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adapted from The The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
During a dull, dark, and soundless day in autumn, when
the clouds hung oppressively low, I had been passing
alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of
country. At length I found myself, as the shades of the
evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of
Usher. I know not how it was but, with the first glimpse of
the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaged my
spirit, I looked upon the scene before me; upon the mere
house, and the simple landscape-upon the bleak walls-
upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank marsh
plants, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees with
an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no
earthly sensation. What was it, I paused to think, what was
it that so unnerved me about the House of Usher? It was
possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of
the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient
to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful
impression. Then, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse
in the neerinins hrink of a hark and buid fake near the
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Which detail from the passage develops the theme that true friends can always be counted upon in times of need?
OA.
Usher's letter spoke of illness, of a mental disorder which oppressed him and of an earnest desire
to see me...
OB.
A letter, however, had reached me in a distant part of the country
OC. Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to take a sojoum of several weeks.
OD. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my friends in boyhood.
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