Read the following lines from "And of Clay Are We Created." First a subterranean sob rocked the cotton fields, curling them up like waves of foam. Geologists had set up their seismographs weeks before and knew that the mountain had awakened again. For some time they had predicted that the heat of the eruption could detach the eternal ice from the slopes of the volcano, but no one heeded their warning; they sounded like the tales of frightened old women. Which of the following words best describes the tone of these sentences? (1 point) Responses distressed distressed mocking mocking objective objective ominous