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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER XXIII--THE DAWN AGAIN
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(Goods taken in execution.) He was a widower in a white under-waistcoat, and slight shoes with bows, and had two daughters not ill-looking.

Indeed the reverse.

Both daughters taught dancing in scholastic establishments for Young Ladies--had done so at Mrs.Sapsea's; nay, Twinkleton's--and both, in giving lessons, presented the unwomanly spectacle of having little fiddles tucked under their chins.

In spite of which, the younger one might, if I am correctly informed--I will raise the veil so far as to say I KNOW she might--have soared for life from this degrading taint, but for having the class of mind allotted to what I call the common herd, and being so incredibly devoid of veneration as to become painfully ludicrous.
When I sold off Kimber without reserve, Peartree (as poor as he can hold together) had several prime household lots knocked down to him.

I am not to be blinded; and of course it was as plain to me what he was going to do with them, as it was that he was a brown hulking sort of revolutionary subject who had been in India with the soldiers, and ought (for the sake of society) to have his neck broke.


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