Which quotation from "The Black Cat" best supports the idea that the narrator is tormented by the cat? "Yet, mad am I not—and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul."

“And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity.”

“For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me.”

“Alas! neither by day nor by night knew I the blessing of Rest any more!”

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes