A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... father , whom I 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 ...
... father , whom I 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 ...
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... father , the gentleman was of repute in Paris . I had the honor of knowing him there . Our relations were business ... father's story , sir ; and I begin to think " -the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him - “ that when ...
... father , the gentleman was of repute in Paris . I had the honor of knowing him there . Our relations were business ... father's story , sir ; and I begin to think " -the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him - “ that when ...
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... father . Now comes the difference . If your father had not died when he did - Don't be frightened ! How you start ! " She did , indeed , start . And she caught his wrist with both her hands . " Pray , " said Mr. Lorry , in a soothing ...
... father . Now comes the difference . If your father had not died when he did - Don't be frightened ! How you start ! " She did , indeed , start . And she caught his wrist with both her hands . " Pray , " said Mr. Lorry , in a soothing ...
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... father , she left you , at two years old , to grow to be blooming , beautiful , and happy , without the dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison , or wasted there through many ...
... father , she left you , at two years old , to grow to be blooming , beautiful , and happy , without the dark cloud upon you of living in uncertainty whether your father soon wore his heart out in prison , or wasted there through many ...
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... father who is living , and of my mother who is dead , you learn that I have to kneel to my honored father , and implore his pardon for having never for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night , be- cause the love of ...
... father who is living , and of my mother who is dead , you learn that I have to kneel to my honored father , and implore his pardon for having never for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night , be- cause the love of ...
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Page 351 - 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 754 - My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 352 - 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 52 - Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet Street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing "the House...
Page 650 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Page 816 - And now the long-forgotten scenes of a misspent life crowded thick and fast upon him. He thought of the time when he had a home — a happy, cheerful home — and of those who peopled it, and flocked about him then, until the forms of his elder...