The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... Sydney Carton . The French Revolution has been a fertile but not a fortunate field for novelists . Scott justly observed , about some other historical events , that they are , in themselves , too strong for romantic treatment . Nothing ...
... Sydney Carton . The French Revolution has been a fertile but not a fortunate field for novelists . Scott justly observed , about some other historical events , that they are , in themselves , too strong for romantic treatment . Nothing ...
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... Sydney Carton , and Mr. Stryver , and 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 ...
... Sydney Carton , and Mr. Stryver , and 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 ...
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... Sydney Carton , he always had his points at his fingers ' ends in the morning . Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men , was Stryver's great ally . What the two drank together , between Hilary Term and Michaelmas , might ...
... Sydney Carton , he always had his points at his fingers ' ends in the morning . Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men , was Stryver's great ally . What the two drank together , between Hilary Term and Michaelmas , might ...
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... Sydney . " " Two to - night , I think . I have been dining with the day's client ; or seeing him dine - it's all one ! " " That was a rare point , Sydney , that you brought to bear upon the identification . How did you come by it ? When ...
... Sydney . " " Two to - night , I think . I have been dining with the day's client ; or seeing him dine - it's all one ! " " That was a rare point , Sydney , that you brought to bear upon the identification . How did you come by it ? When ...
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... Sydney , fill a bumper of punch , " said Mr. Stryver . The jackal removed the towels from his head , which had been steaming again , shook himself , yawned , shivered , and complied . " You were very sound , Sydney , in the matter of ...
... Sydney , fill a bumper of punch , " said Mr. Stryver . The jackal removed the towels from his head , which had been steaming again , shook himself , yawned , shivered , and complied . " You were very sound , Sydney , in the matter of ...
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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!