Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

elinor's curiosity to see mrs. ferrar was satisfied.— she had found in her every thing that could tend to make a farther connection between the families undesirable.— she had seen enough of her pride, her meanness, and her determined prejudice against herself, to comprehend all the difficulties that must have perplexed the engagement, and dumb the marriage, of edward and herself, had he been otherwise free; —and she had seen almost enough to be for her own sake, that one greater obstacle preserved her from suffering under any other of mrs. ferrarss creation, preserved her from all dependence upon her caprice, or any solicitude for her good opinion. or at least, if she did not bring herself quite to rejoice in edward's being fettered to lucy, she determined, that had lucy been more amiable, she ought to have rejoiced. (sense and sensibility, chapter 35, p. 24)

which of the following best describes jane austen's tone in this excerpt?

a)restrained and courteous
b)bitter and indignant
c)brooding and contemplative
d)facetious and sarcastic