The Short Story; Specimens Illustrating Its Development, Ed., With Introduction And Notes
The book The Short Story; Specimens Illustrating Its Development, Ed., With Introduction And Notes was written by author Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 Here you can read free online of The Short Story; Specimens Illustrating Its Development, Ed., With Introduction And Notes book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Short Story; Specimens Illustrating Its Development, Ed., With Introduction And Notes a good or bad book?
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For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold — then, with a low, moaning cry, fell heavily inward uppn 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 antici- pated. 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 turne...d 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, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely discernible fissure, of which I have before spoken as ex- tending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened — there carae a fierce breath of the whirlwind — the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight — my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder — there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters — and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the " House of Usher" Note.
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