Read the following passage from "The Nose."
"Listen, my dear," he used to say when he met an old
woman in the street who sold shirt-fronts; "go to my house
in Sadovaia Street and ask 'Does Major Kovaloff live here?
Any child can tell you where it is."
The speaker most clearly has a(n).
tone.
A. arrogant
B. suspenseful
C. humble
D. casual