The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts].1871 |
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... hearts of the passengers beat loud enough , perhaps , to be heard ; but , at any rate , the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath , and holding the breath , and having the pulses quick- ened by expectation . The ...
... hearts of the passengers beat loud enough , perhaps , to be heard ; but , at any rate , the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath , and holding the breath , and having the pulses quick- ened by expectation . The ...
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... heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there , is , in some of its imaginings , a secret to the heart nearest it ! Something of the awfulness , even of Death itself , is referable to this . No more can I turn the leaves of this ...
... heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there , is , in some of its imaginings , a secret to the heart nearest it ! Something of the awfulness , even of Death itself , is referable to this . No more can I turn the leaves of this ...
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... heart out in prison , or wasted there through many lingering years . ' 99 As he said the words , he looked down , with an admiring pity , on the flowing golden hair ; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged ...
... heart out in prison , or wasted there through many lingering years . ' 99 As he said the words , he looked down , with an admiring pity , on the flowing golden hair ; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged ...
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... heart . The joker rapped it with his own , took a nimble spring upward , and came down in a fantastic dancing attitude , with one of his stained shoes jerked off his foot into his hand , and held out . A joker of an extremely , not to ...
... heart . The joker rapped it with his own , took a nimble spring upward , and came down in a fantastic dancing attitude , with one of his stained shoes jerked off his foot into his hand , and held out . A joker of an extremely , not to ...
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... heart pined away , weep for it , weep for it ! " She held him closer round the neck , and rocked him on her breast like a child . " If , when I tell you , dearest dear , that your agony is over , and that I have come here to take you ...
... heart pined away , weep for it , weep for it ! " She held him closer round the neck , and rocked him on her breast like a child . " If , when I tell you , dearest dear , that your agony is over , and that I have come here to take you ...
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Page 2 - ... age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative...
Page 6 - A WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
Page 175 - Guillotine. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms.
Page 2 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
Page 175 - Six tumbrils roll along the streets. Change these back again to what they were, thou powerful enchanter, Time, and they shall be seen to be the carriages of absolute monarchs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilettes of flaring Jezebels, the churches that are not my father's house but dens of thieves, the huts of millions of starving peasants!
Page 6 - I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality; and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places in this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?