:) select the correct text in the passage. which quotation from "the tell-tale heart" by edgar allan poe brings out the theme of time? and this i did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight. i made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. all in vain; because death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. it is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. and it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel – although he neither saw nor heard – to feel the presence of my head within the room.