Our refrigerator is very dirty. it is so gross! the outside is full of dirty fingerprints. the inside is full of drips and spills. even the top of the refrigerator is sticky, dusty, and greasy. i am glad that it is not my turn to clean out that disaster area!

which best describes the variety of sentence length in the provided paragraph?
a) the writer does not vary her sentence length; she uses average length sentences.
b) the writer uses short and long sentences, but no average length sentences.
c) the writer varies her sentence length by starting off with several average ones and finishing with two longer ones.
d) the writer varies her sentence length by starting off with several short ones and finishing with two longer ones.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator