"and he would go tot work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of this as long and tedious as it should be to me"
"Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative…"
Then there's another one when Simon talks about the frog's talents: "you never see a frog so modest and trightforward as he was, for all he was so gifted"
I hope this helps!
I think it is D. Too much credit use I might be wrong but im pretty sure its D.
Since its a sibling, and siblings tend to be in a person's close circle of people, informal speech is used.
It is independent because it expresses a complete tought.
