Which excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture" conveys the playful tone of the passage?
O The attention of the company was immediately turned to me, if my face had been pale the moment before, it now glowed
almost to burning.
I tried to laugh, but could only make a grimace, and found all the muscles of my face twitching at sixes and sevens.
O There is a picture in the room in which I was put last night, that has had an effect upon me the most singular and
incomprehensible.
O "A picture!" said the old gentleman with the haunted head. “A picture!" cried the narrator with the waggish nose. A picture!
a picture!" echoed several voices.

In marigolds, which character can be described as having a laugh so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with it?

If i have enough money, buy a car. a, will b, shall

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.