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

Horizontal asymptote at  tells us that the original graph has been translated down.since  ,  are positive.  also we can say that the point  has a smaller  -coordinate than  .this means that the  transformed exponential function is increasing as it goes to the right. as it goes from  to , the value of the exponential function increases. it goes from to something bigger, . therefore, as  . the left hand would be the side that approaches the horizontal asymptote.so the answer is d