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'Whose? The curtness of the counter-question, and the cool, slow manner in which, as he put it, Mr. Grewgious moved his eyes from the fire to his companion's face, might at any other time have been exasperating. In his depression and exhaustion, Jasper merely opened his eyes to say: 'The suspected young man's. 'Do you suspect him? asked Mr. Grewgious. 'I don't know what to think.
You knew its contents before, but you received it from me as a matter of business. I should have sent it to Mr. Jasper, but for Miss Rosa's wishing it to come straight to you, in preference. You received it? 'Quite safely, sir. 'You should have acknowledged its receipt, said Mr. Grewgious; 'business being business all the world over. However, you did not.
Jasper's door being closed, and presenting on a slip of paper the word 'Cathedral, the fact of its being service-time was borne into the mind of Mr. Grewgious. So he descended the stair again, and, crossing the Close, paused at the great western folding-door of the Cathedral, which stood open on the fine and bright, though short-lived, afternoon, for the airing of the place. 'Dear me, said Mr.
Coals is either BY the fire, or PER the scuttle. She emphasised the prepositions as marking a subtle but immense difference. 'Dogs is not viewed with favour. Besides litter, they gets stole, and sharing suspicions is apt to creep in, and unpleasantness takes place. By this time Mr. Grewgious had his agreement-lines, and his earnest-money, ready.
Supposing him to have disappeared of his own act, is not his disappearance more accountable and less cruel? The fact of his having just parted from your ward, is in itself a sort of reason for his going away. It does not make his mysterious departure the less cruel to me, it is true; but it relieves it of cruelty to her. Mr. Grewgious could not but assent to this.
Jasper touched himself on the breast, and said, somewhat indistinctly: 'You mean me. Mr. Grewgious touched himself on the breast, and said: 'I mean us. Therefore, let them have their little discussions and councils together, when Mr. Edwin Drood comes back here at Christmas; and then you and I will step in, and put the final touches to the business.
'And now, my dear, said Mr. Grewgious, 'what is to be done next? To put the same thought in another form; what is to be done with you? Rosa could only look apologetically sensible of being very much in her own way and in everybody else's.
Rosa shook her head, with an almost plaintive air of hesitation in want of help. 'Is there any instruction that I can take from you with reference to your affairs? 'I I should like to settle them with Eddy first, if you please, said Rosa, plaiting the crease in her dress. 'Surely, surely, returned Mr. Grewgious. 'You two should be of one mind in all things.
'Hiram Grewgious, Esquire, Staple Inn, London. This was all Rosa knew of her destination; but it was enough to send her rattling away again in a cab, through deserts of gritty streets, where many people crowded at the corner of courts and byways to get some air, and where many other people walked with a miserably monotonous noise of shuffling of feet on hot paving-stones, and where all the people and all their surroundings were so gritty and so shabby!
Jasper is thus compelled to revisit the vault, at night, and there, in the light of his lantern, he sees the long-lost Edwin, with his hand in the breast of his great coat. Horrified by this unexpected appearance, Jasper turns to fly. But he is confronted by Neville Landless, Crisparkle, Tartar, and perhaps by Mr. Grewgious, who are all on the watch.
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