Select the sentence that BEST conveys the central idea of the text to the reader. In direct, quiet words-words whose bareness made them dramatic for the weight of possibility they.
carried—the Colonel explained. Black Wolf and his band were out on the war-path. A soldier
coming in wounded, escaped from the massacre of the post at Devil's Hoof Gap, had reported it.
With the large command known to be here camped on Sweetstream Fork, they would not come this
way; they would swerve up the Gunpowder River twenty miles away, destroying the settlement and
Little Fort Slade, and would sweep on, probably for a general massacre, up the Great Horn as far as
Fort Doncaster. He himself, with the regiment, would try to save Fort Slade, but in the meantime
Captain Thornton's troop, coming to join him, ignorant that Black Wolf had taken the war-path, would
be directly in their track. Some one must be sent to warn them, and of course the fewer the quicker.
Lieutenant Morgan would take a sergeant, the Colonel ordered quietly, and start at once.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Which of these can an adverbial clause modify?

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