The continent hath at this time the largest body of armed and disciplined men of any power under heaven: and is just arrived at the pitch of strength, in which no single colony is able to support itself, and the whole, when united is able to do anything

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion