Which excerpt to create the dreamlike tone in “the masque of the red death”?

What do the words spoken by the mouse in paragraph 3 tell us about her character?

In this example, what does the author use to describe laurie

Excerpt from jane eyre charlotte bronte 2 i was glad of it: i never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to eliza, john, and georgiana reed.