A tale of two citiesTicknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... Never you mind what it is ? " the guarded retorted . " What are you ? " " Is that the Dover mail ? " " Why do you want to know ? " " I want a passenger , if it is . " " What passenger ? " " Mr. Jarvis Lorry . " Our booked passenger ...
... Never you mind what it is ? " the guarded retorted . " What are you ? " " Is that the Dover mail ? " " Why do you want to know ? " " I want a passenger , if it is . " " What passenger ? " " Mr. Jarvis Lorry . " Our booked passenger ...
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... never saw - so long dead- Mr. Lorry moved in his chair , and cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of negro cupids . As if they had any help for anybody in their absurd baskets ! " -rendered it necessary that I should go ...
... never saw - so long dead- Mr. Lorry moved in his chair , and cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of negro cupids . As if they had any help for anybody in their absurd baskets ! " -rendered it necessary that I should go ...
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... never seen you since . No ; you have been the ward of Tellson's House since , and I have been busy with the other business of Tellson's House since . Feelings ! I have no time for them , no chance of them . I pass my whole life , miss ...
... never seen you since . No ; you have been the ward of Tellson's House since , and I have been busy with the other business of Tellson's House since . Feelings ! I have no time for them , no chance of them . I pass my whole life , miss ...
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... never haunted me ! " 66 Only one thing more , " said Mr. Lorry , laying stress upon it as a wholesome means of enforcing her attention : “ he has been found under another name ; his own , long forgotten or long concealed . It would be ...
... never haunted me ! " 66 Only one thing more , " said Mr. Lorry , laying stress upon it as a wholesome means of enforcing her attention : “ he has been found under another name ; his own , long forgotten or long concealed . It would be ...
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... never looked at the figure before him , without first looking down on this side of himself , then on that , as if he had lost the habit of associating place with sound ; he never spoke , without first wandering in this manner , and ...
... never looked at the figure before him , without first looking down on this side of himself , then on that , as if he had lost the habit of associating place with sound ; he never spoke , without first wandering in this manner , and ...
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