There are many ways to communicate non-verbally, and lot of them involved interaction with physical space .
This part of the excerpt seems to be correct as it reveals that the diet alone is responsible for his ninth birthday: "It had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all."
I`m assuming the underlined word is dearth, so
the answer is a. shortage
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he was so much for your support of school and again and again and again and again and again