2: it makes more sence and has more details better sentences aswell so i think its 2
The sentence showed the part of the story where Marilyn is making letters for her family. She wants her brother to remember only the positive side of her. This is a paraphrase of the sentence. "She paused from time to time to think carefully on what words to say for her family, then she continued to write her letters."
gawkish: can also mean clumsy or awkward
Hopefully this helps.
<span>Infinitive phrases don’t contribute to the dreary
mood of this short passage from the novel “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens.
Infinitive phrases are consisted form the infinitive form of a verb plus any
complements (often direct object) or/and modifiers (often adverb) and in this
short passage there are none of them, so they can’t contribute to the mood.</span>
