English

Camren Cowan

28 October, 20:58

Read the following excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, and answer the question

Stephen looked older, but he had had a hard life. It was said that every life has its roses and thoms, there

seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had

become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thoms in

addition to his own. He had known to use his words, a peck of trouble. He was usually called Old Stephen in

a kind of rough homage to the fact

What is the tone of this passage?

satirical

pitiful

mitted

impatient