The Reward of Enterprise by Ward Muir This is how it happened [said my friend Harborough]. I’m a novelist, as you know, but if I hadn’t had to take to writing I’d have been a rolling stone by profession and by inclination. In my more philosophic moods I perceive that, really, it was sheer luck . . . this occurrence about which you’ve asked me to tell you. I should never have made a success of any other trade but authorship. I’d have starved; instead I’m rather well off, as things go. But still—— You understand I was by way of being a bit venturesome, as a young man. I did a certain amount of journalism, from time to time, but my secret hopes were set on all that is implied in that specious phrase, “seeing the world.” I wanted to see the world. Keeping this object in view I shipped on a tramp steamer, with whose captain I had struck up an acquaintanceship. Nominally I was the purser, actually I was the Captain’s guest. Cargo boats such as the S.S. Peterhof do not employ a purser. "The Reward of Enterprise" by Ward Muir Question Use the passage below to answer the question. Which text evidence provides support for the inference that the narrator is an older person? (1 point) Responses “I’m a novelist, as you know, but if I hadn’t had to take to writing I’d have been a rolling stone by profession and by inclination.” “I’m a novelist, as you know, but if I hadn’t had to take to writing I’d have been a rolling stone by profession and by inclination.” “Nominally I was the purser, actually I was the Captain’s guest.” “Nominally I was the purser, actually I was the Captain’s guest.” “You understand I was by way of being a bit venturesome, as a young man.” “You understand I was by way of being a bit venturesome, as a young man.” “In my more philosophic moods I perceive that, really, it was sheer luck . . . this occurrence about which you’ve asked me to tell you.”

Answer 1

The text evidence that provides support for the inference that the narrator is an older person is: “In my more philosophic moods I perceive that, really, it was sheer luck . . . this occurrence about which you’ve asked me to tell you.”

This suggests a sense of reflection and contemplation that often comes with age and experience, indicating that the narrator has had time to think about their past and the events that have shaped their life.