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The day the cat was killed, Maddy watched her mother wind that old clock with her same little smile, cranking the gold way to its funer de granted
around the dining table in her dressing gown while her nurse read a pulp fiction on the front step, while her brothers scrapped thu friste
dripped the bits of potatoes and corn from their open, awful mouths, that clock sat heavy on the white carpet, at the end of the hall, mom homing songo na
terrible ticking. It made Maddy's teeth clench. Truly, there was no point to these silly, endless family dinners. Always being ska dock stap en trevet os usta a
clock was wound, thirteen years of her life wasted for this nonsense so far, burnt up in boredom, when all the while she had some very importantes do
back in her bedroom.
The long case dock had been left by the previous owner, or maybe the one before that, no one was sure. Cloaked in pine wood and always counting, toutes et
around the clock face, no farm scenes or flowers, just black numbers and wiry hands and that was that. Then near the bottom, a long sheet sedinta
square of smokey glass. It was too heavy to tip, too tall to place anything on top, old and faded and always suspect. Her brothers aruded it at rught, and the
avoided it entirely (or used to). The clock face glowing round and white, over the wooden suit, like a pale face ghost or a porcelain reapes, fedles and stets
arms. And mom would sing along with the pendulum while the boy knocked over kitchen chairs wrestling and playing tag, and grandmotins vould by the
television and the nurse would paint her nails. All the time, her mom would smile and hum.
Q1
The use of the word 'cranking' conveys the meaning that:
Ops: A. O the clock doesn't work
B. O gold was not a suitable metal for a clock key
C. O the key did not fit the lock properly
D. O the key was used with irritation on the mother's mi
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