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I would assume he was quite afraid. In the story, when he hears the narrator's finger slip on the lantern, he bolts up in bed, probably in fear. The fact that he stayed sitting up for so long after means he was probably too scared to return to sleep. When the narrator does leap into the room, the old man does get out a scream before he is pulled out of bed and killed.

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