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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?
Lucy runs to the edge of Kensington Gardens because...
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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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