Read this excerpt from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess."


"She thanked men-good! But
thanked/Somehow-I know not how as if she ranked/My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old
name/With anybody's gift..."

Which of these best describes the speaker's attitude toward the duchess?
A. appreciative
B. loving
C. resentful (I picked this one)
D. wistful