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... STRYVER AT TELLSON'S BANK THE SPY'S FUNERAL DITTO • 7 DITTO 43 DITTO 71 DITTO • • 76 DITTO . 107 DITTO 141 • THE WINE - SHOP THE ACCOMPLICES THE SEA RISES . BEFORE THE PRISON TRIBUNAL THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR . DITTO 154 · DITTO 164 ...
... STRYVER AT TELLSON'S BANK THE SPY'S FUNERAL DITTO • 7 DITTO 43 DITTO 71 DITTO • • 76 DITTO . 107 DITTO 141 • THE WINE - SHOP THE ACCOMPLICES THE SEA RISES . BEFORE THE PRISON TRIBUNAL THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR . DITTO 154 · DITTO 164 ...
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... Stryver ( the prisoner's counsel ) , whether they were next to try Mr. Carton ( name of my learned friend ) for treason ? But , Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord , no ; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once ...
... Stryver ( the prisoner's counsel ) , whether they were next to try Mr. Carton ( name of my learned friend ) for treason ? But , Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord , no ; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once ...
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... Stryver then called his few witnesses , and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney - General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury , inside out ; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred ...
... Stryver then called his few witnesses , and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney - General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury , inside out ; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred ...
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... Stryver , stood gathered around Mr. Charles Darnay - just released - congratulating him on his escape from death . It would have been difficult by a far brighter light , to re- cognise in Doctor Manette , intellectual of face and ...
... Stryver , stood gathered around Mr. Charles Darnay - just released - congratulating him on his escape from death . It would have been difficult by a far brighter light , to re- cognise in Doctor Manette , intellectual of face and ...
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... Stryver , whom he warmly thanked . Mr. Stryver , a man of little more than thirty , but looking twenty years older than he was , stout , loud , red , bluff , and free from any drawback of delicacy , had a pushing way of shouldering ...
... Stryver , whom he warmly thanked . Mr. Stryver , a man of little more than thirty , but looking twenty years older than he was , stout , loud , red , bluff , and free from any drawback of delicacy , had a pushing way of shouldering ...
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Alexandre Manette answer asked Barsad breast brother carriage Charles Darnay château child citizen coach Conciergerie corner court-yard cried Cruncher dark daughter dead dear Defarge's Doctor Manette door dreadful Evrémonde eyes face father fingers fountain France Gabelle gentleman gone hair hand head heart honour hope horses hour husband Jacques Three knew knitting light live looked Lorry's Lucie Lucie Manette Madame Defarge manner mender of roads mind Miss Manette Miss Pross Monseigneur Monsieur Defarge Monsieur the Marquis never night Old Bailey opened Paris passed poor postilions prisoner returned Saint Antoine seen shadow shoulder silence Soho stone stood stopped streets Stryver Sydney Carton tell Tellson's Temple Bar things thought took touch tumbrils turned Vengeance village voice walked whisper wife window wine wine-shop woman words Young Jerry
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.