Read this excerpt from “my last duchess” by robert browning: —and if she let herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, —e'en then would be some stooping: and i choose never to stoop. oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, whene'er i passed her; but who passed without much the same smile? this grew; i gave commands; then all smiles stopped together. what conclusion can you draw about the speaker's character? he seems passive. he is extremely arrogant. he has a stooping gait. he is very somber.