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Which sentence from“Lucy Larcom and Harriet Hanson" best shows Lucy's unwillingness to give in to the difficulties of life in the mill?

A. "Still, even as a little child, she always expected that she'd wind up in the mill." (paragraph 3)

B. "But, for the sake of the family, Lucy put aside her dreams...." (paragraph4)

C. “I defied the machinery to make me its slave,'..." (paragraph 6).

D. The buzzing and hissing whizzing of pulleys and rollers and spindles and flyers often grew tiresome."" (paragraph 6)​

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C. it’s says defied which is a synonym for unwilling
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