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Which sentence in this excerpt from Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" best exhibits the use of verbal irony?

A.
Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness.
B.
Upon inspection, the drawer exhibited a great array of the shells of various sorts of nuts. Indeed, to this quick-witted youth, the whole noble science of the law was contained in a nutshell.
C.
So he sent him to my office, as student at law, errand boy, cleaner and sweeper, at the rate of one dollar a week.
D.
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C. So he sent him to my office, as student at the law, errand boy, cleaner and sweeper, at the rate if one dollar a week
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Answer:

b.Upon inspection, the drawer exhibited a great array of the shells of various sorts of nuts. Indeed, to this quick-witted youth, the whole noble science of the law was contained in a nutshell.

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