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House of usher

First crashout

So many so many hours

My friend you need to rest.

Rest? REST? I haven’t slept in the last four days.

A fourth night now?… you’ve got to consider your health.

How can i sleep when I know what is happening.

That?

You hear it.

That’s the wind blowing the tree branches onto the house

It’s Madeline.

I’m getting the doctor To help you-

No doctor on earth can help me.

Perhaps if we read it will calm you.

We shall read.

Seven days usher.

I know i know.

I cant sleep myself, its just your pacing all. Night.

I’ll never sleep. Madeline won’t allow it.

I was hearing you.

You haven’t seen her? Stay stay you’ll see her.

Close the window its cold you are not in good health.

You hear her?

.. with a noise that reverberated through the forest.

Listen.

… approached the shield on the castle wall.

You don’t hear it?

It’s just the wind and the stor

You dont hear it! I hear it! Ive heard it for a long long many minutes many hours many days I’ve heard it, but i dared not speak it- oh pity me we put her in the tomb alive!

Crash out cont

Said i not that my senses were acute? I tell you i heard her first feeble movements in the coffin. And now- Ethelred the breaking of the door the death cry of the dragon the clang of the shield, say it rather the rending of her coffin her dying shrieks the grating of the hinges of the vault.

No, no please-

Where shall i fly? Will she not be here soon? Will she not upbraid me for my haste? Have i not heard her footsteps on the stairs? Have i not heard the heavy beating of her heart?

Please

MADMAN!

Sit!

Madman i tell you she stands behind that door!