Which of the following text citations from "From Emperor to Citizen" best supports the answer selected above?

(1 point)
Responses

a. "The 'Articles for Favorable Treatment' stipulated that I could live temporarily in the Imperial Palace without fixing any definite time limit."

b. "Whenever I think of my childhood, my head fills with a yellow mist."

c. "When I learned to ride a bicycle and ordered the removal of all the upright wooden thresholds in the palace so that I could ride around without obstruction, the procession was no longer able to follow me, and so it had to be temporarily abolished."

d. "Thus it was that with the connivance of the Republican authorities we continued our prodigious waste of the sweat and blood of the people in order to maintain our former pomp and continue our parasitic way of life."

d. "Thus it was that with the connivance of the Republican authorities we continued our prodigious waste of the sweat and blood of the people in order to maintain our former pomp and continue our parasitic way of life."