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The girl told the man that he was very drunk and it was quite distinguishing. She asked him what his mom and dad would feel when he arrived home like that. He replied that if her husband slept with a dry stick or what.
Explanation:
Reported speech is demonstrated as the grammatical construction in which the content of a statement, utterance, or question is communicated without employing the exact words of the speaker. The primary aim is to convey the same message using different words.
In order to convert the statements in the given conversation to reported speech, some necessary alterations in the pronoun, punctuation, and the verb would be made to convey the same content.
Compassionate and merciful.
shrewd and cunning is ruled out
responsibility is not needed in this act of kindness
the text does not show the widow doing anything kind
Answer:
The word "idle" could also be described as "pointless" in the context. It basically means that John Thornton knows it is pointless to come between Hal (the fool) and his "folly" (meaning a lack of good sense), or his decision of making the tired dogs run on thin ice. Thornton probably thinks it is useless to intervene because Hal won't listen to common sense. Hal has already made a number of bad decisions on the trip, including not knowing how to properly ration food for the dogs.
