Answer:
The narrator insists that he can speak calmly, but his manner of speaking suggests that he is not at all calm.
Explanation:
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-I could be wrong- Id go with the 3rd choice
Sergei although may seem embittered is a kind man who has used his wishes for other people around him. He used his first wish to cure his sister's lung cancer and his second wish to cure his son who has development issues. He is a kind, self-less man who wishes to put the needs of others before himself.
1 Repent
2 Excavation/Crude
3Conclusively
4Worship
5gather
6 contemporary
7Remains/rodent
8 lurking
9decimated
10grim
11in the air
12carving