It's B because he won't give up lifting the object untill he can do it.
Explanation:
Heathcliff showed Nelly with his behavior how is he really feeling about everything and when she rejected to take a letter from him, he was so angry and devastated so she decided to do that.
He was using threats to persuade her and he was warning her that he will do anything, he will show up with pistols or he will harm someone. That was something that impressed Nelly and she decided to give that letter to Cathrine because she also wanted to save everyone from Heathcliff.
Can you provide the sentence it is used in or the paragraph or the choices? I'm pretty sure it means being religious or relevant. But thats just the actual definition.
Every Gerund ends with - ing , so in this sentence we have ‘marooning’. Ths is a verb that acts as a noun.