Which sentence(s) from the excerpt of "Two Friends" BEST demonstrate(s) that Monsieur Morrisot and Monsieur Sauvage were
afraid?
A
The two friends, pale as death, stood silently side by
side, a slight fluttering of the hands alone betraying their
emotion.
B
Monsieur Sauvage made no reply. Again they stood
side by side.
C
And the two began placidly discussing political
problems with the sound common sense of peaceful,
matter-of-fact citizens-agreeing on one point that they
would never be free.
D.
"Just think that in five minutes you will be at the bottom
of that water. In five minutes! You have relations,
presume?"

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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