Select the correct texts in the passage. Which group of words does the author use to advance the plot through the characters?
from Sense and Sensibility - CHAPTER IV
by Jane Austen
"What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing."
"No taste for drawing!" replied Elinor, 'why should you think so? He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the
performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving
it. Had he ever been in the way of learning, I think he would have drawn very well. He distrusts his own judgment in such matters so much, that
he is always unwilling to give his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in general direct him
perfectly right."
Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by
the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste. Yet, though smiling
within herself at the mistake, she honoured her sister for that blind partiality to Edward which produced it.
"I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. Indeed, I think I may say that you cannot, for your
behaviour to him is perfectly cordial, and if that were your opinion, I am sure you could never be civil to him."
Marianne hardly knew what to say. She would not wound the feelings of her sister on any account, and yet to say what she did not believe
was impossible. At length she replied:
"Do not be offended, Elinor, if my praise of him is not in every thing equal to your sense of his merits. I have not had so many opportunities of
estimating the minuter propensities of his mind, his inclinations and tastes, as you have; but I have the highest opinion in the world of his
goodness and sense. I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable."
"I am sure," replied Elin with a smile, "that his dearest friends could not be dissatisfied with such commendation as that and I do not
perceive how you could express yourself more warmly." Marianne was rejoiced to find her sister so easily pleased.
"Of his sense and his goodness," continued Elinor, "no one can, I think, be in doubt, who has seen him often enough to engage him in
unreserved conversation. The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps
him silent and you know enough of him to do justice to his solid worth. But of his minuter propensities, as you call them you have from peculiar