The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot [21]
another question. They are always kept in stock by starving and venal apothecaries in fiction and the drama, and are a recognized convention of romance.
So ends our unfolding of the Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Footnotes:
(1) Landless is not "Lackland," but a form of de Laundeles, a Lothian name of the twelfth century, merged later in that of Ormistoun.
(2) LIFE OF DICKENS, vol. iii. pp. 425-439.
(3) J. Cuming Walters, p. 102; Proctor, pp. 131-135. Mr. Cuming Walters used an edition of 1896, apparently a reprint of a paper by Proctor, written earlier than his final book of 1887. Hence the error as to Mr. Proctor's last theory.
(4) Mrs. Perugini, the books say, but certainly a daughter.
(5) What would Weissmann say to all this?
(6) So Mr. Cuming Walters quotes Mr. Hughes, who quotes Sir L. Fildes. HE believes that Jasper strangled Edwin with the black-silk scarf, and, no doubt, Jasper was for long of that opinion himself.
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So ends our unfolding of the Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Footnotes:
(1) Landless is not "Lackland," but a form of de Laundeles, a Lothian name of the twelfth century, merged later in that of Ormistoun.
(2) LIFE OF DICKENS, vol. iii. pp. 425-439.
(3) J. Cuming Walters, p. 102; Proctor, pp. 131-135. Mr. Cuming Walters used an edition of 1896, apparently a reprint of a paper by Proctor, written earlier than his final book of 1887. Hence the error as to Mr. Proctor's last theory.
(4) Mrs. Perugini, the books say, but certainly a daughter.
(5) What would Weissmann say to all this?
(6) So Mr. Cuming Walters quotes Mr. Hughes, who quotes Sir L. Fildes. HE believes that Jasper strangled Edwin with the black-silk scarf, and, no doubt, Jasper was for long of that opinion himself.
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