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... question were various and contradic- tory . Sometimes the broken reply was , " Wait ! It would kill me if I saw her too soon . " Sometimes , it was given in a tender rain of tears , and then it was A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... question were various and contradic- tory . Sometimes the broken reply was , " Wait ! It would kill me if I saw her too soon . " Sometimes , it was given in a tender rain of tears , and then it was A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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... , and good measure too , or a great Stilton cheese , came running into the room in ad- vance of the inn servants , and soon settled the question of his detachment from the poor young lady , by laying 24 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... , and good measure too , or a great Stilton cheese , came running into the room in ad- vance of the inn servants , and soon settled the question of his detachment from the poor young lady , by laying 24 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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... question so hard to answer , that he could only look on , at a distance , with much feebler sympathy and humility , while the strong woman , having banished the inn servants under the myste- rious penalty of " letting them know ...
... question so hard to answer , that he could only look on , at a distance , with much feebler sympathy and humility , while the strong woman , having banished the inn servants under the myste- rious penalty of " letting them know ...
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... question by the young lady , turned himself about here , and , carefully feeling in the pockets of the coat he carried over his shoulder , took out a key . " The door is locked then , my friend ? " said Mr. Lorry , surprised . " Ay ...
... question by the young lady , turned himself about here , and , carefully feeling in the pockets of the coat he carried over his shoulder , took out a key . " The door is locked then , my friend ? " said Mr. Lorry , surprised . " Ay ...
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... question reminded him of his work , and he bent over it again . Mr. Lorry came silently forward , leaving the daughter by the door . When he had stood , for a minute or two , by the side of Defarge , the shoemaker looked up . He showed ...
... question reminded him of his work , and he bent over it again . Mr. Lorry came silently forward , leaving the daughter by the door . When he had stood , for a minute or two , by the side of Defarge , the shoemaker looked up . He showed ...
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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.