_Every day and hour of her life since Edwin Drood’s disappearance_, _she has faced malignity and folly—for you—as only a brave nature well directed can_. _So it will be with her to the end_. * * * * * _which knows no shrinking_, _and can get no mastery over her_.’ * * * * * _as she is a truly brave woman_,’ * * * * * _As Mr. Grewgious had to turn his eye up considerably before he could see the chambers_, _the phrase was to be taken figuratively and not literally_. * * * * * ‘_A watch_?’ _repeated Mr. Grewgious musingly_. * * * * * ‘_I entertain a sort of fancy for having him under my eye to-night_, _do you know_?’ * * * * * In Chapter XVIII. * * * * * ‘_indeed_, _I have no doubt that we could suit you that far_, _however particular you might be_. * * * * * _with a general impression on his mind that Mrs. Tope’s was somewhere very near it_, _and that_, _like the children in the game of hot boiled beans and very good butter_, _he was warm in his search when he saw the Tower_, _and cold when he didn’t see it_. _He was getting very cold indeed when_. ‘_Until_’ _is put in here_. * * * * * ‘_Indeed_?’ _said Mr. Datchery_, _with a second look of some interest_. * * * * * _Mr. Datchery_, _taking off his hat to give that shock of white hair of his another shake_, _seemed quite resigned_, _and betook himself whither he had been directed_. * * * * * _Perhaps Mr. Datchery had heard something of what had occurred there last winter_? _Mr. Datchery had as confused a knowledge of the event in question_, _on trying to recall it_, _as he well could have_. _He begged Mrs. Tope’s pardon when she found it incumbent on her to correct him in every detail of his summary of the facts_, _but pleaded that he was merely a single buffer getting through life upon his means as idly as he could_, _and that so many people were so constantly making away with so many other people_, _as to render it difficult for a buffer of an easy temper to preserve the circumstances of the several cases unmixed in his mind_. * * * * * ‘_Might I ask His Honour_,’ _said Mr. Datchery_, ‘_whether that gentleman we have just left is the gentleman of whom I have heard in the neighbourhood as being much afflicted by the loss of a nephew_, _and concentrating his life on avenging the loss_?’ ‘_That is the gentleman_. _John Jasper_, _sir_.’ ‘_Would His Honour allow me to inquire whether there are strong suspicions of any one_?’