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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... Paris , there were sheltered from the weather that very day , rude carts , bespattered with rustic mire , snuffed about by pigs , and roosted in by poultry , which the farmer , Death , had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the ...
... Paris , there were sheltered from the weather that very day , rude carts , bespattered with rustic mire , snuffed about by pigs , and roosted in by poultry , which the farmer , Death , had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the ...
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... Paris on business . A crown to drink . I may read this ? " ' " If so be as you ' re quick , sir . " 666 He opened it in the light of the coach - lamp on that side , and read — first to himself and then aloud : Wait at Dover for Mam ...
... Paris on business . A crown to drink . I may read this ? " ' " If so be as you ' re quick , sir . " 666 He opened it in the light of the coach - lamp on that side , and read — first to himself and then aloud : Wait at Dover for Mam ...
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... gentlemen in their travelling backwards and forwards betwixt London and Paris , sir . A vast deal of travelling , sir , in Tellson and Company's house . " We are quite a French house , as well as 20 A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
... gentlemen in their travelling backwards and forwards betwixt London and Paris , sir . A vast deal of travelling , sir , in Tellson and Company's house . " We are quite a French house , as well as 20 A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
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... Paris , there to communicate with a gentleman of the Bank , so good as to be despatched to Paris for the purpose . " " Myself . " 66 As I was prepared to hear , sir . " She curtseyed to him ( young ladies made curtseys in those days ) ...
... Paris , there to communicate with a gentleman of the Bank , so good as to be despatched to Paris for the purpose . " " Myself . " 66 As I was prepared to hear , sir . " She curtseyed to him ( young ladies made curtseys in those days ) ...
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... Paris . I had the honour of knowing him there . Our relations were business relations , but confidential . I was at that time in our French house , and had been — oh ! twenty years . " 44 At that time — I may ask , at what time , sir ...
... Paris . I had the honour of knowing him there . Our relations were business relations , but confidential . I was at that time in our French house , and had been — oh ! twenty years . " 44 At that time — I may ask , at what time , sir ...
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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,...