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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER XVI--DEVOTED
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'And yet, do you know, I don't think,' with a very nice and neat emphasis on those two words: 'I _don't think_ I would state it emphatically.

State it?
Ye-e-es! But emphatically?
No-o-o.

I _think_ not.

In point of fact, Mr.Crisparkle, keeping our hearts warm and our heads cool, we clergy need do nothing emphatically.' So Minor Canon Row knew Neville Landless no more; and he went whithersoever he would, or could, with a blight upon his name and fame.
It was not until then that John Jasper silently resumed his place in the choir.

Haggard and red-eyed, his hopes plainly had deserted him, his sanguine mood was gone, and all his worst misgivings had come back.


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