What passage are you referring to?
Willa Cather
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Faulkner
Robert Frost
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Answer:
There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle.
Explanation:
This was probably one of the saddest lines in the entire story. He is older when he says this thinking back on the memories of him and his brother.
D is incorrect because it is a run-on sentence.
I believe more of a mysterious tone but im not for sure