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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER II--A DEAN, AND A CHAPTER ALSO
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Why the--Devil, I was going to say, if it had been respectful to their memory--couldn't they leave us alone ?' 'Tut, tut, dear boy,' Mr.Jasper remonstrates, in a tone of gentle deprecation.
'Tut, tut?
Yes, Jack, it's all very well for _you_.

_You_ can take it easily.

_Your_ life is not laid down to scale, and lined and dotted out for you, like a surveyor's plan.

_You_ have no uncomfortable suspicion that you are forced upon anybody, nor has anybody an uncomfortable suspicion that she is forced upon you, or that you are forced upon her.
_You_ can choose for yourself.

Life, for _you_, is a plum with the natural bloom on; it hasn't been over-carefully wiped off for _you_--' 'Don't stop, dear fellow.


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