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But do you know, gentlemen, what was the chief point about my spite? Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it

In what way is the narrator most clearly a monster ?

A. He is straightforward about his spite. B. He is intentionally cruel for no reason. C. He is ashamed, even though he has no reason to be.
D. He gives advice, even when not asked for it.