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Answer:
insecure; cowardly; nervous
B. <span>"No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge."
This shows us how all people he saw on the street would stay out of his way and wouldn't bear talking or even looking at Scrooge.</span>
For when you have to write a letter, or make an advertisement.
