Read the passage from The Story of an African Farm in which Tant Sannie attacks Em in front of Lyndall."So you will defy me, too, will you, you Englishman's ugliness!" she [Tant Sannie] cried, and with one hand she forced the child down, and held her head tightly against her knee; with the other she beat her first upon one cheek, and then upon the other. For one instant Lyndall looked on, then she laid her small fingers on the Boer-woman's arm. With the exertion of half its strength Tant Sannie might have flung the girl back upon the stones. It was not the power of the slight fingers, tightly though they clinched her broad wrist-so tightly that at bedtime the marks were still there; but the Boer-woman looked into the clear eyes and at the quivering white lips, and with a half-surprised curse relaxed her hold. Which best describes Lyndall's traits as revealed in the passage? The Story of an African Farm

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Read the passage from The Story of an African Farm in which Tant Sannie attacks Em in front of Lyndall."So you will defy me, too, will you, you Englishman's ugliness!" she [Tant Sannie] cried, and with one hand she forced the child down, and held her head tightly against her knee; with the other she beat her first upon one cheek, and then upon the other. For one instant Lyndall looked on, then she laid her small fingers on the Boer-woman's arm. With the exertion of half its strength Tant Sannie might have flung the girl back upon the stones. It was not the power of the slight fingers, tightly though they clinched her broad wrist-so tightly that at bedtime the marks were still there; but the Boer-woman looked into the clear eyes and at the quivering white lips, and with a half-surprised curse relaxed her hold. Which best describes Lyndall's traits as revealed in the passage? The Story of an African Farm

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Dominic Booker · Answer 1

What best describes Lyndall's traits is the excerpt "the clear eyes and at the quivering white lips".

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Lyndall is one of the main characters of "The Story of an African Farm". She is an orphan and a descendant of Europeans since her father was English. However, when reading only the text shown in the questions above, we do not have access to the nationality of Lyndall's father and for this reason we depend on the text itself to reveal information about her traits so that we can visualize her appearance. Only when the narrator states that Lyndall has "clear eyes and at the quivering white lips", can we imagine her with European features and can we visualize an appearance based on that.