What is ironic about this conversation?
the attorney thinks that there might be
valuable evidence in the kitchen, while the
sheriff thinks that there are only kitchen
things.
the men are sure that the evidence is in the
barn and upstairs, but the evidence is not
there.
the law officials decide that the kitchen lacks
any important evidence, but all of the
important evidence is contained there.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive