[The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystery of Edwin Drood CHAPTER XIII--BOTH AT THEIR BEST 22/23
Don't you think so ?' 'Yes.' 'We know we have done right, Rosa ?' 'Yes.' 'We know we are better so, even now ?' 'And shall be far, far better so by-and-by.' Still there was that lingering tenderness in their hearts towards the old positions they were relinquishing, that they prolonged their parting. When they came among the elm-trees by the Cathedral, where they had last sat together, they stopped as by consent, and Rosa raised her face to his, as she had never raised it in the old days;--for they were old already. 'God bless you, dear! Good-bye!' 'God bless you, dear! Good-bye!' They kissed each other fervently. 'Now, please take me home, Eddy, and let me be by myself.' 'Don't look round, Rosa,' he cautioned her, as he drew her arm through his, and led her away.
'Didn't you see Jack ?' 'No! Where ?' 'Under the trees.
He saw us, as we took leave of each other.
Poor fellow! he little thinks we have parted.
This will be a blow to him, I am much afraid!' She hurried on, without resting, and hurried on until they had passed under the gatehouse into the street; once there, she asked: 'Has he followed us? You can look without seeming to.
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