Excerpt from Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 5 The ‘smash-up’ it was—I gathered from the same informant—which, besides drawing the red
gash across Ethan Frome’s forehead, had so shortened and warped his right side that it cost him a visible effort to take the few steps from his buggy to the post-office window. He used to drive in from his farm every day at about noon, and as that was my own hour for fetching my mail I often passed him in the porch or stood beside him while we waited on the motions of the distributing hand behind the grating. I noticed that, though he came so punctually, he seldom received anything but a copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle, which he put without a glance into his sagging pocket. What does punctually mean, as used in the third sentence of section
A) poorly dressed
B) very hungry
C) promptly
D) carefully
In the third sentence, the word "punctually" is used to refer to the urgency of a male character for collecting his mail, this explained by the narrator as "he came so punctually" that shows when it was time the man was always there, this idea is contrasted by the fact this man rarely received any important mail "he seldom received anything but a copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle". This implies, the word "punctually" refers to the readiness or promptness of the man to collect the mail and thus, this word means promptly.
The U.S. Constitution uses federalism to divide governmental powers between the federal government and the individual state governments. The Tenth Amendment tells us that all powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states
The lines are blurred more thoroughly in the music of Franz Liszt, possibly the best-known composer of program music, whose specifically programmatic works—such as the Faust Symphony and some of his symphonic poems—are not often performed.
