The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts].1871 |
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... walked uphill in the mire by the side of the mail , as the rest of the passengers did ; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise under the circumstances , but because the hill , and the harness , and the mud , and the ...
... walked uphill in the mire by the side of the mail , as the rest of the passengers did ; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise under the circumstances , but because the hill , and the harness , and the mud , and the ...
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... walked across the room with a measured tread to where the window was . He stopped there , and faced round . The garret , built to be a depository for fire- wood and the like , was dim and dark : for the window , of dormer shape , was in ...
... walked across the room with a measured tread to where the window was . He stopped there , and faced round . The garret , built to be a depository for fire- wood and the like , was dim and dark : for the window , of dormer shape , was in ...
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... walked out . He turned into the Temple , and , having revived himself by twice pacing the pavements of King's Bench Walk and Paper Buildings , turned into the Stryver chambers . The Stryver clerk , who never assisted at these ...
... walked out . He turned into the Temple , and , having revived himself by twice pacing the pavements of King's Bench Walk and Paper Buildings , turned into the Stryver chambers . The Stryver clerk , who never assisted at these ...
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... walked towards Soho , early in the afternoon , for three reasons of habit . Firstly , because , on fine Sun- days , he often walked out , before dinner , with the Doctor and Lucie ; secondly , because , on unfavourable Sundays , he was ...
... walked towards Soho , early in the afternoon , for three reasons of habit . Firstly , because , on fine Sun- days , he often walked out , before dinner , with the Doctor and Lucie ; secondly , because , on unfavourable Sundays , he was ...
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... walked from one to another . The first was the best room , and in it were Lucie's birds , and flowers , and books , and desk , and work - table , and box of water - colours ; the second was the Doctor's consulting - room , used also as ...
... walked from one to another . The first was the best room , and in it were Lucie's birds , and flowers , and books , and desk , and work - table , and box of water - colours ; the second was the Doctor's consulting - room , used also as ...
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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?