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Which quote best contributes to Tolstoy’s style of emphasizing small, everyday details?
A. “He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact.”
B. “‘Oh, it’s awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!’ Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done.”
C. “To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.”
D. "‘Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow,’" he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.” **
E. “‘Thank God!’ said Matvey, showing by this response that he, like his master, realized the significance of this arrival—that is, that Anna Arkadyevna, the sister he was so fond of, might bring about a reconciliation between husband and wife.”

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D. "‘Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow,’" he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.”