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... Doctor . " " Not of Beauvais ? " 66 Why , yes , of Beauvais . Like Monsieur Manette , your father , the gentleman was of Beauvais . Like Monsieur Manette , your father , the gentleman was of repute in Paris . I had the honour of knowing ...
... Doctor . " " Not of Beauvais ? " 66 Why , yes , of Beauvais . Like Monsieur Manette , your father , the gentleman was of Beauvais . Like Monsieur Manette , your father , the gentleman was of repute in Paris . I had the honour of knowing ...
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... Doctor of Beauvais . ” " I entreat you to tell me more , sir . " " I will . I am going to . You can bear it ? " " I ... Doctor's wife , though a lady of great courage and spirit , had suffered so intensely from this cause before her ...
... Doctor of Beauvais . ” " I entreat you to tell me more , sir . " " I will . I am going to . You can bear it ? " " I ... Doctor's wife , though a lady of great courage and spirit , had suffered so intensely from this cause before her ...
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... Doctor Manette . Who was called accordingly . " Doctor Manette , look upon the prisoner . Have you ever seen him before ? " " Once . When he called at my lodgings in London . Some three years , or three years and a half ago . ” " Can ...
... Doctor Manette . Who was called accordingly . " Doctor Manette , look upon the prisoner . Have you ever seen him before ? " " Once . When he called at my lodgings in London . Some three years , or three years and a half ago . ” " Can ...
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... Doctor Manette , Lucie Manette his daughter , Mr. Lorry , the solicitor for the defence , and its counsel Mr. Stryver , stood gathered around Mr. Charles Darnay - just released - congratulating him on his escape from death . It would ...
... Doctor Manette , Lucie Manette his daughter , Mr. Lorry , the solicitor for the defence , and its counsel Mr. Stryver , stood gathered around Mr. Charles Darnay - just released - congratulating him on his escape from death . It would ...
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... Doctor Manette , to break up this conference and order us all to our homes . Miss Lucie looks ill , Mr. Darnay has had a terrible day , we are worn out . " " Speak for yourself , Mr. Lorry , " said A TALE OF TWO CITIES . 77.
... Doctor Manette , to break up this conference and order us all to our homes . Miss Lucie looks ill , Mr. Darnay has had a terrible day , we are worn out . " " Speak for yourself , Mr. Lorry , " said A TALE OF TWO CITIES . 77.
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Popular passages
Page 48 - Thus it had come to pass that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into 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...
Page 373 - 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 8 - 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 ! Something of the awfulness even of death...
Page 371 - 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. Twenty-Three.
Page 373 - I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his.
Page 48 - Accordingly, the forger was put to Death ; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death ; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death ; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death ; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death ; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death ; the sounders of three fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime were put to Death.