Which of the following excerpts from the text best reflect the humorous and surreal tone of the story? O A "Ah, it all passed his understanding! If only a button, or a silver spoon, or a watch, or some such article were gone, rather than that anything had disappeared like
this-for no reason, and in his very flat!"
O B. "For that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch, a dweller on Vozkresensky Prospekt (his name is lost now-it no longer figures on a signboard bearing a portrait
of a gentleman with a soaped cheek, and the words: 'Also, Blood Let Here')--for that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch awoke early, and caught the smell of newly
baked bread
O C. "He bit his lips with vexation, and hurried out of the restaurant. No; as he went along he must look at no one, and smile at no one. Then he halted as though
riveted to earth."
D. "It was clad in a gold-braided, high-collared uniform, buckskin breeches, and cockaded hat. And slung beside it there was a sword, and from the cockade on the
hat it could be inferred that the Nose was purporting to pass for a State Councillor."