The Tell Tale Heart

Hearken! and observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not.

So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked upon him while he slept.

Never before that night, had I felt the extent of my own powers - of my sagacity.

I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph.

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror.

Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain.

Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain.

And it was the mournful influence of ht unperceived shadow that caused him to feel - although he neither saw nor heard - to feel the presence of my head within the room.

When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little - a very, very little crevice in the lantern.

It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

But even yet I refrained and kept still.

This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall.

First of all I dismembered the corpse.

In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.

I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased.

Anything was more tolerable than this derision!

And this I did for seven long nights - very night just at midnight - but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror.

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