I believe the answer is b or c
I might be wrong, but I think it's a verb. :^]
-Paradise Lost
-Plutarch's lives of Greeks and Romans
-sorrows of werter
Answer:
Mrs. Putnam has been made desperate by the deaths of her seven babies, and, now, her sole living child has been growing unwell. She is panicked by the thought that she could lose her one daughter, and she needs to find a reason for her losses; she needs there to be a reason.
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