Read the two excerpts from the paragraph. " the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge. truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, 'spare the rod and spoil the child.' ichabod crane's scholars certainly were not spoiled." "all this he called 'doing his duty by their parents; ' and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that 'he would remember it and him for it the longest day he had to live.'" the author's word choice is developed chiefly to express what sort of tone?