Answer:
C. leave the past behind. Doyle uses Sherlock Holmes to show how people can show forgiveness to others, even if they have the power to convict them of something they have done wrong. Mercy. Forgiveness.
It can be helpful to leave the past behind. Forgetting those things that were before, and finding peace now.
Explanation:
He steals it. He is forgiven. This fellow will not go wrong again. Show him what is right and he can follow the righteous (no one is righteous) path. We all try to be better than we were before.
I'm pretty sure it's B- painful
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