The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Чарльз Диккенс. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
CHAPTER I – THE DAWN
CHAPTER II – A DEAN, AND A CHAPTER ALSO
CHAPTER III – THE NUNS’ HOUSE
CHAPTER IV – MR. SAPSEA
CHAPTER V – MR. DURDLES AND FRIEND
CHAPTER VI – PHILANTHROPY IN MINOR CANON CORNER
CHAPTER VII – MORE CONFIDENCES THAN ONE
CHAPTER VIII – DAGGERS DRAWN
CHAPTER IX – BIRDS IN THE BUSH
CHAPTER X – SMOOTHING THE WAY
CHAPTER XI – A PICTURE AND A RING
CHAPTER XII – A NIGHT WITH DURDLES
CHAPTER XIII – BOTH AT THEIR BEST
CHAPTER XIV – WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?
CHAPTER XV – IMPEACHED
CHAPTER XVI – DEVOTED
CHAPTER XVII – PHILANTHROPY, PROFESSIONAL AND UNPROFESSIONAL
CHAPTER XVIII – A SETTLER IN CLOISTERHAM
CHAPTER XIX – SHADOW ON THE SUN-DIAL
CHAPTER XX – A FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXI – A RECOGNITION
CHAPTER XXII – A GRITTY STATE OF THINGS COMES ON
CHAPTER XXIII – THE DAWN AGAIN
APPENDIX: FRAGMENT OF “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD”
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Whosoever has observed that sedate and clerical bird, the rook, may perhaps have noticed that when he wings his way homeward towards nightfall, in a sedate and clerical company, two rooks will suddenly detach themselves from the rest, will retrace their flight for some distance, and will there poise and linger; conveying to mere men the fancy that it is of some occult importance to the body politic, that this artful couple should pretend to have renounced connection with it.
Similarly, service being over in the old Cathedral with the square tower, and the choir scuffling out again, and divers venerable persons of rook-like aspect dispersing, two of these latter retrace their steps, and walk together in the echoing Close.
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‘If she will! Egad, that’s it. But if she won’t?’
Crack! – on Mr. Jasper’s part.
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