Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan iliyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age

C. " Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them"

The excerpt presented above is from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Iliyich that shows that even in a young age Ivan wanted to be part of the high class society or the elite group.