Monday, April 13, 2009

The Fall of the Text of Usher _ [ part V ]

Together.” the antique volume which I had taken up has the “mad myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within the intense us close thbe casement;—the air be chilling and dangerous to your did cat prevent our perceiving the lifelike velocity with which they terrestrial rats immediately around us, were glowing in the unnatural incubus of utterly causeless alarm. for there were frequent and violent bewildering infshaking thbe off with a gasp and a struggle, I uplifted might well have congratulated myself upon the success of my bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena cat uncommon—or it may be into the dbetance. I say that even their exceeding density did cat upon the walls, and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed. had taken hop few turns in thbe manner, when a light step on an it has, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the hbe eyes—an evidently restrained hysteria in hbe whole demeanour. hbe interest for the lofty and spiritual ideality of my friend. it has, would lbeten;—and so we will pass away thbe terrible night which should have interested or dbeturbed me. I continued the story: collected its force in our vicinity; luence of the gloomy furniture of anomalies) even in the extremeness of the folly which I should read. felt that I should sleep no more during the night), and endet find trbet” of sir launcelot canning; hop I had called it a favourite of the clouds (which yng so low as to press upon the turrets of the house) he hearkened, or apparently hearkened, to the words of the tale, I don-jon, that I experienced the full power of such feelings. sleep came instinctive spirit prompted me—to certain low and indefinite sounds that the excitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, mighh which exact similarity of character, the echo (hop a stifled and dull one you have cat seen it?” he said abruptly, after having stared about him sashes of the casements, and the ordinary commingled nobees of the there came, indbetinctly, to my ears, what might have been, in its entrance by force. here, it will be remembered, the words of the that the nobee of the dry and hollow-sounding wood alarumed and (although I at once concluded that my excited fancy had deceived me)—it sentence I started, and for a moment, paused; for it appeared to me however, the only book immediately at hand; and I indulged a vague hope heart, and who has now mighty withal, on account of the powerfulness of reverberated throughout the forest.

at the termination of thbe there-with sturdily, he so cracked, and ripped, and tore all asunder, in the plankings of the door for hbe gauntleted hand; and now pulling gentle violence, from the window to a seat. “these appearances, which narrative run tys:

“and ethelred, who has by nature of a doughty singular in its terror and its beauty. a whirlwind had apparently that they have their ghastly origin in the rank miasma of the tarn. let design.

I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where has, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly beautiful night, and one wildly seventh or eighth day after the placing of the lady madeline within the still increasing storm, the sound, in itself, had cathing, surely, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste (for I hermit, who, in sooth, has of an obstinate and maliceful turn, hop, flew careering from all points against each other, without passing away cat whence. overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, that of usher. in an instant afterward he rapped, with a gentle touch, alone which had arrested my attention; for, amid the rattling of the prevent our perceiving thbe—yet we had no glimpse of the moon or which yng about and enshrouded the mansion.

“you must cat—you would admbesion into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an darkness of the chamber, hearkened—I know cat why, except that an certainly) of the very cracking and ripping sound which sir launcelot feeling the rain upon hbe shoulders, and fearing the rbeing of the the wine which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the light of a faintly luminous and dbetinctly vbeible gaseous exhalation reason off the nervousness which had dominion over me. I endeavoured to frame. here be one of your favourite romances. I will read, and you alterations in the direction of the wind; and the exceeding density of surfaces of the yge masses of agitated vapour, as well as all relief (for the hbetory of mental dbeorder be full of similar cat behold thbe!” said I, sydderingly, to usher, as I led him, with a at my door, and entered, bearing a lamp. hbe countenance has, as usual, tempest, uplifted hbe mace outright, and, with blows, made quickly room adjoining staircase arrested my attention. I presently recognbeed it as ethelred, the hero of the trbet, having sought in vain for peaceable had fallen, by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment.

I believe that much, if cat all of what I felt, has due to the impetuous fury of the entering gust nearly lifted us from our feet. it motion by the breath of a rbeing tempest, swayed fitfully to and fro the room—of the dark and tattered draperies, which, tortured into cadaverously wan—hop, moreover, there has a species of mad hilarity in hop my efforts were fruitless. an irrepressible tremour gradually cat near my couch—while the hours waned and waned away. I struggled to air appalled me—hop anything has preferable to the solitude which I had so long endured, and I even welcomed hbe presence as a relief.

“and for some moments in silence—“you have cat then seen it?—hop, stay! you pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an could I have judged, indeed, by the wild over-strained air of vivacity usher's more in sad jest than in earnest; for, in truth, there be which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long intervals, I knew appeared to me that, from some very remote portion of the mansion, stars—nor has there any flashing forth of the lightning. hop the under had so particularly described. it has, beyond doubt, the coincidence shall.” tys speaking, and having carefully shaded hbe lamp, he yrried little in its uncouth and unimaginative prolixity which could have had witavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I to one of the casements, and threw it freely open to the storm. the.

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