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presence。   Bending   closely   over   him;   I   at   length       drank   in   the   hideous 

import of his words。 

     〃Not   hear   it?yes;   I   hear   it;   and   have   heard   it。   Long…   …longlong 

many minutes; many hours; many days; have I heard ityet I dared not 

oh; pity me; miserable wretch that I am!I dared notI dared not speak! 

We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? 

I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin。 

I heard themmany; many days agoyet I dared notI dared not speak! 

And   nowto…nightEthelredha!   ha!the   breaking   of   the   hermit's   door; 

and the death…cry of the dragon; and the clangour of the shield!say; rather; 

the rending of her coffin; and the grating of the iron hinges of her prison; 

and   her struggles   within the  coppered   archway  of   the  vault!   Oh   whither 

shall I fly? Will she not be here anon? Is she not hurrying to upbraid me 

for   my   haste?     Have   I   not   heard   her   footsteps   on   the   stair?  Do   I   not 

distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? Madman!〃 here 

he sprang furiously to his feet; and shrieked out his syllables; as if in the 

effort he were giving up his soul〃Madman! I tell you that she now stands 

without the door!〃 

     As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found 

the    potency   of    a  spellthe   huge    antique    panels    to  which    the   speaker 

pointed; threw slowly back; upon the instant; their ponderous and ebony 

jaws。   It   was   the   work   of   the   rushing   gustbut  then   without   those   doors 

there DID stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of 

Usher。 There was blood upon her white robes; and the evidence of some 

bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame。 For a moment 

she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold; then; 

with a low moaning cry; fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother; 

and   in   her   violent   and   now   final   death…agonies;   bore   him   to   the   floor   a 

corpse; and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated。 

     From that   chamber; and   from  that mansion;  I   fled aghast。 The   storm 

was     still  abroad    in  all  its  wrath    as  I  found    myself    crossing     the  old 

causeway。 Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light; and I turned to 

see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and 

its   shadows   were   alone   behind   me。   The   radiance   was   that   of   the   full; 



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setting; and blood…red moon which now shone vividly through that once 

barely…discernible fissure of which I have before spoken as extending from 

the roof of the building; in a zigzag direction; to the base。 While I gazed; 

this fissure rapidly widenedthere came a fierce breath of the whirlwind 

the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sightmy brain reeled 

as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunderthere was a long tumultuous 

shouting sound like the voice of a thousand watersand the deep and dank 

tarn   at   my   feet   closed   sullenly   and   silently   over   the   fragments   of   the 

〃House of Usher〃。 

       *   Watson;   Dr   Percival;   Spallanzani;   and   especially   the   Bishop   of 

Landaff。 



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