Hiroshima University's English Podcast

Download MP3 9月と10月の第１週は「ドラマで英語を学ぼう」をお届けしています。取り上げているのはアメリカの小説家・詩人、Edgar Allan Poe（1809-1849）の古典的名作「告げ口心臓」（"The Tell-Tale Heart", 1843）です。今回は、その後半をお届けします。 老人を殺してしまった主人公。その後、心の中で鳴り響き続ける音が彼の心をかき乱します。いったいその音とは…？「告げ口心臓」という奇妙なタイトルの意味もあわせて考えながら、緊迫の結末をお楽しみください！ （中級〜上級）********** Script（本文の語句の解説をこのページの最後に付けています） THE TELL-TALE HEART (Part 2) by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. 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. But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed. I held the lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I could maintain the ray upon the eve. Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must