What was it -- I paused pause to think think -- what was it that so unnerved unnerved me in the contemplation contemplation of the House of Usher ?

On such an afternoon , if ever , the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here -- as here he is -- with a foggy glory round his head , softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains , addressed address by a large advocate with great whiskers , a little voice , and an interminable brief , and outwardly directing his contemplation contemplation to the lantern in the roof , where he can see see nothing but fog fog .

When the waggon had passed pass on , Gabriel withdrew withdraw from his point of espial espial , and descending descend into the road , followed follow the vehicle to the turnpike-gate some way beyond the bottom of the hill , where the object of his contemplation contemplation now halted halt for the payment of toll .