Select the correct text in the passage. Which line from this excerpt of James Joyce's "Araby indicates that the bazaar represents an escape for the narrator from his mundane life?
What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that eveningI wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I
chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to
read. The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over
me. I asked for leave to go to the bazaar on Saturday night. My aunt was surprised, and hoped it was not some Freemason affair. I answered
few questions in class. I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning too idle. I could not call my
wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire,
seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
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