Read the sentence, and then answer the question.

"when night crept up again through the gorges, the reedy notes of the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps by the flickering campfire."
("the outcasts of poker flat" by bret hart, 1869)

at this point in the story, harte's description of the accordion parallels:

a. the duchess's and mother shipton's rising concern for piney.
b. mr. oakhurst's awareness that billy will not return with provisions.
c. the group's recognition that their circumstances are not improving.
d. tom and piney's realization that they must remain apart while in camp.