A. “. . . a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays.”
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D. There was a sharp softness...
an oxymoron is a figure of speech in which opposite terms appear
It would simply be "They respect each other".
Respect in time tenses is either spelled, "Respected", "Respect", or "Will Respect."
The fact that it's third person does not change the word since it can be said as "I respect you", "You respect yourself" "They respect each other"