the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough
True--true
"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.
You do not comprehend?
Not I
"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."
Proceed, herein is the Amontillado. as for Luchesi--
He is an ignoramus
"He turned toward me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication."
"The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the the Medoc. We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs."
"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains."
"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."