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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER X--SMOOTHING THE WAY
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Miss Helena, you and your brother are twin children.

You came into this world with the same dispositions, and you passed your younger days together surrounded by the same adverse circumstances.

What you have overcome in yourself, can you not overcome in him?
You see the rock that lies in his course.

Who but you can keep him clear of it ?' 'Who but you, sir ?' replied Helena.

'What is my influence, or my weak wisdom, compared with yours!' 'You have the wisdom of Love,' returned the Minor Canon, 'and it was the highest wisdom ever known upon this earth, remember.


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