Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question that follows.

from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.

The narrator reinforces the idea that the shop fronts seemed inviting by comparing them to

A. "two doors from one corner."

B. "a fire in a forest."

C. "well-polished brasses."

D. "rows of smiling saleswomen."