[The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystery of Edwin Drood CHAPTER XIX--SHADOW ON THE SUN-DIAL 15/16
I shall wait for some encouragement and hope.
I shall not strike too soon.
Give me a sign that you attend to me.' She slightly and constrainedly moves her hand. 'Not a word of this to any one, or it will bring down the blow, as certainly as night follows day.
Another sign that you attend to me.' She moves her hand once more. 'I love you, love you, love you! If you were to cast me off now--but you will not--you would never be rid of me.
No one should come between us. I would pursue you to the death.' The handmaid coming out to open the gate for him, he quietly pulls off his hat as a parting salute, and goes away with no greater show of agitation than is visible in the effigy of Mr.Sapsea's father opposite. Rosa faints in going up-stairs, and is carefully carried to her room and laid down on her bed.
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