English, 10.03.2021 22:40 lanipooh01

Which sentence from the passage foreshadows that something terrible might happen to Rainsford if he winds up on Ship-Trap Island?
"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable
as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
"The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island," Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors
have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition-"
"Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The
world is made up of two classes-the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters. Do
you think we've passed that island yet?"
Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier. The sensuous
drowsiness of the night was on him. "It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing
my eyes; the night would be my eyelids-"

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