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"Gentlemen," I said at last when they started up the stairs "I'm really happy to have calmed your suspicions. I wish you all good health and a little more courtesy. Let it be said, this gentlemen, this is a singularly well built house. Indeed it can be said that this is an admirably built house. These walls - are you leaving, gentlemen? - These walls are really solid ... »and here with the frenzy of a stunt, I beat hard with a stick that I held in my hand right on the point of the wall behind which was the corpse of the bride of my heart. May God protect me and free me from the fangs of the archdemonio! The vibration of the blows had just gone off when a voice answered me from the bottom of the grave! A lament, at first veiled and interrupted like a child's hiccup, which soon became a prolonged cry, loud and continuous, absolutely abnormal and inhuman; a howling, a moan, half of fear and half of triumph as it could only come from hell, from the throat of the damned in their agony6 and from demons rejoicing in damnation, in a time. To talk about my thoughts is madness. Feeling myself missing trabingis up to the opposite wall. For a moment the group on the ladder remained motionless, stunned by terror. The next moment a dozen strong arms fell against the wall, which fell one piece. The corpse, already in advanced decomposition, gross of clotted blood, stood before the eyes of the spectators. Above the head, with the wide-open red throat and the single blazing eye, lay the disgusting beast whose evil limbs had driven me to murder and whose revealing voice gave me to the executioner. I had walled up the monster in the grave. NOTES TO THE TEXT 1) succinctly: briefly. 2) sagacity: intelligent and insightful readiness to intuit and evaluate a situation or to draw a conclusion. 3) Interpower: the inability to moderate one's instincts. 4) invaded: escaped. 5) torture: serious corporal punishment, physical or moral suffering, intense and tormenting. 6) agony: anxiety, anxiety, uncertainty.