“ The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. ”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher (1839). copy citation
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
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Source | The Fall of the House of Usher |
Topic | death disease |
Date | 1839 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/932/932-h/932-h.htm |
Context
“A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention; and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them. Our glances, however, rested not long upon the dead—for we could not regard her unawed. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. We replaced and screwed down the lid, and, having secured the door of iron, made our way, with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house.
And now, some days of bitter grief having elapsed, an observable change came over the features of the mental disorder of my friend.” source
And now, some days of bitter grief having elapsed, an observable change came over the features of the mental disorder of my friend.” source