Read the excerpt from the climax of "The Tell-Tale Heart.""Villains!” I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! here, here!—It is the beating of his hideous heart!”

The narrator tries to hide the murder, but his guilt and growing panic make him confess. The excerpt shows that evil cannot stay hidden for long, which matches choice D. It is not mainly about pride or bad events happening in groups.

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