They continued to ply at their usual occupations, some arriving full freighted into port, others sallying forth on new expeditions, like so many merchantmen in a money making metropolis, little suspicious of impending bankruptcy and downfall.

this sentence from the passage contains an example of a/an

he is suggesting that this widow is a strong woman, who is giving constructive criticism and she has enough to worry about, and she takes care of him, so he does not take it to heart.

for me this my answer o fortunately, they did not notice, and i could pretend not to care.​   i hope this you

answer: i think it is d

explanation: because i remember learning about this