UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the passage below and answer the question The fact was...

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. it rubbed people's cheeks like damp flannel when they walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops atarred the window-panes at remote distancees; the sunlight

would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window

upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and

withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.

The feeling induced is one of