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The narrator sees Mrs. Todd in the procession and says that she "knew, with a pang of sympathy, that hers was not affected grief". What reason, if any, does the narrator give for this assertion? Use two details from the text to support your answer.


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Okay Nine of ten for the country of the pointed

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furs and our reading here And this is the long

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one or one of the two long ones All right

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The question the narrator sees mrs todd in the procession

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and says that she knew with a pink of sympathy

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that hers was not affected Grief What reason if any

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does the narrator give for this assertion used to details

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from the text to support your answer Thie The narrator

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knows mrs todd well enough to say that she knows

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her grief over mrs begs death is really the narrator

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says that mrs todd and mrs begg had been girls

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together and had seen trouble together Mrs Todd also knows

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all of mrs begs history which she tells the narrator

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This suggests that while they were close friends and explains

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why the loss of mrs begg is painful for mrs

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todd well the narrator is certainly not the type to

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bust out the waterworks and make a false show of

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mourning for mrs bag But apparently she thinks other people

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are Mrs Todd however is sincere in her grief The

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narrator doesn't tell us a lot about mrs todd and

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mrs bag but she tells us that they were childhood

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friends who had gone through hard times together So it

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makes sense for mrs todd be upset about her death

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A full scoring response states the narrator provides sufficient evidence

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for her claim about mrs todd's grief and discusses to

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details that suggest that mrs todd was sincerely mourning the

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loss of her friend So we do all those things

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Well yeah pretty much give us a three and move 00:01:35.106 --> [endTime] on

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