What tone is established in this excerpt?

“and vishnusharman made answer to the king: ‘o king, listen. here is the plain truth. i am not the man to sell good learning for a hundred land-grants. but if i do not, in six months’ time, make the boys acquainted with the art of intelligent living, i will give up my own name. let us cut the matter short. listen to my lion-roar. my boasting arises from no greed for cash. besides, i have no use for money; i am eighty years old, and all the objects of sensual desire have lost their charm. but in order that your request may be granted, i will show a sporting spirit in reference to artistic matters. make a note of the date. if i fail to render your sons, in six months' time, incomparable masters of the art of intelligent living, then his majesty is at liberty to show me his majestic bare bottom.’”

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”