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Select the correct text in the passage.

Which sentence from this excerpt indicates that Fortunato is still alive?
The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe (excerpt)
But to these words I hearkened in vain for a reply. I grew impatient. I called aloud -
"Fortunatol"
No answer. I called again -
"Fortunato!"
No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart
grew sick, it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position;
I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace
requiescati
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Answer 1

There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells.

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