Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o'clock, when the shops were closed the by- street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all round , very silent. Which detail from the excerpt best establishes the gothic setting? "fine dry night" "ballroom floor" "regular pattern" "very solitary"

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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o'clock, when the shops were closed the by- street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all round , very silent. Which detail from the excerpt best establishes the gothic setting? "fine dry night" "ballroom floor" "regular pattern" "very solitary"

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The detail from the excerpt that best establishes the gothic setting is "very solitary." This phrase contributes to the eerie and isolated atmosphere typical of a gothic setting.

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