Read the excerpt from irving’s "the mysterious stranger." his eyes rolled upwards, until nothing but the whites were visible; his hands were clasped together, until the fingers were deeply imprinted in the flesh. when the music expressed the dying agony, his face gradually sunk upon his knees; and at the touching words resounding through the church, “jesu mori,” sobs burst from him uncontrolled. which statement best describes irving’s tone in the excerpt? his pious tone highlights the spirituality of the excerpt. his melancholy tone highlights the despair of the excerpt. his condemning tone highlights the judgment of the excerpt. his serene tone highlights the beauty of the excerpt.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?