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...(for so was she called) passed slowly through a remote portion of the apartment, and, without having noticed my presence, disappeared. I regarded her with an utter astonishment not unmingled with dread
and yet I found it impossible to account for such feelings. A sensation of stupor oppressed me, as my eyes followed her retreating steps..."
"The Fall of the House of Usher", E. A. Poe (1839)
"...but 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..."
"The Fall of the House of Usher", E. A. Poe (1839)
"...Not hear it?
-Yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long
long
long
many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it
yet I dared not
oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!
I dared not
I 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 them
many, many days ago
yet I dared not
I dared not speak!"
"The Fall of the House of Usher", E. A. Poe (1839)
"...But from the disordered chamber of my brain, had not, alas! departed, and would not be driven away, the white and ghastly spectrum of the teeth."
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice (1835)
"I saw them now even more unequivocally than I beheld them then. The teeth!
the teeth!
they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice (1835)
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