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The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Classics, Literary

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Classics, Literary

ISBN: 9780809594597
  • Author: Dickens, Charles
  • Condition: LikeNew
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Through the ragged window-curtain, the light of early day steals in from a miserable court. He lies, dressed, across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weight upon it. Lying, also dressed and also across the bed, not longwise, are a Chinaman, a Lascar, and a haggard woman. The two first are in a sleep or stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it. And as she blows, and shading it with her lean hand, concentrates its red spark of light, it serves in the dim morning as a lamp to show him what he sees of her. "Another?" says this woman, in a querulous, rattling whisper. "Have another?"

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