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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 I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would
be avenged; this was a point definitively settledbut the very
definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of
risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong
is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally
unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to
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It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had

I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good-will. I continued, as
was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my
smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
He had a weak pointthis Fortunatoalthough in other
regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided
himself on his connoisseurship1 in wine. Few Italians have the
true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted
to suit the time and opportunityto practice imposture upon
the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary2
Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quackbut in the matter
of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from
him materially; I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and
bought largely whenever I could.
It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness
of the carnival3 season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted
me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The
man wore motley.4 He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress,
and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was
so pleased to see him, that I thought I should never have done
wringing his hand. A
I said to him: My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How
remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe
of what passes for Amontillado,5 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!
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Amontillado!
And I must satisfy them.
Amontillado!
As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi.6 If anyone
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.
Come, let us go.
Whither?
To your vaults.
My friend, no; I will not impose upon your good nature.
I perceive you have an engagement. Luchesi
I have no engagement;come.
My friend, no. It is not the engagement, but the severe cold
with which I perceive you are afflicted. The vaults are insufferably
damp. They are encrusted with niter.7 B
Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is merely nothing.
Amontillado! You have been imposed upon. And as for Luchesi,
he cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado.
Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm.
Putting on a mask of black silk, and drawing a roquelaure 8 closely
about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.9
There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to
make merry in honor of the time. I had told them that I should
not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders
not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well
knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as
soon as my back was turned.
I took from their sconces two flambeaux,10 and giving one
to Fortunato, bowed him through several suites of rooms to
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winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed.

We came at length to the foot of the descent and stood together
on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.
The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap
jingled as he strode.
The pipe? said he.
It is farther on, said I; but observe the white web-work
which gleams from these cavern walls.
He turned toward me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy
orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication.11
Niter? he asked, at length.
Niter, I replied. How long have you had that cough?
Ugh! ugh! ugh!ugh! ugh! ugh!ugh! ugh! ugh!ugh!
ugh! ugh!ugh! ugh! ugh!

My poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes.

It is nothing, he said, at last.
Come, I said, with decision, we will go back; your health is
precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy,
as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter.
We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible.
Besides, there is Luchesi
Enough, he said; the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill
me. I shall not die of a cough.
Truetrue, I replied; and, indeed, I had no intention of
alarming you unnecessarily; but you should use all proper caution.
A draft of this Medoc12 will defend us from the damps.
Here I knocked off the neck of a bottle that I drew from a long
row of its fellows that lay upon the mold. C
Drink, I said, presenting him the wine.
He raised it to his lips with a leer. He paused and nodded to
me familiarly, while his bells jingled.
I drink, he said, to the buried that repose around us.

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And I to your long life.

He again took my arm, and we proceeded.
These vaults, he said, are extensive.
The Montresors, I replied, were a great and numerous
family.
I forget your arms.
A huge human foot dor,13 in a field azure; the foot crushes
a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.
And the motto?
Nemo me impune lacessit. 14
Good! he said.
The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own
fancy grew warm with the Medoc. We had passed through walls
of piled bones, with casks and puncheons15 intermingling, into the
inmost recesses of the catacombs. I paused again, and this time
I made bold to seize Fortunato by an arm above the elbow.
The niter! I said; see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon
the vaults. We are below the rivers bed. The drops of moisture
trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late.
Your cough D
It is nothing, he said; let us go on. But first, another draft
of the Medoc.
I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grve.16 He
emptied it at a breath. His eyes flashed with a fierce light.
He laughed and threw the bottle upward with a gesticulation
I did not understand.
I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movementa
grotesque one.
You do not comprehend? he said.
Not I, I replied.
Then you are not of the brotherhood.

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How?
You are not of the masons.17
Yes, yes, I said; yes, yes.
You? Impossible! A mason?
A mason, I replied.
A sign, he said.
It is this, I answered, producing a trowel18 from beneath
the folds of my roquelaure.

You jest, he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. But let us

proceed to the Amontillado.
Be it so, I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak, and
again offering him my arm. He leaned upon it heavily. We
continued our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed
through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and
descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness
of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.
At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another
less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains,
piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs
of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented
in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown
down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one
point a mound of some size. Within the wall thus exposed by
the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior recess,
in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven.
It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within
itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the
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endeavored to pry into the depth 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.
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. In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each
other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a
short chain, from the other a padlock. Throwing the links about
his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it. He
was too much astounded to resist. Withdrawing the key I stepped
back from the recess. F
Pass your hand, I said, over the wall; you cannot help feeling
the niter. Indeed it is very damp. Once more let me implore you
to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first
render you all the little attentions in my power.
The Amontillado! ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered
from his astonishment.
True, I replied; the Amontillado.
As I said these words I busied myself among the pile of bones
of which I have before spoken. Throwing them aside, I soon
uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar. With these
materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall
up the entrance of the niche.
I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when
I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great
measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low
moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a
drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid
the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard
the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several

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satisfaction, I ceased my labors and sat down upon the bones.
When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and
finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh
tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again
paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a
few feeble rays upon the figure within. G
A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from
the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently
back. For a brief moment I hesitatedI trembled. Unsheathing
my rapier,19 I began to grope with it about the recess; but the
thought of an instant reassured me. I placed my hand upon the
solid fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied. I reapproached the
wall. I replied to the yells of him who clamored. I re-echoed
I aidedI surpassed them in volume and in strength. I did this,
and the clamorer grew still. H
It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close.
I had completed the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth tier. I had
finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained
but a single stone to be fitted and plastered in. I struggled with its
weight; I placed it partially in its destined position. But now there
came from out the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon
my head. 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!a very good joke indeedan excellent
jest. We will have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzohe!
he! he! over our winehe! he! he!
The Amontillado! I said.
He! he! he!he! he! he!yes, the Amontillado. But is it not
getting late? Will not they be awaiting us at the palazzo, the Lady
Fortunato and the rest? Let us be gone.
Yes, I said, let us be gone.
For the love of God, Montresor!
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Fortunato!
No answer. I called again,
Fortunato!
No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining
aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return
only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sickon account of
the dampness of the catacombs. I hastened to make an end of
my labor. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it
up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of
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