THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make a forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Apennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all appearance, it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned."
Which adjective best describes the tone of the story as introduced in the first paragraph?
Question 3 options:
uplifting
confusing
neutral
depressing