Select the passage that has a more defeated tone.

it was a still night and the snow was coming down in masses and falling almost perpendicularly, covering the pavement and the empty street as though with a pillow. there was no one in the street, no sound was to be heard. the street lamps gave a disconsolate and useless glimmer.

the evening before my departure for blithedale, i was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the veiled lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

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