Question 5 Points 3 Read the following lines taken from The

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Question 5 Points 3 Read the following lines taken from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the question that follows A servant in waiting took my horse and I entered the Gothic archway of the hall A valet of stealthy step thence conducted me in silence through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master Much that I encountered on the way contributed I know not how to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken While the objects around me while the carvings of the ceilings the somber tapestries of the walls the ebony blackness of the floors and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode were but matters to which or to such as which I had been accustomed from my infancy while I hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up On one the staircases I met the physician of the family His countenance I thought wore a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity He accosted me with trepidation and passed on The valet now threw open a door and ushered me into the presence of his master Excluding himself how many characters did the narrator introduce in this narrative