Answer:
“In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.” - publisher summary excerpt
Explanation:
It is very hot
Hector is worried about losing money
Somebody has been robbing stagecoaches
I believe the correct answer is the first option - <span>“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?”
It seems to me that through this sentence the author is trying to justify whatever bad thing happened. He wants us to understand that anybody can make such a mistake so that we shouldn't judge so fast.
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