The statement that best shows a mood and the evidence of the mood is "A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell, / The Devil below was ringing his knell"; it creates an ominous mood.
<h3>Which mood is present in the excerpt?</h3><h3 />
An ominous mood refers to when there is a feeling that something bad might happen in the next scenes.
By saying that the devil was ringing his knell, it meant that evil was approaching and something bad might happen.
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