A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... hear the message ? " I did , Joe . " " What did you make of it , Tom ? " 66 ' Nothing at all , Joe . " " That's a coincidence , too , " the guard mused , " for I made the same of it myself . " Jerry , left alone in the mist and darkness ...
... hear the message ? " I did , Joe . " " What did you make of it , Tom ? " 66 ' Nothing at all , Joe . " " That's a coincidence , too , " the guard mused , " for I made the same of it myself . " Jerry , left alone in the mist and darkness ...
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... -rendered it necessary that I should go to Paris , there to communicate with a gentleman of the Bank , so good as to be despatched to Paris for the purpose . ' " Myself . " " As I was prepared to hear , sir . THE PREPARATION . 23.
... -rendered it necessary that I should go to Paris , there to communicate with a gentleman of the Bank , so good as to be despatched to Paris for the purpose . ' " Myself . " " As I was prepared to hear , sir . THE PREPARATION . 23.
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Charles Dickens. " As I was prepared to hear , sir . " She curtseyed to him ( young ladies made curtseys in those days ) , with a pretty desire to convey to him that she felt how much older and wiser he was than she . He made her another ...
Charles Dickens. " As I was prepared to hear , sir . " She curtseyed to him ( young ladies made curtseys in those days ) , with a pretty desire to convey to him that she felt how much older and wiser he was than she . He made her another ...
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... hear- ing footsteps close at hand , these three turned , and rose , and showed themselves 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 Monsieur Defarge ...
... hear- ing footsteps close at hand , these three turned , and rose , and showed themselves 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 Monsieur Defarge ...
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... hear in my voice - I don't know that it is so , but I hope it is - if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears , weep for it , weep for it ! If you touch , in touching my hair , anything ...
... hear in my voice - I don't know that it is so , but I hope it is - if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears , weep for it , weep for it ! If you touch , in touching my hair , anything ...
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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...