Answer:
D. encompassed
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby".
The word bazaar might also be confusing, so let's just say it's a kind of open market.
So, we have a boy who rushes into that market and finds him self in a hall around which is a gallery with lots of empty, closed stalls.
That can be enough to infer the meaning of the word "girded" which is "surrounded", "encompassed" or "encircled".
C) The 90 pound dog wagged it’s tail as I walked past it.
explanation: we know this because
A) You’re means you are, which is not the correct spelling.
D) This is the incorrect abbreviation of the word ladies
So we know it is either B or C
C is the one claiming it’s tail so we know it is the dogs tail.
