The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... Monsieur Regnier of the Comédie Française , called this book " the best story I have written , " his self - criticism was just . It is the best charpenté of his tales up to that date ; the most compact , and the most lucid in its ...
... Monsieur Regnier of the Comédie Française , called this book " the best story I have written , " his self - criticism was just . It is the best charpenté of his tales up to that date ; the most compact , and the most lucid in its ...
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... 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 him there . Our relations were business relations , but ...
... 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 him there . Our relations were business relations , but ...
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... Monsieur Manette had not died ; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared ; if he had been spirited away ; if it had not been difficult to guess to what dreadful place , though no art could trace him ; if he had an enemy in some ...
... Monsieur Manette had not died ; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared ; if he had been spirited away ; if it had not been difficult to guess to what dreadful place , though no art could trace him ; if he had an enemy in some ...
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... cards , two playing dominoes , three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine . As he passed behind the counter , he took notice MONSIEUR AND MADAME DEFARGE . 37 that the elderly gentleman 36 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... cards , two playing dominoes , three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine . As he passed behind the counter , he took notice MONSIEUR AND MADAME DEFARGE . 37 that the elderly gentleman 36 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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... Monsieur Defarge . " Is all the spilt wine swallowed ? " " Every drop , Jacques , " answered Monsieur Defarge . When this interchange of christian name was effected , Madame Defarge , picking her teeth with her toothpick , coughed ...
... Monsieur Defarge . " Is all the spilt wine swallowed ? " " Every drop , Jacques , " answered Monsieur Defarge . When this interchange of christian name was effected , Madame Defarge , picking her teeth with her toothpick , coughed ...
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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!