Question

6. Marie: Monseigneur the Bishop told me this afternoon, while you were out to
take them to Monseigneur Gervais, who has often admired them and sell
them for as much as I could
(1) What is them referred to here?
(ii) Why had the Bishop told Marie to sell them?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The question has been reference from the story The Bishop's Candlesticks.  In the story the main theme is that how kindness can change a convicted criminal person to a noble man. The statement given here refers to candlesticks. Bishop had candlesticks which were given to him by his mother and he liked them a lot. Despite that he gave them to Marie so that he could sell them and start a new and noble means of earning

Answer 2

answers:

i) salt-cellars

ii) bishop told marie to sell them because the officers of the court could not wait any longer and was threatened to kick her out if it was not paid

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