Read the excerpt from "a wedding gift" and answer the question. when he raised his head his whole expression showed how upset he was. he stammered: "my dear, it's—it's from my best friend, who has had a very great misfortune. he has need of me immediately—for a matter of life or death. will you excuse me if i leave you for half an hour? i'll be right back." which best describes a character trait demonstrated by the character's actions in this excerpt? selfishness childishness caring next

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt