Answer: 1) With impatient fingers she began all over again.
Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). From the given options, the sentence from "Mother's Recompense" by Edith Wharton that represents an example of personification, is the corresponding to option 1, because it is giving the fingers (non human objects) the ability of being impatient (which is a human characteristic).
