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At the moment, as if the superhuman energy of his words had acquired the absolute power of a charm, the vast and ancient signs that pointed Usher parted slowly their heavy jaws of ebony. It was the work of a furious gale;-but behind the door stood when the great figure of Lady Madeline Usher, wrapped in her shroud. There was blood on his white garments, and his whole emaciated bore the evident traces of some horrible struggle. For a moment she remained trembling and wavering on the threshold, then, with a plaintive cry and deep, she fell heavily forward on his brother, and in its violent and final agony, she dragged him to the ground, dead- now and early victim of its terrors.

I fled from the room and the manor, aghast. The storm was still in his rage when I crossed the old avenue. Suddenly, a strange light was projected on the road, and I turned to see whence could spring a glow so singular, because I had behind me the vast castle with all its shadows. Radiation from the full moon was setting, red with blood, and now shone strongly through this crack barely visible once, which, as I said, ran zigzag building from the roof to the base . As I looked, this crack widens quickly he came back a wind, a whirlwind furious, the entire disk of the planet suddenly burst on my sight. My head turned when I saw the mighty walls crumble in two.-There was a prolonged noise, a noise tumultuous as the voice of a thousand waterfalls, and pond-deep stagnant placed at my feet closed and sadly silently