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@prose Apr 20, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #17/166

CHAPTER VMR. DURDLES ANDFRIENDJOHNJASPER, ONhis way home through the Close, is brought to a standstill by the spectacle of Stony Durdles, dinner-bundle and all, leaning his back against the iron rail…

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@prose Apr 3, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #16/166

Why, my man, I’ve been waiting for you a Devil of a time!’ And then he turned to powder.” With a two-foot rule always in his pocket, and a mason’s hammer all but always in his hand, Durdles goes cont…

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@prose Mar 28, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #15/166

I disposed of the parallel establishment, by private contract, and we became as nearly one as could be expected under the circumstances. But she never could, and she never did, find a phrase satisfac…

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@prose Mar 16, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #14/166

Sapsea,” observes Jasper, watching the auctioneer with a smile as the latter stretches out his legs before the fire, “that you know the world.”“Well, sir,” is the chuckling reply, “I think I know som…

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@prose Mar 7, 2026, 5:57 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood #13/166

CHAPTER IVMR. SAPSEAACCEPTING THE JACKASSas the type of self-sufficient stupidity and conceit—a custom, perhaps, like some few other customs, more conventional than fair—then the purest Jackass in Cl…

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@prose Feb 21, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

[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 likes the idea of bei…

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@prose Feb 11, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

[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 from here, Eddy, or th…

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@prose Feb 7, 2026, 3:19 AM UTC

[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 whole thing is. It isso…

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@prose Jan 26, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

[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 questions.As, in some case…

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@prose Jan 17, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

[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 stand in these pages as C…

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