The correct answer is B. “Be that as it may, I could not help thinking, as I looked at the works of Shakespeare on the shelf, that the bishop was right at least in this”
Step-by-step explanation:
In literary works, the 1st person point of view occurs when the narrator or voice that tells the story is a character of the story and uses the pronoun "I" to refer to tell the events that occur during the story and in which the narrator is involved. Because of this, 1st person point of view can be identified the use of the pronoun "I" rather than she, he or it as in third person point of view. This means, the statement that uses 1st person point of view is "Be that as it may, I could not help thinking, as I looked at the works of Shakespeare on the shelf, that the bishop was right at least in this", because in this statement the narrator uses "I" and therefore, the story is told from the perspective of someone that is involved and is telling the events from his or her perspective which made this a first-person point of view.