Questions 1–3 refer to the passage below.
(SIR PETER:) When an old bachelor marries a young wife,
what is he to expect? ’Tis now six months since Lady
Teazle made me the happiest of men—and I have been
Linethe most miserable dog ever since! We tift a little going
(5)to church and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done
ringing. I was more than once nearly choked with gall
during the honeymoon, and had lost all comfort in life
before my friends had done wishing me joy. Yet I chose
with caution—a girl bred wholly in the country, who
(10)never knew luxury beyond one silk gown, nor dissipation
above the annual gala of a race ball. Yet she now plays
her part in all the extravagant fopperies of fashion and
the town, with as ready a grace as if she never had seen
a bush or a grassplot out of Grosvenor Square!*—I am
(15)sneered at by all my acquaintance and paragraphed in the
newspapers. She dissipates my fortune, and contradicts all
my humors; yet the worst of it is, I doubt I love her, or I
should never bear all this. However, I’ll never be weak
enough to own it.
(1777)
*a fashionable section of London
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According to lines 8–11 (“Yet I chose . . . race ball”), Sir Peter chose a bride that he hoped would be
different from the rural women of her time
ignorant of his wish for a lavish lifestyle
innocent and guileless in morals and habits
fond of the duties that accompany life on a farm
graceful, accomplished, and socially sophisticated