450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The History of Literature
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The Death Watches in the Wall - The Groan of Mortal Terror
I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. 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,. harkening to the death watches in the wall. Although I chuckled at heart, I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel, although he neither saw nor heard, to
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