Read the following assertion about nathaniel hawthorne's short story “the minister's black veil,” and then answer the question. the clergyman's veil seems to strengthen the effect of his words on his parishioners. which of the following is the best textual evidence for this assertion? a. “from the coffin mr. hooper passed into the chamber of the mourners, and thence to the head of the staircase to make the funeral prayer. it was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister." b. “he returned, therefore, to the parsonage, and, at the moment of closing the door, was observed to look back upon the people, all of whom had their eyes fixed upon the minister. a sad smile gleamed faintly from beneath the black veil, and flickered about his mouth, glimmering as he disappeared.” c. “though reckoned a melancholy man, mr. hooper had a placid cheerfulness for such occasions, which often excited a sympathetic smile, where livelier merriment would have been thrown away. there was no quality of his disposition which made him more beloved than this.” d. “a rumor of some unaccountable phenomenon had preceded mr. hooper into the meeting-house, and set all the congregation astir. few could refrain from twisting their heads towards the door; many stood upright, and turned directly about; while several little boys clambered upon the seats, and came down again with a terrible racket.”