Reread the excerpt from Treasure Island. He was clothed with tatters of old ship’s canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin. About his waist he wore an old brass-buckled leather belt, which was the one thing solid in his whole accoutrement. Which sentence from the passage below provides additional support for the inference you made in the previous question? (1 point) Responses “His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face.” “His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face.” “‘Marooned three years ago,’ he continued, ‘and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.’” “‘Marooned three years ago,’ he continued, ‘and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.’” “‘Well, many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.’” “‘Well, many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.’” “All this time he had been feeling the stuff of my jacket, smoothing my hands, looking at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow creature.”
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The sentence that provides additional support for the inference about the character's rough and impoverished condition is:
“His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face.”
This sentence emphasizes the character's harsh experiences and living conditions, suggesting a life exposed to the elements, which supports the description of his tattered clothing and overall appearance.
