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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER X--SMOOTHING THE WAY
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The demoniacal passion of this Neville Landless, his strength in his fury, and his savage rage for the destruction of its object, appal me.

So profound is the impression, that twice since I have gone into my dear boy's room, to assure myself of his sleeping safely, and not lying dead in his blood." 'Here is another entry next morning: '"Ned up and away.

Light-hearted and unsuspicious as ever.

He laughed when I cautioned him, and said he was as good a man as Neville Landless any day.

I told him that might be, but he was not as bad a man.


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