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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER XIV--WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?
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With the date of their wedding-day engraved inside, several gentlemen have preferred it to any other kind of memento.
The rings are as coldly viewed as the bracelet.

Edwin tells the tempter that he wears no jewellery but his watch and chain, which were his father's; and his shirt-pin.
'That I was aware of,' is the jeweller's reply, 'for Mr.Jasper dropped in for a watch-glass the other day, and, in fact, I showed these articles to him, remarking that if he _should_ wish to make a present to a gentleman relative, on any particular occasion--But he said with a smile that he had an inventory in his mind of all the jewellery his gentleman relative ever wore; namely, his watch and chain, and his shirt-pin.' Still (the jeweller considers) that might not apply to all times, though applying to the present time.

'Twenty minutes past two, Mr.Drood, I set your watch at.

Let me recommend you not to let it run down, sir.' Edwin takes his watch, puts it on, and goes out, thinking: 'Dear old Jack! If I were to make an extra crease in my neckcloth, he would think it worth noticing!' He strolls about and about, to pass the time until the dinner-hour.

It somehow happens that Cloisterham seems reproachful to him to-day; has fault to find with him, as if he had not used it well; but is far more pensive with him than angry.


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