Near the end of Chapter 16, Lyddie isn’t feeling well, and Mr. Mardsen asks her to wait when the others leave. “Let me go! She wanted to cry. She tried to pull back from him, but he clutched tighter she raised her booted foot and stomped her heel down with all her might” (129). What is Mr. Mardsen trying to do? What does Lyddie do? *

first of all, dante wanted to write an account of the search for spiritual atonement and salvation, and this desire drew heavily from dante's own experiences. dante was living in exile while writing inferno and so, much like his poetic counterpart, he felt like he had lost his way and needed direction.

explanation:

comfort   in their suffering

one context clue that me find the meaning of luxuriance was that the base word of luxuriance is luxury, so i think that luxuriance means something that is luxury, or something luxurious.