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English, 20.09.2020 06:01, jennyrr9021

Read this passage from "The Monkey's Paw": Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed
ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting
his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even
provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting
placidly by the fire.
"Hark at the wind," said Mr. White, who, having seen a fatal
mistake after it was too late, was amiably desirous of
preventing his son from seeing it.
Which sentence best explains what the author is foreshadowing in this
passage?

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