I think it's the second one.
Assuming that the question is related to Abraham Lincoln´s 1865 speech, in the Second Inaugural Adress, in short words, what he is trying to say is that if difficulties come from God, is because there is something wrong that should be corrected, that there is something that needs to be fixed, therefore, the evidence that he quotes is that slavery as it is something wrong in the sense that it was one of the reasons for war, then it needed to be corrected, the war was the way to fix this matter.
The answer is to help the reader visualize a house bordered by smaller cottages
<em>He was spending his summer vacation, as he always did, with his mother at Grand Isle. In former times, before Robert could remember, "the house" had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns. Now, flanked by its dozen or more cottages, which were always filled with exclusive visitors from the "Quartier Français," it enabled Madame Lebrun to maintain the easy and comfortable existence which appeared to be her birthright.</em>
The author uses the word <u>flanked</u> meaning, according to Cambridge<em> "to be at the side of someone or something"</em> to let the reader imagine a large, luxurious and expensive house surrounded by small cottages but equally important since they were exclusive to the inhabitants of the French quarter.
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A or D neither of thise choices.
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