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Which sentence in this excerpt from herman melville's "bartleby, the scrivener" best exhibits the use of verbal irony?

a. before, i had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness.
b. upon inspection, the drawer exhibited a great array of the shells of various sorts of nuts. indeed, to this
quick-witted youth, the whole noble science of the law was contained in a nutshell.
c. so he sent him to my office, as student at law, errand boy, cleaner and sweeper, at the rate of one dollar a
week.
d. for the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy selzed me.

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