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

"the apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time."

"there were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was beauty, there was wine."

"there were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments. there were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions."

"no pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous."