Which phrase most contributes to this passage’s sad and isolated tone? “I will never forget that lonesome hill of stone that is her final bed, as it fades from my sight.”

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?