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Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, (46)while in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty.[A] It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It (47)was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness. [B] They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were (48)fired with an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable, it would be less respectable. This was no passive (49)belief, an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient places of business. Tellson’s (they said) wanted no elbow-room, Tellson’s wanted no light, Tellson’s wanted no embellishment. Noakes and Co.‘s might or Snooks Brothers’ might; but Tellson’s, thank Heaven—!

Answer Choices of #46:

• NO CHANGE
• even if in the year
• even in the year
• while if in the year