It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. - Paragraph 2
So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept. - Paragraph 3
It was open — wide, wide open — and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness — all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man’s face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.- Paragraph 9
With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once — once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him.- Paragraph 11
I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.-Paragraph 11
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!”-Paragraph 18
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