Tell Tale Heart.
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Teksti
- Tell Tale Heart
- I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled.
- Who's there?
- I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; --just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.
- It is nothing but the wind in the chimney --it is only a mouse crossing the floor, It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.
- 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. So I opened it --you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily --until, at length a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye.
- And now a new anxiety seized me --the sound would be heard by a neighbour! The old man's hour had come!With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room.
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