23. Read this statement from the passage: As I look back upon the early struggles this can be said: there was not a prouder family in the land. Which sentence from the passage could best be used as evidence to support this statement? *

A- "I had just completed my thirteenth year, and I fairly panted to get to work that I might help the family to start in the new land."
B- "The next moment she had broken down, but only for a few moments did tears fall and sobs come."
C- "Yes, mother would have taken her two boys, one under each arm, and perished with them rather than they should mingle with low company in their extreme youth."
D- "In the winter father and I had to rise and breakfast in the darkness, reach the factory before it was daylight, and, with a short interval for lunch, work till after dark."