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.
Al final de esta frase me estremecí e hice una pausa, pues me había parecido (aunque pensé en seguida que mi exaltada imaginación me engañaba) que de una parte muy alejada de la mansión llegaba confuso a mis oídos un ruido que se hubiera dicho, a causa de su exacta semejanza de tono, el eco (pero sofocado y sordo, ciertamente) de aquel ruido real de crujido y de arrancamiento descrito con tanto detalle por sir Launcelot.