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which quotation from "the black cat" best supports the inference that the narrator feels he deserves to be punished for his cruelty?

“although i thus readily accounted to my reason, if not altogether to my conscience, for the startling fact just detailed, it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy.”

“i knew myself no longer. my original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.“

“ knew that in so doing i was committing a sin…even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the most merciful and most terrible god.”

“…i experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which i had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.”