Select the correct inference of the given passage from "the cask of amontillado."
"i continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."
select one:
a. the narrator wishes to reveal his hatred for his victim.
b. the narrator continues to smile at his victim.
c. the narrator has plotted his revenge in secret.
d. the narrator is a friendly person to all.

Read the excerpt from poe’s "the fall of the house of usher." his ordinary occupations were neglected or forgotten. he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, an objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue -- but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. which statement best describes the effect of the narration on the story? the narration reveals usher’s feelings of discouragement. the narration reveals usher’s absent-mindedness after his loss. the narration suggests usher’s confusion in the wake of his loss. the narration suggests usher’s mental decline after his sister’s death.