Select the excerpt that reveals the exposition of the short story.
"Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it began immediately to seem to Ivan Dmitritch and his wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-pitched, that
the supper they had been eating was not doing them good, but Lying heavy on their stomachs, that the evenings were long and wearisome..."
"Ivan Dmitritch, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after
supper and began reading the newspaper."
"Series 9,499, number 46! Not 26!"
O'The St. Martin's summer is followed by cloudy, gloomy weather. It rains day and night, the bare trees weep, the wind is damp and cold. The dogs, the horses, the fowls
-all are wet, depressed, downcast."
