’s hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.

3. Is it = that, which was full of ice, clicked?

Thank you!

Haihao

[Mister_Micawber]

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1. Does ‘that’ here suggest an exclamation? – I don’t think that this ‘that’ is intrinsically exclamatory, but it is certainly the remnant of an understood exclamatory phrase: ‘[i] that anyone should care…!’

2. Should I suggest the brick fireplace has a certain space on the floor in front of it (as a hearth) since 'she danced on the brick fireplace? – Yes, I think you are right that she is clogging on the hearth; that is how I read it.

3. Is it = that, which was full of ice, clicked? – Maybe I don’t understand your question, Haihao-- but the four cocktail glasses are making a clicking/clinking noise caused by their ice cubes.
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[Haihao]

You gave me just what I wanted, Mr Micawber. I had wanted to make sure if ‘full of ice’ modifies ‘the four rickeys’ as an adjective phrase.

Thank you!

Haihao