The statement 'The West Riding men are sleuth-hounds in pursuit of money' means that the riders from the west (or in layman's term, cowboys) are only interested gaining wealth or money. They are money-hungry people who'd find ways to make themselves as rich as possible.
The answer is a. It compares the two and gives examples that way it gives you a better idea of what each one is.
You can look on summary.us they have a lot of them.
He assumes that money is unrelated to the requirements of soul
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