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prose (8)in #rosa • 5 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #12/166
Is she stupid in everything?”“No. In nothing.”After a pause, in which the whimsically wicked face has not been unobservant of him, Rosa says:“And this most sensible of creatures…
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prose (8)in #rosa • 15 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #11/166
“That is to say, is it Pussy, that we are both resigned?”She nods her head again, and after a short silence, quaintly bursts out with: “You know we must be married, and married…
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prose (8)in #isso • 19 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #10/166
It isso ridiculous!” says the apparition, stopping and shrinking. “Don’t, Eddy!”“Don’t what, Rosa?”“Don’t come any nearer, please. It isso absurd.”“What is absurd, Rosa?”“The…
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prose (8)in #twinkleton • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #9/166
The lady who undertakes the poetical department of the establishment at so much (or so little) a quarter, has no pieces in her list of recitals bearing on such unprofitable…
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prose (8)in #cloisterham • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #8/166
CHAPTER IIITHENUNS’ HOUSEFOR SUFFICIENT REASONSwhich this narrative will itself unfold as it advances, a fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town. Let it…
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prose (8)in #deeply • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #7/166
Must I take to carving them out of my heart?”“I thought you had so exactly found your niche in life, Jack,” Edwin Drood returns, astonished, bending forward in his chair to lay a…
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prose (8)in #jasper • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #6/166
Sharply, on the part of Edwin Drood.Silence on both sides.“Have you lost your tongue, Jack?”“Have you found yours, Ned?”“No, but really;—isn’t it, you know, after all?”Mr. Jasper…
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prose (8)in #jasper • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #5/166
Jasper opens a door at the upper end of the room, and discloses a small inner room pleasantly lighted and prepared, wherein a comely dame is in the act of setting dishes on…
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prose (8)in #dean • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #4/166
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them. I find I am not disagreeably reminded of my dinner, by…
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prose (8)in #rook • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #3/166
CHAPTER IIA DEAN, AND ACHAPTERALSOWHOSOEVER HAS OBSERVEDthat sedate and clerical bird, the rook, may perhaps have noticed that when he wings his way homeward towards nightfall…
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prose (8)in #opium • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #2/166
Of an increase of hideous customers, and this horrible bedstead set upright again, and this horrible court swept clean? What can she rise to, under any quantity of opium, higher…
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prose (8)in #ancientenglishcathedral • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #1/166
CHAPTER ITHEDAWNAN ANCIENTENGLISHCathedral Town? How can the ancient English Cathedral town be here! The well-known massive grey square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that…
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