John Jasper's Secret : Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following And Explaining "the Mystery of Edwin Drood"
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She is literally powerless, firmly as the heart may rebel against the tyranny. She is as much alone with this man, here on the pavement of one of the most frequented of London streets, as she could be in a desert. For though persons are passing and repassing, some of them almost touching her skirt as they go by, she has no more power to call for aid than if she possessed no physical tongue. " Turn into this archway with me for a few moments," he says. " There is a square beyond, where we can co...nverse without attracting too much attention." "No, I cannot — I will not !" she speaks mechanically. " You both can and will, Rosa !" he replies. " Come — I go on; you follow." She endeavours, with what power she has, not to obey him. She recognizes every reason why she should not, and none why she should ; and yet she feels that her limbs are turning in the direction he points — that she is going through the dusky archway into that square of which she knows nothing ! She summons strength to pro- pound one condition, and he accedes to it, mercifully.
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