Which excerpt from paragraph 4 is an example of verbal irony, in which what is stated in the text is not really what is meant?

A. ". . . because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honor to a dirty procession of monks"
B. ". . . such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off"
C. ". . . to come down and be sawn and into boards, to make a certain moveable framework with a sack and a knife in it"
D. ". . . in the rough outhouses of some tillers adjacent to the heavy lands of Paris there were sheltered from the weather that very day"