Read the excerpt below from "the white company" by sir arthur conan doyle and answer the question that follows. the landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head. "you have had no great truck with the world," she said, "or you would have learned that it is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air." based on its use in this context, what can you infer is the meaning of the word truck?
a. dealings
b. peace
c. vehicle
d. travel

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