Excerpt of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart [English]
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An excerpt of the tell tale heart by Edgar Allen Poe. True nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous. I had been in out. But why will you say that? I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in ****. How then am I mad and observe how healthily, how calmly I can tell you the whole story. It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted me day and night object. There was none passion, there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult for his goal. I had no desire. I think it was his eye. It was this. He had the eye of a vault shirt, a pale blue eye with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold. And so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever. Now this is the point. You fancy me, mad, mad men. Know nothing but you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded with what caution, with what foresight, with what dissimulation I went to work. I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it. Oh, so gently. And then when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern all closed, closed so that no light shone out. And then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have a laugh to see how cunningly I thrust it in. I moved it slowly, very, very slowly so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Who the man man would have been so wise as this.