The use of phrases, fragments, and punctuation can affect the pace and mood of a text. How would you describe the pace of the following passage?

"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence."

Fast
Slow
Both fast and slow
Average

I believe it is either average or slow but I am not sure.