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which quotation from "the black cat" best supports the idea that the narrator wants the reader’s compassion?
“my immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events.”
“who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? ”
“my original soul take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”
“i had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me.”