Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.

The mood of this excerpt can best be described as

confused.
delightful.
ominous.
righteous.

C. ominous.

Explanation:

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C.

Explanation:

The given passage is taken from the passage titled 'Abraham.' The passage is about a young 12 years old, 22,000-pound elephant, who served in a circus.

In the passage, Abraham managed to free himself from his trainers while on their way. After running for miles, Abraham land up in a forest. There Abraham meets his wild peers. The first thing Abraham noticed in this tall wild elephant, named Alpha, was that he looked ancient but was just 10 years older than him. It was because these wild elephants had repeated stretches starvation. These stretches led their skins to be wrinkled and his left tusk was broken because of fighting for the dominance.

So, from the given option that supports the claim about the difference between Abraham's life and wild peers is option C. Because Abraham was fed daily in the circus which made him healthy and strong and wild peers were starved and injured.