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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER XXIII--THE DAWN AGAIN
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The travellers give me the name on account of my getting no settled sleep and being knocked up all night; whereby I gets one eye roused open afore I've shut the other.

That's what Winks means.
Deputy's the nighest name to indict me by: but yer wouldn't catch me pleading to that, neither.' 'Deputy be it always, then.

We two are good friends; eh, Deputy ?' 'Jolly good.' 'I forgave you the debt you owed me when we first became acquainted, and many of my sixpences have come your way since; eh, Deputy ?' 'Ah! And what's more, yer ain't no friend o' Jarsper's.

What did he go a-histing me off my legs for ?' 'What indeed! But never mind him now.

A shilling of mine is going your way to-night, Deputy.


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