Which excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death" best shows Prince Prospero's self-centeredness?

The excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death" that best shows Prince Prospero’s self-centeredness is this: But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.