The phrase that describes the setting that Gortsby imagines the elderly gentleman returning to is "some bleak lodging."
On the bench by his side sat an elderly gentleman with a drooping air of defiance that was probably the remaining vestige of self-respect in an individual who had ceased to defy successfully anybody or anything. His clothes could scarcely be called shabby, at least they passed muster in the half-light, but one’s imagination could not have pictured the wearer embarking on the purchase of a half-crown box of chocolates or laying out ninepence on a carnation buttonhole. He belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra to whose piping no one dances; he was one of the world’s lamenters who induce no responsive weeping. As he rose to go Gortsby imagined him returning to a home circle where he was snubbed and of no account, or to some bleak lodging where his ability to pay a weekly bill was the beginning and end of the interest he inspired. His retreating figure vanished slowly into the shadows, and his place on the bench was taken almost immediately by a young man, fairly well dressed but scarcely more cheerful of mien than his predecessor. As if to emphasise the fact that the world went badly with him the new-corner unburdened himself of an angry and very audible expletive as he flung himself into the seat.
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Use paragraph 5 from “Dusk” to answer the question.
Which phrase describes the setting that Gortsby imagines the elderly gentleman returning to?
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into the shadows
into the shadows
belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra
belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra
some bleak lodging
some bleak lodging
could scarcely be called shabby
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