Select the correct texts in the passage, In the adapted excerpt from Herman Melville's short story "The Lightning-Rod Man." which two statements best support an objective summary
of the excerpt?
Hark There go all the granite Taconics and Hoosies dashed together like pebbles. By the sound, that must have struck something. An elevation
of five feet above the house will protect twenty feet radius all about the rod. Only twenty dollars, sir--a dollar a foot. Hark!--Dreadfull-Will you
order? Will you buy? Shall I put down your name? Think of a heap of charred wood and all in one flash!"
You pretended envoy extraordinary and an agent to and from Jupiter Tonans." laughed t 'you mere man who come here to put you and your
pipestem between clay and sky, do you think that because you can strike a bit of green light from the Leyden jar, that you can thoroughly avert
the supernai bolt? Your rod rusts, or breaks, and where are you? Who has empowered you, you Tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from
divine ordinations? The hairs of our heads are numbered, and the days of our lives. In thunder as in sunshine I stand at eate. False negotiator
away! See the scroll of the storm is rolled back the house is unharmed, and in the blue heavens read in the rainbow, and will not make war on
man's earth
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