House of Usher
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- "Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality. A glance however, at his countenance, convinced me of his sincerity. We sat down and for some moments. While he spoke not, I gazed upon him with a feeling half of pity, half of awe. Surely, man had never been so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher!"
- "The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians." "...On the closing in of the evening of my arrival at the house, she succumbed (as her brother told me at night with inexpressible agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer: and I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain - that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more."
- For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself: and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend. We painted and read together; or I listened, as if a dream..."
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