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Identify the point of view for the following excerpt from "The Monkey's Paw ."

She brought the stranger, who seemed ill at ease, into the room. He gazed at her furtively, and listened in a preoccupied fashion as the old lady apologized for the appearance of the room, and her husband's coat, a garment which he usually reserved for the garden. She then waited as patiently as her sex would permit, for him to broach his business, but he was at first strangely silent.

first person
second person
third person, omniscient
third person, limited

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first

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third person limited

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