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And Bacchus, knowing that here spoke the son of peasants who many times had gone empty to bed after a day of toilful striving on the rocky uplands of Phrygia, looked a little sadly in the eager face of Midas, and answered: “Be it as thou wilt. Thine shall be the golden touch.”

Read paragraph 3 of "King Midas of the Golden Touch." The statement that Bacchus "...looked a little sadly in the eager face of Midas..." shows that


Bacchus knows that Midas will regret this foolish wish.


Bacchus regrets that he does not have the golden touch.


Bacchus wishes he could bestow this gift on peasants.


Bacchus would prefer that Midas accept his poverty.

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Bacchus knows that Midas will regret this foolish wish.

Reason: the sad look shows pity/foresight about the consequences of Midas’s eager request. The other choices don’t fit the context (Bacchus can give the touch, he’s giving it to Midas, and the sadness is about the wish’s consequences, not a preference for poverty).