24. Quay- Wharf: Platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside which ships can load and unload.
24 buoy- floating marker in the water
25 spasmodically: in spasm
24 great coat - over coat
26 paupers field-a cemetery where people can be buried who are unidentified or have no money
26 inquest: a hearing concerning a death
26 prow: the front part of a ship
Ed and Dupin head back to the tenement
Dupin wants to go to the docks
Edmund seems nervous: says Aunty and Sis must be back
Dupin speaks of “what we want to happen and what actually happened”
Dupin makes Edmund go to the docks
See 2 men on the dock with a lantern.
Character(focus on )
One holding the lantern (Asa Throck)
Powerful build
Huge hands
Broad flat round face
Disfiguring scar left cheek
Bald head fringe of hair that touched his collar
Jacket with a brass star: emblem of the Providence night watch
Mr. Fortnoy
Short ferret faced white haired older man wiry body
Coiled upon himself in a stoop
Shifty eyes
Dead woman on the dock fair hair, eyes open look of shock
Ivory dress, thin body ghastly pretty looked like Edmund
Fortnoy just pulled her out…after finishing his watch
Edmund thinks the body is Aunty with a different dress
STUDY QUESTIONS
1. Go to the docks
2. to the docks
3. They are at home
4. a dead woman
5. She looks like Edmund
6. to identify it
7. leaving his aunty
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