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What words, phrases, or actions from the story help make clear to the reader what the word tarry means as it is used in this story?

"'Dearest heart, whispered she, softly and rath

"What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already

"Alone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts

D)

put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own be

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Answer: D) put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed

Step-by-step explanation:

To tarry means to stay in a place for longer than the person had planned to. There is no passage attached but going by this definition, option D should be correct.

In telling the person to put off their journey, the speaker is telling the other person to stay home (judging by the suggestion that they sleep in their own bed) instead of travelling like they want to. The listener is therefore being implored to tarry till the sunrise.

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