Refer to the excerpt from "a bachelor's complaint of the behavior of married people". you can infer from the fifth sentence that "them" refers to a. wives b. husbands c. old friends d. sovereign princes e. friendships

Humanity, you felt for MacQuirk as you ought to do, and if you had beencontented to assist him indirectly, without anotorious denial of justice, or openly insulting the sense of the nation, you might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, with- out committing the honor of your sovereign, or hazarding the reputation 

hmm?? Friendships

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