Question

In which style is this passage written?
"Worries of a Winter Walk
by William Dean Howells (excerpt)
Within a block of the river I met a child so small that at first I refused to take any account of her, until she appealed to my sense of humor by her amusing to the pail which she was lugging in front of her with both of her little mittened hands. I am scrupulous about mittens, though I was tempted to write of her little naked hands, red with the pitiless cold."

a realistic style containing imagery

a romantic, allusive style

a satiric, neoclassical style

a realistic style relying