Read the following passage from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

Which words from this passage best demonstrate the speaker's feeling that

life is tiresome and dull?

A. restless nights

B. restaurants with oyster-shells

C. tedious argument

D. Streets that follow