while every ploughman in its outlying fields renders to once puissant Lord Treasurers, Archbishops, Bishops, and such-like, the attention which the Ogre in the story-book desired to render to his unbidden visitor, and grinds their bones to make his bread.
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For sufficient reasons, which this narrative will itself unfold as it advances, a fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town. Let it stand in these pages as Cloisterham. It was once possibly known to the Druids by another name, and certainly to the Romans by another, and to the Saxons by another, and to the Normans by another; and a name more or less in the course of many centuries can be of little moment to its dusty chronicles.
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#64 Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood, No VI. Chapman & Hall, London, September 1870, No VI, partwork, 1st edition. #CharlesDickens #EdwinDrood #ChapmanAndHall #Partworks #BookOfTheDay