What is the mood of the passage
ОА
tranquil
B.
confident
C
Critical
OD. angry
E
mysterious
Reser
rept adapted from
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexander Dumas
ne w s covered with the usual crowd of curious onlookers,
them of his was a great event in the town of Marseilles.
The spectrue when the Pharaon, it has been built in the
city and belongs to a local supowner
Meanwhile the wese was approaching the harbor, but so slowly and
with such an all of melancholy that the onlookers, sensing misfortune,
gan to wonder if an accident happened on board. However, the
experienced seamen among them saw that if there had been an
ident could not have happened to the ship herself, for she had
y appearance of being under perfect control Standing beside the
pot who was preparing to steer the ship through the narrow harbor,
was a young man with villant eyes and rapid gestures, he watched
every movement of the ship and repeated each of the pilot's orders.
The vague anxiety hovering over the crowd affected one man so much
that he could not wait until the ship entered the harbor. This man leaped
into a small boat and ordered the boatman to row him out to meet the
Pharaon
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Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of how a man was wrongly accused and imprisoned. The whole plot resides on his plans to avenge his wrongful accusations and redeem his image.

The given lines are from the very first chapter, starting paragraphs of the book. The narrator begins by talking about the approaching ship Pharoan. But as the spectators were looking anxiously for the ship to be on dock, they could also sense that something was amiss. The narrator states "an air of melancholy that the onlookers, instinctively sensing misfortune, began to wonder what accident could have happened on board", but then again mentioned that "experienced seamen among them saw that if there had been an accident, it could not have happened to the ship herself". This presents a mysterious sense of foreboding, unsure about what had happened but not exactly able to pinpoint the problem.