Excerpted from "The Children's Hour"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!

Which word describes the poet's feelings in these lines from "The Children's Hour"?
A. amused
B. feeble
C. competitive
D. exasperated