You are writing a paper about Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway,' and you want to comment on the beauty of text.Which of the following is the most appropriate statement for your purposes, based on this passage? 'What a lark!What a plunge!For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, 'Musing among the vegetables?'— was that it? —'I prefer men to cauliflowers'— was that it?'

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