450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The History of Literature
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The Old Man's Eye
Every night about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it. 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. And this I did for seven long nights every 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. 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.
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