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what is the overall mood of the passage?
a. the passage has an ominous mood through
b. the passage has a melancholy mood through
c. the passage moves from a cheerful to a sadr
d. the passage moves from a bleak to a forebod
by james joyce (excerpt)
north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street
except at the hour when the christian brothers' school
set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys
stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a
square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious
of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with
brown imperturbable faces.
the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the
back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long
enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room
behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers.
among these i found a few paper-covered books, the
pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by
walter scott, the devout communicant, and the
memoirs of vidocq. i liked the last best because its leaves
were yellow. the wild garden behind the house
contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling
bushes, under one of which i found the late tenant's
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