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prose (8)in #twinkleton • 10 days ago
[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 • 19 days ago
[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 • 21 days ago
[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 • last month
[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 • last month
[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 • last month
[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 • 3 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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