Answer:
Anguish: Deep pain and suffering.
Deign: to do something one considers to be beneath oneself.
meagerly: insufficiently or poor
presumption: behaviour that seems arrogant
Explanation:
In my opinion, from this excerpt, the only thing that can be seen is "suffering". He had absolutely nothing in his youngest years, he was as poor as a church mouse, but not only that, he apparently had nobody to be there for him. To me it shows a great deal of pain and sadness, and that is evident in this paragraph.
