Poe's Short Stories

tell tale heart

“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.”

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The narrator is checking to see that the old man is in fact dead..... and noting that the old man's eye, which frightened him so, would no longer trouble (bother) him.

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Tell Tale Heart

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