1. Read this passage from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Then, answer the following question(s).
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 I 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. 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 him
who has done the wrong.
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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.