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What part of this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" uses irony?
"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchresi–"

"Enough," he said; "the cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough."
"True–true," I replied; "and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily–but you should use all proper caution . . ."

"True–true," I replied; "and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily–but you should use all proper caution . . ."

The part of the passage that uses irony is "the cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." This is ironic because the reader knows that the narrator actually plans to kill Fortunato, and his dismissive attitude towards the cough is a clever way of foreshadowing his sinister intentions.

The correct text in the passage that uses irony is: "True–true," I replied; "and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily–but you should use all proper caution . . ."