Option A sounds like the most logical, as ‘tumbling’ down a rocky cliff sounds painful and maybe life-threatening, thus dangerous.
The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:
The meaning of the term Blight is <em>scourge, whiter, disaste</em>r.
The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.
“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.
"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.
omg! tysm this really helps me :)
So as to not expose the truth. I’m unsure about the background of the question
i guess that get up is the answer