But, at length, we stood before the door of the master's studio. And there the servant left me. Departed and left me - to go in alone.

— The Narrator (Paul Frees)

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[...]

- You see, no one else would ever come to this house.

(Door squeaks shut)

- Then I followed his stealthy footsteps through many dark and intricate passages.

- My earlier foreboding heightened and was made fearful by the somber aspect of the hallways by which we passed...

- The many unused rooms reaching out with their vast emptiness, like some hideous jungle creeper.

- But, at length, we stood before the door of the master's studio. And there the servant left me. Departed and left me - to go in alone.

- The man across the room, half-reclining on the couch, his back turned toward me, did not hear the opening of the door.

- For the space of several heartbeats, I saw only the deathly pale and ghastly sunken features of a stranger.

- Then, only with difficulty could I recognize, behind that mask, my boyhood friend.

- For, surely, under light of Heaven, no man had ever before so terribly altered, in so brief a time, as had Roderick Usher.

[...]

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