Which sentence in this excerpt from william dean howells's "editha" use an ironic tone? the lady who was passing the summer near balcom's works was sketching editha's beauty, which lent itself wonderfully to the effects of a colorist. it had come to that confidence which is rather apt to grow between artist and sitter, and editha had told her everything. "to think of your having such a tragedy in your life! " the lady said. she added: "i suppose there are people who feel that way about war. but when you consider how much this war has done for the country! i can't understand such people, for my part. and when you had come all the way out there to console her--got up out of a sick bed! well! ” “i think,” editha said magnanimously, “she wasn’t quite in her right mind; so did papa.” “yes,” the lady said, looking at editha’s lips in nature and then at her lips in art, and giving an empirical touch to them in the picture. “but how dreadful of her! how perfectly—excuse me—how vulgar! ”

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.