the narrator begins to read to usher in order to relieve his nervousness. what causes him to pause during the story? (lines 497-510)
From the text:
At the termination of this sentence I started and, for a moment, paused; for it appeared to me (although I at once
concluded that my excited fancy had deceived me)—it appeared to me that, from some very remote portion of the mansion, there came, indistinctly to my ears, what might have been, in its exact similarity of character, the echo (but a stifled and dull one certainly) of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly
described.
Fall of the House of Usher
