Writers pay special attention to detail in their writing. Each author has their own unique voice. Read the following passage and think about the picture Jacobs is painting. What do you find interesting about this particular passage? What is the tone of this passage (scary, dull, exciting, happy, sad)? Explain your thinking.

He sat until he was chilled with the cold, glancing occasionally at the figure of the old woman peering through the window. The candle-end, which had burned below the rim of the china candlestick, was throwing pulsating shadows on the ceiling and walls, until with a flicker larger than the rest, it expired. The old man, with an unspeakable sense of relief at the failure of the talisman, crept back to his bed, and a minute afterward the old woman came silently and apathetically beside him.