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No Okay English lit people We've got a whole long

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another passage for you You can just skim it if

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you want but no extra charge Just dive right in

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According to the speaker Beaufort most significant weakness appears to

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have been is what our mulford while you skimmed it

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So you know Bo right article The narrator tells us

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that it was Beaufort Pride that led him to leave

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his country after losing everything thereby falling into a vicious

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cycle of misfortune See it kind of says it right

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in there He just couldn't bear being a poor man

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in the same place where he was once the bee's

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knees So the answer is B pride as in prejudice

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And when they wrote a lot about that stuff back

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then All right loser bowl Well greed A doesn't seem

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to be his biggest weakness on as if he was

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in a position to indulge in luxury or anything Vanity

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might sound like it could work but usually that weakness

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relates to the actual physical appearance of someone rather than

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just there You know social status poverty D was definitely

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the problem that led him to suffer so much But

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it wasn't the weakness that caused him to feel embarrassed

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by his status and illness and welcomes at the very

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end as a consequence of all the other nastiness not

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because so the answer is B It's pride Oh Beaufort 00:01:32.96 --> [endTime] it goeth before a fall

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