English, 06.01.2020 04:31 Cookie320

My suspicions gnawed at my heart. could grayson have committed such a dreadful deed? could he have exposed the secret with wanton disregard for my feelings? minor evidence pointed to his guilt, but i would not accuse him until i knew the whole truth.

which best describes the voice expressed in the paragraph?
a. dismal
b. solemn
c. hopeless
d. subdued

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Answer from: ValerieRubyPena

Either Subdued or Dismal. The voice is sad and gloomy, but also seems to be reflecting on what happend in sadness.

Answer from: Quest

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm, in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment, thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts. one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r. hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r. and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent. i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

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