Read the excerpt from the little foxes. regina. (to ben) horace would like to talk to you now. horace. horace would not like to talk to you now. i am very tired, regina— regina. (comes to him) . you’ve said we’ll try our best with each other. i’ll try. really, i will. do this for me now. you will see what i’ve done while you’ve been away. how i watched your interests. (laughs gaily) and i’ve done very well too. but things can’t be delayed any longer. everything must be settled this week— (horace sits down. ben enters. oscar has stayed in the dining room, his head turned to watch them. leo is pretending to read the newspaper) now you must tell horace all about it. only be quick because he is very tired and must go to bed. (horace is looking up at her. his face hardens as she speaks) but i think your news will be better for him than all the medicine in the world. ben. (looking at horace) it could wait. horace may not feel like talking today. regina. what an old faker you are! you know it can’t wait. you know it must be finished this week. you’ve been just as anxious for horace to get here as i’ve been. what does this excerpt emphasize about the character of regina?

My dog sleeps beside my bed he wakes me up in the middle of the night to let him out. complete, run-on sentence or comma splice

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

Based on the cause-and-effect relationship in this sentence, what is the meaning of the word illuminate? the colors and patterns on the stained glass windows were illuminated as thousands of candles burned during the special church service. a) to melt or change form b) to grow taller or wider c) to become extremely hot d) to light up or make clear