During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

“那年秋天，有個陰郁、晦暗、岑寂的日子，暝云低壓壓的籠罩著大地”，“鄉間一片無比蕭索的荒野，暮色漸漸降臨，滿目蒼涼的厄舍府出現在遙遠的視野”