Stories by Edgar Allan Poe; The Cask of Amontillado

a thousand injuries unfortunately allied born as i best good at one event it upon insults i bow driven you so well know the nature of my soul will not suppose however that i give adherence to a threat at length i would be avenged this was appointed definitively settled but the very definitive nurse with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk i must not only punish to punish with impunity a rawness and regress and retribution overtakes it's regressive it is equally unrest when the avenger fields to make himself out as such to him was done wrong it must be understood that neither by will ignore d and i didn't fortunato caused about my goodwill eye continued as was my want to smile in his face and he did not receive that mice my own now was at the thought of his immigration he had only point is fortunato follow another god he was a man to be respected and even fear and he

prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine you italians have the true virtuoso spirit for the most part their enthusiasm was adopted to suit the time and opportunity to practice in pasture upon the musician austrian millionaires in painting and generate fortunato like his countryman was a quack but in the matter of overreliance he was sincere in the suspect's i did not differ from him materially i was skillful in the italian vintages myself and bob largely whenever i could it was about dusk one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season that i encountered my friend he accosted me with excessive warmth or he'd been drinking much about a walmart plea yet on a tight fitting party striped dress and his head was some mounted by the conical captain dale was so pleased to see him that i thought i should never have done bringing his hand i said to him i'd you know fortunately you are like we

met a remarkably well you're looking to date but i receive the plight of what passes for a more movie argo and i have my doubts ow he said ah montejano upright impossible and in the middle of the carnival i have my doubts i replied and i was silly enough to pay the full amount elbow place without consulting you and that you are not to be found and i was fearful of losing a bargain i want to i have my doubts out monty audio and i will satisfy them out mortgage iago and you are engaged i'm on my way to look is a if anyone has a a critical target as he will tell me look is it cannot to la monte audio from sherri and yet some foods will have it that has taste has a match for your own o come let us know whether to watch my friend no i will not impose upon her good natured perceive that you have an engagement i have no engagement come my friend now it's not the engagement of the severe code which i perceive

you are reflected the vaults are insufferable it down they are entrusted with a nightmare that is go nevertheless the code is really nothing i wanted to know you've been imposed upon and as the lucchese he cannot distinguish area from ahmadinejad the speaking fortunato possessed himself of my are putting on a mask of black soul and drawing all rock and they're closely about my prayers and i suffered and hari made my pillow so there were no attendance at home then obscure and intimate very in honor of the time i told them that i should not return until the morning in a given them explicit orders not to stir from the house these orders are sufficient i welcome you to ensure their immediate disappearance one and all as soon as my back i took from various cancers to fumble and giving wonderful job joe about him through several streets of room so the archway that lead into the vaults i passed on a long and winding staircase requesting him to be cautious as he followed

became at length to the foot of the descent and stood together on the damned ground of the catacombs of the monstrous objects the gaze of my friend was and steady and the bill's upon as kat jingle and as he strode the pipe city father on i said but observe the white wig work which gleams from these cavanaugh says he turned toward me and that and my eyes were too filmy orbs that distilled the room of intoxication yes late night and how long have you had that call ah my good friend found it impossible to apply for many minutes it is nothing he said at last from i said the decision we will go back your health as precious you are rich respected admired beloved you are happy as once i was you know amanda be missed for me it has no matter we'll go back you'll be killed and i cannot be responsible

besides there is an awfully said that golf is a mere nothing it will not kill me i should not die of a cough joe drew i replied and india had no intention of alarming or necessarily but you should use all proper proportion a draft of this medal could offend us from the champs there are knocked off the neck of the bottle which i do for long road that supposedly upon the most brilliant guy said presented him with a line he raises it to his lips with a lyric he paused an oddity familiar with one of his bells jingle i think he said to the buried the proposal around us and i to your long life he again took my arm and we proceeded results he said our extensive the monitors saw was i replied were a great stan numerous family either get your arms a huge human foot gotten a field as you know

the foot crushes a soap and rampant whose friends are embedded in the heel and the macho name all met in poor man lurches sick they said the winds sparkle in his eyes and the bells jingling my own fancy grew on the medoc we pass through walls a pile of bones of tasks and pensions intermingling and in most recesses of the catacombs i paused again and this time i'm able to seize fortunato by an arm above the elbow that night and i said see it increases it hangs like moths upon the markets we're below the river's bed the drops of moisture trickle among the bones come will go backwards to make your offer it is nothing he said let us go on but first another draft of the bedrock i brokered reached him a flight in a bigger love him to get a breath his eyes flashed of the fears slightly left and through the bottle up with just a collation i did not understand i looked at him and surprise he repeated the movement a

grotesque one cannot comprehend he said not i i replied but we are not of the brotherhood how you are not of the masons oh yes yes yes new impossible may soon a mason i reply a sign he said it as this guy and i produced a trial from beneath the foods of my rocker jess exclaimed reporting a few patients about us proceeds of el monte are not it's so i said replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering to my own healing the bonnet heavily we continued our routine search of their monthly other we passed through a range of low arches descended past on and descending again arrived at a deep crypt in which the fallenness of the year caused the flambeau rather the glow and flame of the most remote and of the crypt there appeared another less patience its walls of them lined with human remains pile into the vault overhead in the fashion of the great

catacombs of paris three sides of this immigrant was still ornamented in this manner from the fourth the bones of them thrown down and lay promiscuously upon the earth farming at one end a mound of some size within the wall less exposed by the displacing of the bones were perceived as still interior recess in depth about four feet and with three in height six or seven it seemed to have been constructed for no special use within itself that formed nearly the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs and was backed by one of their circumscribe in walls of solid ground it was a name that fortunato uplifting his blowtorch endeavored to pry into the depth of the recess extermination the people like did not enable us to see he proceeded i said here im is the el monte are below us military's eight here's an ignoramus interrupted my friend as he stepped and steadily forward while i followed

immediately and in an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche and finding is progress arrested by the rocks that stupidly bewildered a moment more and i had figured him to the granite in its service went to ireland staples distant from each other about two feet horizontally from one of these depended a short chain from the other a padlock throwing the links about his waist it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it used to much astounded to resist withdrawing the key i stepped back from the recess as your hand i said over the war you cannot help feeling the night or indeed it is very bad ones well let me implore you to return know that i must positively leave you but i must first renter you all the little attention to my power lil montejano ejaculate of my friend much at recovering from his astonishment true i replied the unwanted up

as i said these words i busy myself among the pile of bones of which i've spoken before throwing them aside i soon uncover the quantity of building stone and mortar these materials and with the aid of my trial i began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche i had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when i discovered that the intoxication of fortune auto and integrate major want off the earliest indication ahead of this was a little mourning cry from the depth of the recess it was not a cry of a drunken man there was then a long and obstinate sign is i laid the second tier and the third and the fourth and then i heard the furious vibrations of the chain the noise lasted for several minutes during which but i might hearken to it with a more satisfaction they seized more laborers and sat down upon the

bones when a blast for cranking subsided i resume detrow unfinished without interruption the fifth the six and seven year so all is now nearly upon a level of my breasts i again cause i'm holding the flambeau of the mason work through a few people raise upon the figure levine a succession of loud and shrill screams busting suddenly from the throat of the chain farm seem to trust me violently back for a brief moment i hesitate about congo i'm saving my rapier i began to grope with that about in the darkness of the thought of an instant reassured i placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs and felt satisfied are reports the wall i replied to the o's of him who clamored i really echoed it did i surpass them in volume and strength i did this and the clamor grew stale there was no midnight and my task was going to a close

had completed the eight the nine and the ten two i had finished a portion of the less than eleven the remainder the single stone to be fitted and plastered in i struggled with its weight i placed a partially in its best in position but now they came from out of the niche a low last the director the hairs upon my head and was succeeded by a sad voice which i had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble fortunato the voice said they get at it very good just indeed excellent jess without many of its love about into the bottle overall i mean they're monty although i said oh yeah that they'll monday out of it is about getting late when a baby awaiting us of the beloved sober lady fortunato on the rise

let us know yes for the love of god these words are hardening for reply i grew impatient i called allowed what about oh you answer i called again when system plus the torch through the remaining up into a metaphor within a game for them returned only a jingling of the belts my heart grew sick of the dampness of the catacombs it isn't to make an end of my labor i forced the last stone and was positioned i plastered against the new masonry i re record be overrun part of blooms for the health of the century no mortal has just given in j records scott