What do paragraphs 1 and 2 of Tess of the d’Urbervilles most suggest about the old families rank? A. Before the nineteenth century, the families that ruled England did so fairly and with a sense of swift, if
brutal, justice.

B. The people of the nineteenth century resented the
continued domination of those families that had long had power in England.

C. By the nineteenth century, some of the ancient English families had lost their power, wealth, and influence.

D . Even in the nineteenth century being descended
from a powerful family guaranteed one status and
privilege in England.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !

v

1. negative, complain without fixing anything.

2. she disagrees with them.