B.
PART B: Which TWO quotes from the story best support the answer to Part A?
A. "he began to talk, the little family circle regarding with eager interest this visitor
from distant parts, as he squared his broad shoulders in the chair and spoke of
strange scenes and doughty deeds" (Paragraph 13)
"I won't,' said his friend doggedly. I threw it on the fire. If you keep it, don't
blame me for what happens. Pitch it on the fire again, like a sensible man."
(Paragraph 42)
"Likely,' said Herbert, with pretend horror. Why, we're going to be rich, and
famous, and happy. Wish to be an emperor, father, to begin with; then you can't
be henpecked." (Paragraph 52)
"Mr. White dropped his wife's hand, and rising to his feet, gazed with a look of
horror at his visitor. His dry lips shaped the words, 'How much? / Two hundred
pounds,' was the answer." (Paragraphs 93-94)
"But the days passed, and expectation gave place to resignation — the hopeless
resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled, apathy. Sometimes they hardly
exchanged a word, for now they had nothing to talk about, and their days were
long to weariness." (Paragraph 97)
"Go and get it and wish,' cried the old woman, quivering with excitement."
(Paragraph 117)
F.