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It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depths of the recess. Its termination the feeble light did not enable us to see. "Proceed," I said; "herein is the Amontillado. As for Luchesi " "He is an ignoramus," interrupted my friend, as he stepped unsteadily forward, while I followed immediately at his heels.
I said to him: "My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkable well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts." "How?" said he. "Amontillado? A pipe? Impossible! And in the middle of the carnival!" "I have my doubts," I replied; "and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter.
You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain." "Amontillado!" "I have my doubts." "Amontillado!" "And I must satisfy them." "Amontillado!" "As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If any one has a critical turn, it is he. He will tell me " "Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry." "And yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match for your own."
For us it is enough to know that you were compelled to live by your pen, and that in an age when the author of 'To Helen' and' The Cask of Amontillado' was paid at the rate of a dollar a column. When such poverty was the mate of such pride as yours, a misery more deep than that of Burns, an agony longer than Chatterton's, were inevitable and assured.
"Proceed," I said, "herein is the Amontillado. As for Luchesi " "He is an ignoramus," interrupted my friend, as he stept unsteadily forward, while I followed immediately at his heels. In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered. A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite.
But, destitute of humour as you unhappily but undeniably were, you would miss, I fear, the charm of 'Daisy Miller. You would admit the unity of effect secured in 'Washington Square, though that effect is as remote as possible from the terror of 'The House of Usher' or the vindictive triumph of 'The Cask of Amontillado.
If a touch of your wand, Fairy, could transform one of these shells into a goblet of Lafitte or Amontillado we should have nothing to wish for." 'Amontillado' was Hebrew to Fleda, but 'goblet' was intelligible. "I am sorry!" she said, "I don't know where there is any spring up here, but we shall come to one going down the mountain." "Do you know where all the springs are?"
You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain." "Amontillado!" "I have my doubts " "Amontillado!" "And I must satisfy them." "Amontillado!" "As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If any one has a critical turn, it is he. He will tell me " "Luchesi can not tell Amontillado from Sherry." "And yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match for your own."
"To the chap who owns this lodge a man of taste, a good Samaritan and a gentleman, if a mere vagabond may be a judge of Amontillado." He finished the glass at a gulp and set it upon the table. From her couch she watched him as he opened the windows and closed and fastened the shutters.
It was succeeded by a sad voice, which I had difficulty in recognizing as that of the noble Fortunato. The voice said "Ha! ha! ha! he! he! he! a very good joke indeed an excellent jest. We shall have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo he! he! he! over our wine he! he! he!" "The Amontillado!" I said. "He! he! he! he! he! he! yes, the Amontillado. But is it not getting late?
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