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Over
the
upper
portion
of
this
huge
window
,
extended
the
trellice-work
of
an
aged
vine
,
which
clambered
up
the
massy
walls
of
the
turret
.
The
ceiling
,
of
gloomy-looking
oak
,
was
excessively
lofty
,
vaulted
,
and
elaborately
fretted
with
the
wildest
and
most
grotesque
specimens
of
a
semi-Gothic
,
semi-Druidical
device
.
From
out
the
most
central
recess
of
this
melancholy
vaulting
,
depended
,
by
a
single
chain
of
gold
with
long
links
,
a
huge
censer
of
the
same
metal
,
Saracenic
in
pattern
,
and
with
many
perforations
so
contrived
that
there
writhed
in
and
out
of
them
,
as
if
endued
with
a
serpent
vitality
,
a
continual
succession
of
parti-colored
fires
.
Some
few
ottomans
and
golden
candelabra
,
of
Eastern
figure
,
were
in
various
stations
about
--
and
there
was
the
couch
,
too
--
bridal
couch
--
of
an
Indian
model
,
and
low
,
and
sculptured
of
solid
ebony
,
with
a
pall-like
canopy
above
.
In
each
of
the
angles
of
the
chamber
stood
on
end
a
gigantic
sarcophagus
of
black
granite
,
from
the
tombs
of
the
kings
over
against
Luxor
,
with
their
aged
lids
full
of
immemorial
sculpture
.
But
in
the
draping
of
the
apartment
lay
,
alas
!
the
chief
phantasy
of
all
.
The
lofty
walls
,
gigantic
in
height
--
even
unproportionably
so
--
were
hung
from
summit
to
foot
,
in
vast
folds
,
with
a
heavy
and
massive-looking
tapestry
--
tapestry
of
a
material
which
was
found
alike
as
a
carpet
on
the
floor
,
as
a
covering
for
the
ottomans
and
the
ebony
bed
,
as
a
canopy
for
the
bed
,
and
as
the
gorgeous
volutes
of
the
curtains
which
partially
shaded
the
window
.
The
material
was
the
richest
cloth
of
gold
.
It
was
spotted
all
over
,
at
irregular
intervals
,
with
arabesque
figures
,
about
a
foot
in
diameter
,
and
wrought
upon
the
cloth
in
patterns
of
the
most
jetty
black
.
But
these
figures
partook
of
the
true
character
of
the
arabesque
only
when
regarded
from
a
single
point
of
view
.
By
a
contrivance
now
common
,
and
indeed
traceable
to
a
very
remote
period
of
antiquity
,
they
were
made
changeable
in
aspect
.
To
one
entering
the
room
,
they
bore
the
appearance
of
simple
monstrosities
;
but
upon
a
farther
advance
,
this
appearance
gradually
departed
;
and
step
by
step
,
as
the
visitor
moved
his
station
in
the
chamber
,
he
saw
himself
surrounded
by
an
endless
succession
of
the
ghastly
forms
which
belong
to
the
superstition
of
the
Norman
,
or
arise
in
the
guilty
slumbers
of
the
monk
.
The
phantasmagoric
effect
was
vastly
heightened
by
the
artificial
introduction
of
a
strong
continual
current
of
wind
behind
the
draperies
--
giving
a
hideous
and
uneasy
animation
to
the
whole
.
In
halls
such
as
these
--
in
a
bridal
chamber
such
as
this
--
I
passed
,
with
the
Lady
of
Tremaine
,
the
unhallowed
hours
of
the
first
month
of
our
marriage
--
passed
them
with
but
little
disquietude
.
That
my
wife
dreaded
the
fierce
moodiness
of
my
temper
--
that
she
shunned
me
and
loved
me
but
little
--
I
could
not
help
perceiving
;
but
it
gave
me
rather
pleasure
than
otherwise
.
I
loathed
her
with
a
hatred
belonging
more
to
demon
than
to
man
.
My
memory
flew
back
,
(
oh
,
with
what
intensity
of
regret
!
)
to
Ligeia
,
the
beloved
,
the
august
,
the
beautiful
,
the
entombed
.
I
revelled
in
recollections
of
her
purity
,
of
her
wisdom
,
of
her
lofty
,
her
ethereal
nature
,
of
her
passionate
,
her
idolatrous
love
.
Now
,
then
,
did
my
spirit
fully
and
freely
burn
with
more
than
all
the
fires
of
her
own
.
In
the
excitement
of
my
opium
dreams
(
for
I
was
habitually
fettered
in
the
shackles
of
the
drug
)
I
would
call
aloud
upon
her
name
,
during
the
silence
of
the
night
,
or
among
the
sheltered
recesses
of
the
glens
by
day
,
as
if
,
through
the
wild
eagerness
,
the
solemn
passion
,
the
consuming
ardor
of
my
longing
for
the
departed
,
I
could
restore
her
to
the
pathway
she
had
abandoned
--
ah
,
could
it
be
forever
?
--
upon
the
earth
.
About
the
commencement
of
the
second
month
of
the
marriage
,
the
Lady
Rowena
was
attacked
with
sudden
illness
,
from
which
her
recovery
was
slow
.
The
fever
which
consumed
her
rendered
her
nights
uneasy
;
and
in
her
perturbed
state
of
half-slumber
,
she
spoke
of
sounds
,
and
of
motions
,
in
and
about
the
chamber
of
the
turret
,
which
I
concluded
had
no
origin
save
in
the
distemper
of
her
fancy
,
or
perhaps
in
the
phantasmagoric
influences
of
the
chamber
itself
.
She
became
at
length
convalescent
--
finally
well
.
Yet
but
a
brief
period
elapsed
,
ere
a
second
more
violent
disorder
again
threw
her
upon
a
bed
of
suffering
;
and
from
this
attack
her
frame
,
at
all
times
feeble
,
never
altogether
recovered
.
Her
illnesses
were
,
after
this
epoch
,
of
alarming
character
,
and
of
more
alarming
recurrence
,
defying
alike
the
knowledge
and
the
great
exertions
of
her
physicians
.
With
the
increase
of
the
chronic
disease
which
had
thus
,
apparently
,
taken
too
sure
hold
upon
her
constitution
to
be
eradicated
by
human
means
,
I
could
not
fall
to
observe
a
similar
increase
in
the
nervous
irritation
of
her
temperament
,
and
in
her
excitability
by
trivial
causes
of
fear
.
She
spoke
again
,
and
now
more
frequently
and
pertinaciously
,
of
the
sounds
--
of
the
slight
sounds
--
and
of
the
unusual
motions
among
the
tapestries
,
to
which
she
had
formerly
alluded
.
One
night
,
near
the
closing
in
of
September
,
she
pressed
this
distressing
subject
with
more
than
usual
emphasis
upon
my
attention
.
She
had
just
awakened
from
an
unquiet
slumber
,
and
I
had
been
watching
,
with
feelings
half
of
anxiety
,
half
of
vague
terror
,
the
workings
of
her
emaciated
countenance
.
I
sat
by
the
side
of
her
ebony
bed
,
upon
one
of
the
ottomans
of
India
.
She
partly
arose
,
and
spoke
,
in
an
earnest
low
whisper
,
of
sounds
which
she
then
heard
,
but
which
I
could
not
hear
--
of
motions
which
she
then
saw
,
but
which
I
could
not
perceive
.
The
wind
was
rushing
hurriedly
behind
the
tapestries
,
and
I
wished
to
show
her
(
what
,
let
me
confess
it
,
I
could
not
all
believe
)
that
those
almost
inarticulate
breathings
,
and
those
very
gentle
variations
of
the
figures
upon
the
wall
,
were
but
the
natural
effects
of
that
customary
rushing
of
the
wind
.
But
a
deadly
pallor
,
overspreading
her
face
,
had
proved
to
me
that
my
exertions
to
reassure
her
would
be
fruitless
.
She
appeared
to
be
fainting
,
and
no
attendants
were
within
call
.
I
remembered
where
was
deposited
a
decanter
of
light
wine
which
had
been
ordered
by
her
physicians
,
and
hastened
across
the
chamber
to
procure
it
.
But
,
as
I
stepped
beneath
the
light
of
the
censer
,
two
circumstances
of
a
startling
nature
attracted
my
attention
.
I
had
felt
that
some
palpable
although
invisible
object
had
passed
lightly
by
my
person
;
and
I
saw
that
there
lay
upon
the
golden
carpet
,
in
the
very
middle
of
the
rich
lustre
thrown
from
the
censer
,
a
shadow
--
a
faint
,
indefinite
shadow
of
angelic
aspect
--
such
as
might
be
fancied
for
the
shadow
of
a
shade
.
But
I
was
wild
with
the
excitement
of
an
immoderate
dose
of
opium
,
and
heeded
these
things
but
little
,
nor
spoke
of
them
to
Rowena
.
Having
found
the
wine
,
I
recrossed
the
chamber
,
and
poured
out
a
gobletful
,
which
I
held
to
the
lips
of
the
fainting
lady
.
She
had
now
partially
recovered
,
however
,
and
took
the
vessel
herself
,
while
I
sank
upon
an
ottoman
near
me
,
with
my
eyes
fastened
upon
her
person
.
It
was
then
that
I
became
distinctly
aware
of
a
gentle
footfall
upon
the
carpet
,
and
near
the
couch
;
and
in
a
second
thereafter
,
as
Rowena
was
in
the
act
of
raising
the
wine
to
her
lips
,
I
saw
,
or
may
have
dreamed
that
I
saw
,
fall
within
the
goblet
,
as
if
from
some
invisible
spring
in
the
atmosphere
of
the
room
,
three
or
four
large
drops
of
a
brilliant
and
ruby
colored
fluid
.
If
this
I
saw
--
not
so
Rowena
.
She
swallowed
the
wine
unhesitatingly
,
and
I
forbore
to
speak
to
her
of
a
circumstance
which
must
,
after
all
,
I
considered
,
have
been
but
the
suggestion
of
a
vivid
imagination
,
rendered
morbidly
active
by
the
terror
of
the
lady
,
by
the
opium
,
and
by
the
hour
.
Yet
I
can
not
conceal
it
from
my
own
perception
that
,
immediately
subsequent
to
the
fall
of
the
ruby-drops
,
a
rapid
change
for
the
worse
took
place
in
the
disorder
of
my
wife
;
so
that
,
on
the
third
subsequent
night
,
the
hands
of
her
menials
prepared
her
for
the
tomb
,
and
on
the
fourth
,
I
sat
alone
,
with
her
shrouded
body
,
in
that
fantastic
chamber
which
had
received
her
as
my
bride
.
--
Wild
visions
,
opium-engendered
,
flitted
,
shadow-like
,
before
me
.
I
gazed
with
unquiet
eye
upon
the
sarcophagi
in
the
angles
of
the
room
,
upon
the
varying
figures
of
the
drapery
,
and
upon
the
writhing
of
the
parti-colored
fires
in
the
censer
overhead
.
My
eyes
then
fell
,
as
I
called
to
mind
the
circumstances
of
a
former
night
,
to
the
spot
beneath
the
glare
of
the
censer
where
I
had
seen
the
faint
traces
of
the
shadow
.
It
was
there
,
however
,
no
longer
;
and
breathing
with
greater
freedom
,
I
turned
my
glances
to
the
pallid
and
rigid
figure
upon
the
bed
.
Then
rushed
upon
me
a
thousand
memories
of
Ligeia
--
and
then
came
back
upon
my
heart
,
with
the
turbulent
violence
of
a
flood
,
the
whole
of
that
unutterable
wo
with
which
I
had
regarded
her
thus
enshrouded
.
The
night
waned
;
and
still
,
with
a
bosom
full
of
bitter
thoughts
of
the
one
only
and
supremely
beloved
,
I
remained
gazing
upon
the
body
of
Rowena
.
It
might
have
been
midnight
,
or
perhaps
earlier
,
or
later
,
for
I
had
taken
no
note
of
time
,
when
a
sob
,
low
,
gentle
,
but
very
distinct
,
startled
me
from
my
revery
.
--
I
felt
that
it
came
from
the
bed
of
ebony
--
the
bed
of
death
.
