:39:05
The tarn is very deep.
:39:07
One of the Usher women drowned
herself in it.
:39:10
She was never found.
:39:13
I dare say it's deep enough
to swallow this house entire.
:39:17
I'm waiting, Mr. Usher.
:39:19
Last night you asked me about the
singular aridity...
:39:22
...of the land around this house.
:39:28
Once this land was fertile,
farms abounded.
:39:33
Earth yielded her riches
at harvest time.
:39:35
There were trees and plant life,
flowers. Fields of grain.
:39:41
There was great beauty here.
:39:44
At that time this water was
clear and fresh.
:39:48
Swans glided upon its crystal surface.
:39:52
Animals came to its bank,
trustingly, to drink.
:39:59
But this was long before my time.
:40:04
Why do you tell me these things?
:40:06
And then something crept across the
land and blacked it.
:40:12
The trees lost their foliage.
:40:16
The flowers languished and died.
:40:19
Shrubs grew brown and shrivelled.
:40:23
The grain fields perished.
:40:27
And the lakes and ponds became black
and stagnant.
:40:33
And the land withered as
before a plague.
:40:38
A plague?
:40:40
Yes, Mr. Winthrop, a plague of evil.
:40:46
Anthony Usher,
thief, usurer...
:40:53
...merchant of flesh...
:40:58
Bernard Usher. Swindler, forger.