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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