Select the passage that has a more outraged tone.

‘Merlin has cast a spell! Merlin, indeed! That cheap old trickster, that rambling old fool? Nonsense, pure nonsense, the silliest nonsense in the world! Why, it does seem to me that of all the childish, idiotic, empty-headed, chicken-livered superstitions—oh, cursed Merlin!’

Suddenly, as he spoke, the tall grey form of Merlin took shape before them. The power of this wizard was so great and marvellous that he could come and go unseen, except when he intended that men should see him.

Adapted from Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Henry Gilbert, King Arthur’s Knights