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“And still - the men - chatted - pleasantly, and smiled --- Was it possible -
they heard not? - Almighty God! - no, no? They heard! - they suspected! -
they KNEW! - they were making a mockery of my horror! - this I thought,
and this I think --- But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! - and now - again - hark! louder! louder! louder! LOUDER!
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! -- here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
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