A tale of two citiesTicknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... roads that lay before them . CHAPTER II . THE MAIL . Ir was the Dover road that lay , on a Friday night late in November , before the first of the persons with whom this history has business . The Dover road lay , as to him , beyond the ...
... roads that lay before them . CHAPTER II . THE MAIL . Ir was the Dover road that lay , on a Friday night late in November , before the first of the persons with whom this history has business . The Dover road lay , as to him , beyond the ...
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... road ; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it , as if they had made it all . Two other passengers , besides the one , were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail . All three were wrapped to the cheek - bones and over ...
... road ; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it , as if they had made it all . Two other passengers , besides the one , were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail . All three were wrapped to the cheek - bones and over ...
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... road below him . They all looked from the coachman to the guard , and from the guard to the coachman , and listened . The coach- man looked back , and the guard looked back , and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked ...
... road below him . They all looked from the coachman to the guard , and from the guard to the coachman , and listened . The coach- man looked back , and the guard looked back , and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked ...
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... road . What time , the mail - coach lumbered , joltled , rattled , and bumped upon its tedious way , with its three fellow inscru- tables inside . To whom , likewise , the shadows of the night revealed themselves , in the forms their ...
... road . What time , the mail - coach lumbered , joltled , rattled , and bumped upon its tedious way , with its three fellow inscru- tables inside . To whom , likewise , the shadows of the night revealed themselves , in the forms their ...
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... road between the Concord and the coffee - room , when a gentleman of sixty , formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes , pretty well worn , but very well kept , with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets , passed along on ...
... road between the Concord and the coffee - room , when a gentleman of sixty , formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes , pretty well worn , but very well kept , with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets , passed along on ...
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