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Claudine at School is a 1900 novel by Colette, originally written in French. The narrator is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a small, rural town. She presents herself as having a strong emotional attachment to the surrounding forests: _____
Which quotation from a translation of Claudine at School most effectively illustrates the claim?
"If I had a Mamma, I know very well that she would not have let me stay [in Montigny] twenty-four hours. But Papa—he doesn't notice anything and doesn't bother about me."
A
"And then there are my favourites, the great woods that are sixteen and twenty years old. It makes my heart bleed to see one of those cut down.”
B
"Green meadows make rifts in [the woods] here and there, so do little patches of cultivation. But these do not amount to much, for the magnificent woods devour everything. As a result, this lovely region is atrociously poor and its few scattered farms provide just the requisite number of red roofs to set off the velvety green of the woods."
C
"Under the firs, you light a fire, even in summer, because it's forbidden; you cook any old thing, an apple, a pear, a potato stolen from a field, some wholemeal bread if you've nothing better."
D