Select the correct text in the passage Which two sentences contribute to the overall eerle mood of the adapted excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe?
In this mansion of gloom i now proposed to myself a stay of some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my closest friends in
boyhood. But many years had passed since our last meeting
A letter, however, had lately reached me in a distant part of the country. A letter from him, which, in its wildly insistent nature, had allowed no
other than a personal reply
The handwriting gave evidence of nervous agitation. The writer spoke of a kind of illness-of a disorder which oppressed him-and of an earnest
desire to see me.
As his best and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, to provide some relief from his
malady.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.