read the excerpt from \early victorian tea set\ by neil macgregor. this is quite clearly mid - range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest british households were then able to afford. but the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver. the historian celina fox explains that tea - time had become a very smart event: in the 1840s the duchess of bedford introduces the ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had become so late, seven - thirty to eight o’clock, that it was a bit of a gap for the british tummy between lunchtime and evening. for a while there was a revival of tea - drinking, as a sort of meal for sandwiches and so forth, around four o’clock. which line is a direct quotation from an external source? ∘ his is quite clearly mid - range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest british households were then able to afford.\ ∘ \but the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver.\ ∘ he historian celina fox explains that tea - time had become a very smart event...\ ∘ \in the 1840s the duchess of bedford introduces the ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had become so late, seven - thirty to eight o’clock...\

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read the excerpt from \early victorian tea set\ by neil macgregor. this is quite clearly mid - range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest british households were then able to afford. but the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver. the historian celina fox explains that tea - time had become a very smart event: in the 1840s the duchess of bedford introduces the ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had become so late, seven - thirty to eight o’clock, that it was a bit of a gap for the british tummy between lunchtime and evening. for a while there was a revival of tea - drinking, as a sort of meal for sandwiches and so forth, around four o’clock. which line is a direct quotation from an external source? ∘ 	his is quite clearly mid - range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest british households were then able to afford.\ ∘ \but the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver.\ ∘ 	he historian celina fox explains that tea - time had become a very smart event...\ ∘ \in the 1840s the duchess of bedford introduces the ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had become so late, seven - thirty to eight o’clock...\

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# Brief Explanations:
To determine a direct quotation from an external source, we analyze each option:
- The first two options are from the author's own analysis of the pottery set, not an external source.
- The third option is the author (Neil MacGregor) explaining what historian Celina Fox said, but it's the author's paraphrase/introduction, not a direct quote of the external source's words.
- The fourth option is a direct quote of the content (about the Duchess of Bedford and afternoon tea) that is being presented as coming from an external source (the information about the Duchess's introduction of afternoon tea, likely from historical records or Celina Fox's work, and it's presented as a direct quotation of that external information).

# Answer:
D. "In the 1840s the Duchess of Bedford introduces the ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had become so late, seven - thirty to eight o'clock..." (assuming the last option is labeled D; if the original options had different labels, adjust the label but keep the text. Based on the options provided, the last option with the text about the Duchess of Bedford introducing afternoon tea is the direct quotation from an external source.)

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