... to seek, these humans will become cowardly and seek not this fortress of death and destruction. No man now lives who still believes in honor and valor. No man has the heart of a king. I woke this morning in an ominous fashion. No sound or vibration woke me, only a cold shiver down the back of my scaled spine. Throughout my ... long years, I have seldom felt any sort of cold, for obvious reasons, which leads me to believe that one approaches worthy of my wrath. Could a man still live, ready to die for the good of ... stands, shield in place, with his sword drawn ready to fight to whateve...

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... had help from a familiar sound. "I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage" (pg 37). The young man believes that he can hear the heart of the old man; he has gone so crazy that he has taken what is probably the sound of his own racing pulse and some how conceived it ... to be the old man's. If the young man believes ... that he can hear the heart beat and believe he ... ...

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... that does not realize that his fear is taking over his entire body and mind, and murders an innocent man just for a sense of a diabolic presence. Thereafter, he tries to hide his crime, but finally his panic reveals the result of his fury. Although he took great safety measure to hide the old man's body, his panicky mind does not realize that his fear makes ... him listen to all kinds of voices and sounds and takes him to commit the wrong. The narrator describes himself as a "dreadfully nervous" (1) person. His opening statement does ... not a groan of pain or of grief - oh no! It was ...

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