The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts].1871 |
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... seemed to be nume- rous , for she shied at every shadow on the road . What time the mail - coach lumbered , jolted , rattled , and bumped upon its tedious way , with its three fellow - inscrutables inside . To whom , likewise , the ...
... seemed to be nume- rous , for she shied at every shadow on the road . What time the mail - coach lumbered , jolted , rattled , and bumped upon its tedious way , with its three fellow - inscrutables inside . To whom , likewise , the ...
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... seemed to cloud too . When it was dark , and he sat before the coffee - room fire , awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his break- fast , his mind was busily digging , digging , digging in the live red coals . A bottle of good claret ...
... seemed to cloud too . When it was dark , and he sat before the coffee - room fire , awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his break- fast , his mind was busily digging , digging , digging in the live red coals . A bottle of good claret ...
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... seemed wilfully to mistake the word she had repeated , when he added in a hurry , " Yes , customers in the banking business we usually call our connection our customers . He was a French gentleman ; a scientific gentleman ; a man of ...
... seemed wilfully to mistake the word she had repeated , when he added in a hurry , " Yes , customers in the banking business we usually call our connection our customers . He was a French gentleman ; a scientific gentleman ; a man of ...
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... seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady face , strong features , and great compo- sure of manner . There was a character about Madame Defarge , from which one might have predicated that she did not often make ...
... seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady face , strong features , and great compo- sure of manner . There was a character about Madame Defarge , from which one might have predicated that she did not often make ...
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... seemed to escape , and all spoilt and sickly vapours seemed to crawl in . Through the rusted bars , tastes , rather than glimpses , were caught of the jumbled neighbourhood ; and nothing within range , nearer or lower than the summits ...
... seemed to escape , and all spoilt and sickly vapours seemed to crawl in . Through the rusted bars , tastes , rather than glimpses , were caught of the jumbled neighbourhood ; and nothing within range , nearer or lower than the summits ...
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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?