In “the minister’s black veil,” the minister’s fiancée, elizabeth, tries to get hooper to remove the veil. in this passage, he explains why he cannot. in which sentence is hooper’s argument for keeping the veil best summed up?

from “the minister’s black veil”

“your words are a mystery . .” returned the young lady. “take away the veil from them, at least.”

“elizabeth, i will,” said he, “so far as my vow may suffer me. know, then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and i am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. no mortal eye will see it withdrawn. this dismal shade must separate me from the world: even you, elizabeth, can never come behind it! ”

“what grievous affliction hath befallen you,” she earnestly inquired, “that you should thus darken your eyes forever? ”

“if it be a sign of mourning,” replied mr. hooper, “i, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.”

a.
“no mortal eye will see it withdrawn.”

b.
“this dismal shade must separate me from the world: even you, elizabeth, can never come behind it! ”

c.
“i, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.”

d.
“your words are a mystery . .,” returned the young lady. “take away the veil from them, at least.”

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

What is the purpose of kings nobel peace prize acceptance speech

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.