Make a prediction about what you think will happen in the rest of the story. Provide evidence from the text that supports your idea. This should be at least a paragraph long. with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in
her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim
to the terrors he had anticipated.
From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still
abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there
shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could
have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me. The radiance
was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon which now shone vividly through
that once barely-discernible fissure of which I have before spoken as extending from
the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure
rapidly widened—there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind—the entire orb of the
satellite burst at once upon my sight—my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls
rushing asunder—there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a
thousand waters—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently
over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”