Which sentences in this excerpt from theodore dreiser's "my brother paul" are examples of characterization that suggest paul is a superstitious person? of all those who had been so lavish in their greetings and companionship earlier in his life, scarcely one, so far as i could make out, found him in that retired world to which he was forced. one or two pegged-out actors sought him and borrowed a little of the little that he had; a few others came when he had nothing at all. his partners, quarreling among themselves and feeling that they had done him an injustice, remained religiously away. he found, as he often told my sister, broken horse-shoes (a "bad sign"), met cross-eyed women, another "bad sign," was pursued apparently by the inimical number thirteen—and all these little straws depressed him horribly. finally, being no longer strong enough to be about, he took to his bed and remained there days at a time, feeling well while in bed but weak when up. for a little while he would go "downtown" to see this, that and the other person, but would soon return. one day on coming back home he found one of his hats lying on his bed, accidentally put there by one of the children, and according to my sister, who was present at the time, he was all but petrified by the sight of it. to him it was the death-sign. some one had told him so not long ! nextreset

In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battle-field of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.