Read the line from "lather and nothing else." “are you going to punish all of them? ” i timidly ventured. the underlined word creates a(n) mood.

The answer is in fact Anxious. I am putting this answer here not to take credit, but merely because despite the fact that the other answer has a low rating by a lot of people, I just got this question, gave this answer, and got it right(on e2020/Edge). So I can confirm that Anxious is the correct answer, at least on those previously mentioned platforms.

P.S. It would not let me comment directly on the other answer so that is why I am putting this as a separate answer.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

the purpose in this excerpt is that you should never do things like that because according to the bible, if you have more than one wife it's wrong and a huge sin. i hope this .