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Read the excerpt from “The Wife” by Washington Irving.

“Poor Mary!” at length broke, with a heavy sigh, from his lips.

“And what of her,” asked I, “has anything happened to her?”

“What,” said he, darting an impatient glance, “is it nothing to be reduced to this paltry situation—to be caged in a miserable cottage—to be obliged to toil almost in the menial concerns of her wretched habitation?”

What is most likely the meaning of menial as it is used in the paragraph?

unnecessary

continual

detailed

lowly