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select the correct answer. read the following sentences from the excerpt. (82) in my room i sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. here was i, theobald jack pansay, a well - educated bengal civilian in the year of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly healthy, driven in terror from my sweethearts side by the apparition of a woman who had been dead and buried eight months ago. these were facts that i could not blink. nothing was further from my thought than any memory of mrs. wessington when kitty and i left hamiltons shop. nothing was more utterly commonplace than the stretch of wall opposite peffers. it was broad daylight. the road was full of people; and yet, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in direct outrage of natures ordinance, there had appeared to me a face from the grave. best matches how blink is used in the text.
ecall or remember clearly\ \admit to myself or kitty\ \acknowledge as real or true\ \ignore or get out of my mind\
The narrator says "These were facts that I could not blink. Nothing was further from my thought than any memory of Mrs. Wessington when Kitty and I left Hamilton's shop." Here, "blink" means not being able to ignore or get these facts out of his mind as they are so startling (seeing an apparition of a dead - woman).
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"Ignore or get out of my mind"