Select the correct text in the passage. which piece of dialogue best demonstrates a central idea in the passage?

A. "You must have left the sea many years ago," I said.

B. Kept us off the coast; and when I made port at last, it was too late to delay in those northern waters with such a vessal and such a crew as I had.

C. A captain is not expected to be familiar with his crew, and for the company's sake in dull days and nights he turns to his book.

D. There's no large-minded way of thinking now; the worst have got to be the best and rule everything; we're all turned upside down and going back year by year ​