“There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by a stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle”. What is the narrator trying to convey by putting “and with sadness I have watched it in others” in parenthesis?

A. The narrator is admitting that he can recognize “cruelty” because he was “mean” himself

B. The narrator is erasing some of his own guilt by stating that others possess “cruelty” too

C. The narrator is indicating that he feels victimized by “cruelty.”

D. The narrator is hoping that no one will remember his “cruelty” toward Doodle