A Tale of Two CitiesJames Nisbet & Company, Limited, 1902 - 324 pages "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens' classic novel tells the story of two Englishmen--degenerate lawyer Sydney Carton and aristocrat Charles Darnay--who fall in love with the same woman in the midst of the French Revolution's blood and terror. Originally published as 31 weekly instalments,A Tale of Two Cities has been adapted several times for film, serves as a rite of passage for many students, and is one of the most famous novels ever published. This is a free digital copy of a book that has been carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. To make this print edition available as an ebook, we have extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and submitted it to a review process to ensure its accuracy and legibility across different screen sizes and devices. Google is proud to partner with libraries to make this book available to readers everywhere. |
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Page 65
... that Tellson's , in a stately way , tolerated the odd - job man . The house had always tolerated some person in that capacity , and time and tide had drifted this person to the post . His surname was Cruncher 5 FIVE YEARS LATER 65.
... that Tellson's , in a stately way , tolerated the odd - job man . The house had always tolerated some person in that capacity , and time and tide had drifted this person to the post . His surname was Cruncher 5 FIVE YEARS LATER 65.
Page 66
... Cruncher's private lodging in Hanging - Sword - Alley , Whitefriars : the time , half - past seven of the clock on a windy March morning , Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty . ( Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of Our ...
... Cruncher's private lodging in Hanging - Sword - Alley , Whitefriars : the time , half - past seven of the clock on a windy March morning , Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty . ( Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of Our ...
Page 67
... Cruncher's domestic economy , that , whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots , he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay . 66 What , " said Mr. Cruncher , varying his apostrophe after ...
... Cruncher's domestic economy , that , whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots , he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay . 66 What , " said Mr. Cruncher , varying his apostrophe after ...
Page 68
... Cruncher , who all this time had been putting on his clothes , " if I ain't , what with piety and one blowed thing and another , been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with ! Young ...
... Cruncher , who all this time had been putting on his clothes , " if I ain't , what with piety and one blowed thing and another , been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with ! Young ...
Page 69
... Cruncher's temper was not at all improved when he came to his breakfast . He resented Mrs. Cruncher's saying grace with particular animosity . 66 Now , Aggerawayter ! What are you up to ? At it agin ? " His wife explained that she had ...
... Cruncher's temper was not at all improved when he came to his breakfast . He resented Mrs. Cruncher's saying grace with particular animosity . 66 Now , Aggerawayter ! What are you up to ? At it agin ? " His wife explained that she had ...
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Page 453 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away.
Page 13 - A WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Page 63 - TELLSON'S Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the house were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness. They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable,...