Pl helllp which sentence from the text of "the bet" best expresses the lawyer's development in the story? "'you have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. you have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty.'" "'your books have given me wisdom. all that the unresting thought of man has created in the ages is compressed into a small compass in my brain.'" "his hair was already streaked with silver, and seeing his emaciated, aged-looking face, no one would have believed that he was only forty." "he threw himself eagerly into these studies—so much so that the banker had enough to do to get him the books he ordered."

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The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.

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