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Read the excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death" Based on the details in the excerpt, what is the primary by Edgar Allan Poe. purpose of this passage? But these other apartments were densely crowded, and O to amuse in them beat feverishly the heart of life. And the revel O to inform went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock. And then the music O to thrill ceased, as I have told; and the evolutions of the waltzers O to warn were quieted; and there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before. But now there were twelve strokes to be sounded by the bell of the clock; and thus it happened, perhaps, that more of thought crept, with more of time, into the meditations of the thoughtful among those who reveled. And thus, too, it happened, perhaps, that before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before. And the rumor of this new presence having enread itself