The correct answer is:
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[D]: "<span>The men joke quietly, and smile rather than laugh" .
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I think it means like hes walking off of the bad path or maybe he was being slightly rude when he said this statment
2, 4, and 5 have to be the answer by process of elimination
Edit: 4 "he followed out his original design," is incorrect but 2 "Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite" and 5 "On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable." are.
I don't know this well, but tremendous could be "frightening", because considering that the person is warning the other person that should mean that something not so good would happen in that place.
They both are friends of Antonio and Bassanio . both salerio and solanio go to Belmont to tell Bassanio that Antonio is in debt and Shylock is going to take 1 pound of Antonio's flesh .
