Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two sentences contribute
sense of hope in this excerpt from The Story of an Hour* by Kate Chopin? of
wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, In her
sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself of she went away to
her room
She
alone. She would have no one follow her. comfortable, roomy arknchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted
There stood, facing the open window, a
her
body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see In the open square before her house the
tops of trees that were all aquiver with
the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain
was in the air. In the street below,
peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone
was singing reached her faintly,
and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the
one above the other in the west facing her
clouds that had met and piled
window.
She sat with her head thrown back
upon the cushion of the chair,
quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her,
as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams. Ya