Which sentences contribute to the overall eerie mood of this excerpt from “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe?
The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. {My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc.}{ We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs}. I paused again, and this time I made bold to seize Fortunato by an arm above the elbow.
"The nitre!" I said; "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed. {The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. }{Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough --"}
{"It is nothing," he said; "let us go on. But first, another draught of the Medoc."}
{I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grave. He emptied it at a breath. }His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.
I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement --a grotesque one.
