A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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... tell me so . " " I hope you care to live ? " " I can't say . " " Shall I show her to you ? Will you come and see her ? 99 The answers to this question were various and contradic- tory . Sometimes the broken reply was , " Wait ! It would ...
... tell me so . " " I hope you care to live ? " " I can't say . " " Shall I show her to you ? Will you come and see her ? 99 The answers to this question were various and contradic- tory . Sometimes the broken reply was , " Wait ! It would ...
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... tell me more , sir . " " I will . I am going to . You can bear it ? " " I can bear anything but the uncertainty you leave me in at this moment . " " You speak collectedly , and you are collected . That's good ! " ( Though his manner was ...
... tell me more , sir . " " I will . I am going to . You can bear it ? " " I can bear anything but the uncertainty you leave me in at this moment . " " You speak collectedly , and you are collected . That's good ! " ( Though his manner was ...
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... tell her what you had to tell her , without frightening her to death ? Look at ler , with her pretty pale face and her cold hands . Do you call that being a Banker ? " Mr. Lorry was so exceedingly disconcerted by a question so hard to ...
... tell her what you had to tell her , without frightening her to death ? Look at ler , with her pretty pale face and her cold hands . Do you call that being a Banker ? " Mr. Lorry was so exceedingly disconcerted by a question so hard to ...
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... tell me thou - is there no other place to write such words in ? " In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand ( perhaps accidentally , perhaps not ) upon the joker's heart . The joker rapped it with his own , took a nimble spring ...
... tell me thou - is there no other place to write such words in ? " In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand ( perhaps accidentally , perhaps not ) upon the joker's heart . The joker rapped it with his own , took a nimble spring ...
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... Tell Monsieur what kind of shoe it is , and the maker's name . " There was a longer pause than usual , before the shoe- maker replied : What did you " I forget what it was you asked me . say ? " " I said , couldn't you describe the kind ...
... Tell Monsieur what kind of shoe it is , and the maker's name . " There was a longer pause than usual , before the shoe- maker replied : What did you " I forget what it was you asked me . say ? " " I said , couldn't you describe the kind ...
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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.
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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...
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