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Treasure Island is an 1883 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. When the narrator was a child, his father ran a hotel. A mysterious sailor came to stay at the hotel. The narrator was frightened of the sailor, as can be seen when the narrator says,       
Which quotation from Treasure Island most effectively illustrates the claim?
"How the sailor haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions."
A
"I remember (the sailor as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow."
B
"[The sailor was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope."
C
"All the time he lived with us [the sailor) made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker. One of the (corners) of his hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew."
D