Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen.
"They have none of them much to recommend them,"
replied he; "they are all silly and ignorant like other
girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than
her sisters."
"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in
such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have
no compassion on my poor nerves."
"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for
your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you
mention them with consideration these twenty years at
least."
"Ah! you do not know what I suffer."
"But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many
young men of four thousand a year come into the
Which sentence is the resolution of the conflict in the
excerpt?
A.)"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for
your nerves."

B.)"Ah! you do not know what I suffer."

C.)"It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come
since you will not visit them."

D.)"Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are
twenty, I will visit them all."