单项选择题

When Frazer’s editors at Macmillan tried to ______ his endless augmentations, he insisted on a type size so small and a page so packed as to approach illegibility; and if that proved ______, thinner paper.

(A) protract...unwarranted
(B) expurgate...satisfactory
(C) reprimand...irrelevant
(D) restrict...insufficient
(E) revise...idiosyncratic