We can infer from the details in this passage and another excerpt from the essay, shown below, that the author probably was . "He [the prisoner] and we were a party of men, walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone-one mind less, one world less."
A.
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B.
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C.
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