Answer:
C. He is excited and nervous, but doesn't want Natalya to know it.
Explanation:
In this farce - <em>The Proposal</em> by Anton Chekhov we have Lomov and Natalya as main characters, besides her father. Lomov is a kind of man who has a problem with coming to the point when talking thus making a lot of digresses. Since this is a sensitive matter for him, he expresses anxiety and nervousness first while talking to Chubukov, Natalya`s father, then while talking to Natalya. So he just goes around expending the talking by, as seen in this excerpt, guessing her reaction to the still unknown matter of marital proposal. Then he comments the weather while trying to show himself as relaxed, though he is not even close to that.
Because the co-workers Rita kept her eyes on her work and never said much. Laura concluded that Rita wasn't very smart. When a new procedure was introduced on their floor, Laura made several errors. Rita showed her a simple way to remember each step.
<span>The author’s purpose in this excerpt is to prompt an emotion in the reader. The descriptive way of delivering the situation to the reader gives a sense of emotion to the reader. The prompt is by the use of words such as, "hurting," and "tears in his eyes," are words used to convey such message.</span>
You didn’t give the ‘following’ answers; however, a pronoun takes place of a noun (person, place, or thing). For example, if you were trying to say, ‘Jessie took Jessie’s dog out to walk around Jessie’s neighborhood,” you would say, “Jessie took her dog out to walk around her neighborhood.” ‘Her’ would be the pronoun. It takes place of the noun ‘Jessie’ and prevents repetition.
