Which two words from the excerpt best contribute to the Gothic mood and tone of the story? -
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of HORROR, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant. A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first ARRESTED my attention; and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, MURMURED out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them. Our glances, however, rested not long upon the dead—for we could not regard her UNAWED. The disease which had thus ENTOMBED the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the MOCKERY of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously LINGERING smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death.

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b. he wants to keep from being identified by former masters.

explanation:

today we'd use social media to quickly spread a controversial idea, but in the eighteenth century, the printed pamphlet was highly effective. and thomas paine took full advantage of it. on january 9, 1776, when paine published his pamphlet, "common sense," he wanted to push the american people toward independence from britain. it ultimately ignite the american revolution. thomas paine argued that the monarchy was evil and should be rejected as a form of government. to underscore his point, he cited the bible to argue his case -- in judges 8: 22-23: "the israelites said to gideon, 'rule over us, you and your son and your ' gideon told them, 'i will not rule over you. the lord will rule over you'" (nrsv).

the answer is:

in the fourth paragraph. ( the paragraph that begins with “on friday of my third ”).

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