How was St Augustine feeling at the beginning of the passage as quoted in The Discoverers A happy B C serene D puzzled E troubled?

Answer 1

The passage reads:

"So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I heard from a neighboring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting and oft repeating, 'Take up and read; Take up and read.' Instantly, my countenance altered, I began to think most intently, whether children were wont [likely] in any kind of play to sing such words: nor could I remember ever to have heard the like. So checking the torrent of my tears, I arose; interpreting it to be no other than a command from God, to open the book, and read the first chapter I should find. . . . Instantly at the end of [the first] sentence, by a light as it were of serenity infused into my heart, all the darkness of doubt vanished away." -St. Augustine, as quoted in The Discoverers

I would say that St. Augustine at the beginning of the passage felt troubled, since he was weeping. But by the end, it sounds like he felt serene.