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A statement of the main ideas of a lecture or printed material in your own words
Gandhi speaks plainly about how he felt about his own marriage and child marriage as a whole. He says he wishes he did not have to write the chapter and calls the writing of it a "painful duty." He even writes that he pities himself as he looks back on the event and refers to those who are married later in life as having "escaped," suggesting that marriage at such a young age is like imprisonment. He refers to the marriage as "preposterously early," a word choice that suggests not only that it is unreasonable but absurd as well.
I would say the answer is D. One should never bet on anything.
But this isn't any kind of a moral to the story. This story wasn't intended to sound didactic, or to judge anyone. It is a humorous account of a man who tricks another man by wasting his time on a story about a third man who was tricked. So, it is a story about unreliability and relativity of stories and people's accounts in general. The narrator came to inquire Simon Wheeler about Leonidas Smiley, but Wheeler, having no information about him (or not being willing to give it away), takes the opportunity to talk about another Smiley, a man who liked to gamble.
