Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last…

A sentence-rearrangement (para-jumble) passage coheres through explicit connectives — contrastive or additive words such as yet, though, and — and through referential chains, where pronouns and repeated ideas point back to something already introduced. The correct order is the sequence in which every connective's implied contrast or continuation, and every pronoun's antecedent, line up with the sentence immediately before it, from the fixed opening line to the fixed closing line.

Tracing this passage from sentence 1 to sentence 6:

1. Sentence 1 ends with “a sound overhead caught my ear,” introducing an unexplained sound as the new stimulus the rest of the paragraph must account for.

2. Sentence B follows immediately: “It” refers back to the sound just introduced, and B characterises it as “a very faint sound, not unlike the sigh of wind.”

3. Sentence D follows B: the contrastive connective “Yet” directly overturns the wind-like description just given, arguing “it could not have been the wind, for the night was still as the grave” — so “it” still points to the same sound.

4. Sentence A follows D: “it” continues to refer to the sound, and “Though it was not repeated” concedes that the sound did not recur even after being firmly ruled out as wind — which is exactly what motivates “I resolved to go upstairs and see for myself what it all meant.”

5. Sentence C follows A: after the resolve to investigate, it summarizes the narrator’s evidence — “Two senses had been affected — touch and hearing” — linking the newly described hearing to the earlier touch and setting up the narrator’s refusal to dismiss both perceptions.

Reading the six sentences in this order — 1, B, D, A, C, 6 — every pronoun (“it”) and connective (“yet,” “though,” “and”) has a clear, immediately preceding antecedent with no logical gap. Sentence 6’s “And I could not believe that I had been deceived” follows naturally from C’s summary that the narrator had now been affected through both touch and hearing. This order also matches the original published source of this passage verbatim, confirming B, D, A, C as the coherent sequence.

The other offered arrangements break this chain:

• Placing C (“Two senses had been affected”) directly after D, before the resolve to investigate, and closing with A immediately before sentence 6 reverses the intended progression: the summary of sensory evidence arrives too early, while the later resolve has no bridge to the closing disbelief.

• Opening with C (“Two senses had been affected”) immediately after sentence 1, before the sound itself has even been described, leaves “two senses” with no event to refer back to; closing with B (“sigh of wind”) immediately before sentence 6 also revisits the wind explanation after it has already been ruled out earlier in that order.

• Opening with D (“Yet it could not have been the wind...”) right after sentence 1 leaves the contrastive “Yet” with nothing to contrast against, since sentence 1 never mentions wind or describes the sound at all.

The coherent order is B, D, A, C.