Tell Tale Heart Regrets

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I feel that the butler in The tell Tale Heart was feeling many regrets for killing his master. Because in the story, he was talking to himself when the police men showed up, saying that they were mocking him, and that they knew. But lets go before that murder, because he said that he planned to kill him for 7 days straigh. Which from all the How to Get Away With Murder episodes i watched, that will be classified as 1st degree murder. The butler had problems with that man, because he always heard his heart beat, and he couldent stand looking at his

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