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 38
... Madame Defarge , his wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in . Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age , with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady ...
... Madame Defarge , his wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in . Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age , with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady ...
Page 39
... Defarge . " Is all the spilt wine swallowed ? " Every drop , Jacques , " answered Monsieur Defarge . When this interchange of Christian name was effected , Madame Defarge , picking her teeth with her toothpick , coughed another grain of ...
... Defarge . " Is all the spilt wine swallowed ? " Every drop , Jacques , " answered Monsieur Defarge . When this interchange of Christian name was effected , Madame Defarge , picking her teeth with her toothpick , coughed another grain of ...
Page 40
... Madame Defarge put her toothpick by , kept her eyebrows up , and slightly rustled in her seat . " Hold then ! true ! " muttered her husband . Gen- tleman — my wife ! " The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge with ...
... Madame Defarge put her toothpick by , kept her eyebrows up , and slightly rustled in her seat . " Hold then ! true ! " muttered her husband . Gen- tleman — my wife ! " The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge with ...
Page 57
... Defarge going first with the lamp , Mr. Lorry closing the little procession . They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped , and stared at the roof ... Madame Defarge — who leaned against the THE SHOEMAKER 57.
... Defarge going first with the lamp , Mr. Lorry closing the little procession . They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped , and stared at the roof ... Madame Defarge — who leaned against the THE SHOEMAKER 57.
Page 58
... Madame Defarge im- mediately called to her husband that she would get them , and went , knitting , out of the lamplight , through the court - yard . She quickly brought them down and handed them in ; and immediately afterwards leaned ...
... Madame Defarge im- mediately called to her husband that she would get them , and went , knitting , out of the lamplight , through the court - yard . She quickly brought them down and handed them in ; and immediately afterwards leaned ...
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Page 454 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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,...