Question

select the correct text in the passage. which set of lines in this excerpt from easter, 1916 by w. b. yeats suggests that the speaker had only a limited acquaintance with the people he is writing about? i have met them at close of day coming with vivid faces from counter or desk among grey eighteenth - century houses. i have passed with a nod of the head or polite meaningless words. or have lingered awhile and said polite meaningless words. and thought before i had done of a mocking tale or a gibe to please a companion around the fire at the club, being certain that they and i but lived where motley is worn all changed, changed utterly a terrible beauty is born. hearts with one purpose alone through summer and winter seem enchanted to a stone to trouble the living stream.

Explanation:

The lines "I have passed with a nod of the head / Or polite meaningless words. / Or have lingered awhile and said / Polite meaningless words." suggest limited acquaintance as the interactions are described as brief, polite but lacking in depth.

Answer:

I have passed with a nod of the head / Or polite meaningless words. / Or have lingered awhile and said / Polite meaningless words.