The Cask of Amontillado

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   amethystrose Teacher
   High School - 9th Grade

   Here are the first three sentences in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado": 

   The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk.

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