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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.”

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt