She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. “Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. Dust Heaps Dust develops. Rather than focusing on the things that have always driven them apart, they’re able to relate to one another and—in that way—accept each other. She would joyfully die with him, or better than that, die for him. After all of their disagreements, Justyce and Jared come together in this moment, united by their loss of a mutual friend. The famed Dust Heaps in Our Mutual Friend are simply large mountains of … well, dust. As mentioned earlier, John Jasper lead a double life. Our Mutual Friend Overview. For your reference, we provided these Our Mutual Friend quotes with page numbers using the following version of the book: Our Mutual Friend , Cosimo, Inc., 2009 (444 pages) . One cannot fully judge the purpose of Dickens’ incorporation of dust heaps in his novel without background information on them. Our Mutual Friend Quotes FreeBookNotes found 5 important quotes from 5 key chapters of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. ~Over the rainbow and through the rabbit hole~ For folks who identify and transition, to some degree, into the amorphous cloud of non-binary genders. Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt. I welcomed my friend, therefore, in the most cordial manner, and we walked towards my college. The question being what is a dust heap? Themes of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Some people speculate that Edwin Drood, like John Harmon in Our Mutual Friend, wasn’t really dead. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens’ last and darkly compelling novel centers on the presumed drowning of John Harmon in the Thames River on his way home to reclaim his inheritance of his father’s estate contingent on his marriage to Bella Wilfer. The fact that Edwin’s body was never found adds weight to this theory. In many ways, their sadness is something that transcends their differences.