Which quotation best illustrates the idea that the narrator sacrificed a great deal for his work?
A. “With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.” (paragraph 1)
B. “It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…” (paragraph 1)
C. “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.” (paragraph 2)
D. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.” (paragraph 3)