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Which detail best reveals the author's belief that Edward is compassionate and hardworking?

(1) As a result the fortunes of the transplanted family did not flourish, and Edward soon saw his mother physically failing under burdens to which her nature was not accustomed nor her hands trained. Then he and his brother decided to relieve their mother in the housework by rising early in the morning, building the fire, preparing breakfast, and washing the dishes before they went to school. After school they gave up their play hours, and swept and scrubbed, and helped their mother to prepare the evening meal and wash the dishes afterward. It was a curious coincidence that it should fall upon Edward thus to get a first-hand knowledge of [housework] which was to stand him in such practical stead in later years….

(2) But while the doing of these homely chores was very effective in relieving the untrained and tired mother, it added little to the family income. Edward looked about and decided that the time had come for him, young as he was, to begin some sort of wage-earning. But how and where?

option 1: Then he and his brother decided to relieve their mother in the housework by rising early in the morning, building the fire, preparing breakfast, and washing the dishes before they went to school.

option 2: Edward thus to get a first-hand knowledge of [housework] which was to stand him in such practical stead in later years...

option 3: But while the doing of these homely chores was very effective in relieving the untrained and tired mother, it added little to the family income

option 4: Edward looked about and decided that the time had come for him, young as he was, to begin some sort of wage-earning

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