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fragmentz (9)in #grewgious • 8 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #12/131
Not I, I am sure. Why, you are like a Jack-in-the-box (I had one given me once, when I was a little lad, and it was the terror of my childhood), springing out like mad, when one…
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fragmentz (9)in #grewgious • 22 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #11/131
Grewgious, feeling strangely drawn towards, and at the same time strangely repelled by this individual with the blue spectacles, “just as if,” he says to himself, “I were a hard…
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fragmentz (9)in #grewgious • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #10/131
An old young man, or a young old man? — Mr. Grewgious’ short-sighted eyes cannot make out which. A man of about middle height; thin and scared looking; with black beard and…
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fragmentz (9)in #clerk • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #9/131
CHAPTER IIMR. GREWGIOUS’S NEW CLERKMR. GREWGIOUS, in his solitary chambers in Staple Inn, sipping a cup of coffee after a late dinner, and sipping it in no very enviable frame of…
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fragmentz (9)in #choir • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #8/131
You have waited upon me so often, and now that the place which has known me so well will soon know me no more, I cannot take my last meal alone. You have a few minutes to spare…
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fragmentz (9)in #deputy • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #7/131
And, even though the last interview he had had with her had shown him his error in this respect, had revealed to him, so distinctly that miscomprehension was impossible, her…
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fragmentz (9)in #mumblin • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #6/131
I know you found out at last, and it don’t matter to you why I want to know.”“She got so tottery on her pins,” pursued Winks, with immovable gravity, “that at last she broke down…
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fragmentz (9)in #datchery • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #5/131
All had felt sure that he would not and could not remain. He had taken the loss of his nephew too much to heart, poor fellow! he was quite an altered man since then. Always still…
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fragmentz (9)in #darkly • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #4/131
I often preach them patience and endurance, but I do not believe, put to the proof, I myself should practise the half of it. To think of their being driven away, outcasts from…
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fragmentz (9)in #cloisterham • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #3/131
CHAPTER ITWO BREAKFASTS IN CLOISTERHAMSERVICE is over — the early morning service in the old Cathedral of the ancient city of Cloisterham, and the few who have composed the small…
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fragmentz (9)in #jasper • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #2/131
One night before Yuletide, Jasper gets Durdles to show him over the Cathedral, from the crypt to the top of the tower, by lantern light, for the satisfaction of his…
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fragmentz (9)in #dickens • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Great Mystery Solved by Gillan Vase #1/131
EDITOR’S NOTETHE fate of Edwin Drood, the last of Charles Dickens’ creations, has exercised the minds of not a few literary men of eminence. The best of them could but guess; and…
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