The answer is A. The author utilizes free verse due to the structure mirrors easygoing discussion. Free verse is an open type of verse. It doesn't utilize predictable meter examples, rhyme, or some other melodic example. Numerous lyrics formed in free verse in this manner have a tendency to take after the beat of normal discourse.
Pit was first
pendulum was second
fire was third
Victor assaults his investigations with excitement and, overlooking his public activity and his family far away in Geneva, gains quick ground. Later, Ardently dedicating himself to this work, he ignores everything else; family, companions, studies, and public activity, and becomes progressively pale, desolate, and fixated.
Based on the given passage above, when Bertie says he feels like a "badly wrapped brown-paper parcel" he means that he feels tired and out of sorts. Therefore, the correct answer of the given question above would be the first option: tired and out of sorts.