The Fall of the House of Usher: Selected Stories / Падение дома Ашеров: Избранные рассказы. Эдгар Аллан По
Canning. I had a vague hope that the excitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, might find relief in the extremeness of the madness which I should read.
I had arrived at that well-known fragment of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the romance, trying in vain to get into the dwelling of the hermit peacefully, gets inside by force. Here are the words of the narrative:
“And Ethelred, who had a brave heart, and who was now mighty because of the powerfulness of the wine which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit, who was very stubborn. Feeling the rain upon his shoulders, and fearing the rising of the storm, uplifted his mace[27]
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