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 15
... wall than a head of hair , that the best of players at leap - frog might have declined him , as the most dangerous man in the world to go over . While he trotted back with the message he was to de- liver to the night watchman in his box ...
... wall than a head of hair , that the best of players at leap - frog might have declined him , as the most dangerous man in the world to go over . While he trotted back with the message he was to de- liver to the night watchman in his box ...
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... wall . ( " I really think this must be a man ! " was Mr. Lorry's breathless reflection , simultaneously with his coming against the wall . ) 66 66 Why , look at you all ! " bawled this figure , address- ing the inn servants . Why don't ...
... wall . ( " I really think this must be a man ! " was Mr. Lorry's breathless reflection , simultaneously with his coming against the wall . ) 66 66 Why , look at you all ! " bawled this figure , address- ing the inn servants . Why don't ...
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... wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine - lees — BLOOD . The time was to come when that wine too would be spilled on the street - stones , and when the stain of it would be red upon many there . And now that the cloud settled on Saint ...
... wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine - lees — BLOOD . The time was to come when that wine too would be spilled on the street - stones , and when the stain of it would be red upon many there . And now that the cloud settled on Saint ...
Page 41
... wall with his hand , and mutter a tremendous curse . No direct answer could have been so forcible . Mr. Lorry's spirits grew heavier and heavier , as he and his two com- panions ascended higher and higher . Such a staircase , with its ...
... wall with his hand , and mutter a tremendous curse . No direct answer could have been so forcible . Mr. Lorry's spirits grew heavier and heavier , as he and his two com- panions ascended higher and higher . Such a staircase , with its ...
Page 44
... wall . On hearing footsteps close at hand , these three turned and rose , and showed them- selves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine - shop . " I forgot them in the surprise of your visit , " explained ...
... wall . On hearing footsteps close at hand , these three turned and rose , and showed them- selves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine - shop . " I forgot them in the surprise of your visit , " explained ...
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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,...