The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... Madame Defarge are surely characters memorable enough . Carton has been argued against , as not a plausible character , and , in the nature of the case , he is not a usual character . But there is nothing impossible , or gravely ...
... Madame Defarge are surely characters memorable enough . Carton has been argued against , as not a plausible character , and , in the nature of the case , he is not a usual character . But there is nothing impossible , or gravely ...
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... Madame Defarge's mean death in a grotesque scuffle , with the stately and honourable death of Carton . The grim ingenuity of the device by which Jerry learns that Cly is not dead , accounts for the introduction of a character common ...
... Madame Defarge's mean death in a grotesque scuffle , with the stately and honourable death of Carton . The grim ingenuity of the device by which Jerry learns that Cly is not dead , accounts for the introduction of a character common ...
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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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Charles Dickens. MONSIEUR AND MADAME DEFARGE . 37 that the elderly gentleman said in a look to the young lady , " This is our man . ' 99 " What the devil do you do in that galley there ? " said Monsieur Defarge to himself ; " I don't ...
Charles Dickens. MONSIEUR AND MADAME DEFARGE . 37 that the elderly gentleman said in a look to the young lady , " This is our man . ' 99 " What the devil do you do in that galley there ? " said Monsieur Defarge to himself ; " I don't ...
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... Defarge started and became deeply attentive . It had not lasted a minute , when he nodded and went out . The gentleman then beckoned to the young lady , and they , too , went out . Madame Defarge knitted with nimble fingers and steady ...
... Defarge started and became deeply attentive . It had not lasted a minute , when he nodded and went out . The gentleman then beckoned to the young lady , and they , too , went out . Madame Defarge knitted with nimble fingers and steady ...
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Page 12 - 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!