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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

CHAPTER VIII--DAGGERS DRAWN
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Now, what is amiss?
But why ask! Let there be nothing amiss, and the question is superfluous.

We are all three on a good understanding, are we not ?' After a silent struggle between the two young men who shall speak last, Edwin Drood strikes in with: 'So far as I am concerned, Jack, there is no anger in me.' 'Nor in me,' says Neville Landless, though not so freely; or perhaps so carelessly.

'But if Mr.Drood knew all that lies behind me, far away from here, he might know better how it is that sharp-edged words have sharp edges to wound me.' 'Perhaps,' says Jasper, in a soothing manner, 'we had better not qualify our good understanding.

We had better not say anything having the appearance of a remonstrance or condition; it might not seem generous.
Frankly and freely, you see there is no anger in Ned.

Frankly and freely, there is no anger in you, Mr.Neville ?' 'None at all, Mr.Jasper.' Still, not quite so frankly or so freely; or, be it said once again, not quite so carelessly perhaps.
'All over then! Now, my bachelor gatehouse is a few yards from here, and the heater is on the fire, and the wine and glasses are on the table, and it is not a stone's throw from Minor Canon Corner.


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