【单选题】

Having been ------- as immoral by some reviewers of Tess of the D' Urbervilles four years earlier, Hardy subsequently------- to preface his work with declamatory caveats.
A．(A) decried... opted

B．(B) established ... failed
C．(C) answered... chose
D．(D) regarded ... relinquished
E．(E) ignored... desired