A claim is a statement that must be arguable.
There must be at least two sides to a claim. For example, I can claim that I am the best person in the world (not that I am). Others can either:
1) support me, and be on my side
2) argue against my claim, and point out my faults.
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I believe the answer is A
From the text: "<span>At the termination of this sentence I started, and for a moment, paused; for it appeared to me (although I at once concluded that my excited fancy had deceived me) — </span><span>it appeared to me that, from some very remote portion of the mansion or of its vicinity, there came, indistinctly, to my ears, what might have been, in its exact similarity of character, the echo (but a stifled and dull one certainly) of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described."</span>
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The answer is "The woman sighed, and the wind sighed, softly through the trees".
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