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... Madame Defarge , his wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in . Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age , with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady ...
... Madame Defarge , his wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in . Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age , with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady ...
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... Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in , but coughed just one grain of cough . This , in combination with the lifting of her darkly defined eyebrows.over her toothpick by the breadth of a line , suggested to her husband that ...
... Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in , but coughed just one grain of cough . This , in combination with the lifting of her darkly defined eyebrows.over her toothpick by the breadth of a line , suggested to her husband that ...
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... Defarge . This third interchange of the christian name was com- pleted at the moment when Madame Defarge put her tooth- pick by , kept her eyebrows up , and slightly rustled in her seat . " Hold then ! True ! " muttered her husband ...
... Defarge . This third interchange of the christian name was com- pleted at the moment when Madame Defarge put her tooth- pick by , kept her eyebrows up , and slightly rustled in her seat . " Hold then ! True ! " muttered her husband ...
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... Madame Defarge - who leaned against the door - post , knit- ting , and saw nothing . The prisoner had got into the coach , and his daughter had followed him , when Mr. Lorry's feet were arrested on the step by his asking , miserably ...
... Madame Defarge - who leaned against the door - post , knit- ting , and saw nothing . The prisoner had got into the coach , and his daughter had followed him , when Mr. Lorry's feet were arrested on the step by his asking , miserably ...
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... Madame Defarge in her seat , presiding over the distribution of wine , with a bowl of battered small coins before her , as much defaced and beaten out of their original impress as the small coinage of humanity from whose ragged pockets ...
... Madame Defarge in her seat , presiding over the distribution of wine , with a bowl of battered small coins before her , as much defaced and beaten out of their original impress as the small coinage of humanity from whose ragged pockets ...
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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.