The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster . Even the Cock - lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years , after rapping out its messages , as the spirits of this very ...
... appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster . Even the Cock - lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years , after rapping out its messages , as the spirits of this very ...
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... out his last glassful of wine with as complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the MISS MANETTE . 21 end of a bottle , when 20 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... out his last glassful of wine with as complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the MISS MANETTE . 21 end of a bottle , when 20 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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... appearance and degree , and the master of the wine- shop had stood outside it , in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches , looking on at the struggle for the lost wine . " It's not my affair , " said he , with a final shrug of the ...
... appearance and degree , and the master of the wine- shop had stood outside it , in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches , looking on at the struggle for the lost wine . " It's not my affair , " said he , with a final shrug of the ...
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... appearance rose from her knees in a corner , with sufficient haste and trepidation to show that she was the person referred to . 66 " What ! " said Mr. Cruncher , looking out of bed for a boot . " You're at it agin , are you ? " After ...
... appearance rose from her knees in a corner , with sufficient haste and trepidation to show that she was the person referred to . 66 " What ! " said Mr. Cruncher , looking out of bed for a boot . " You're at it agin , are you ? " After ...
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... appearance in respect of the absolute whiteness of his hair , and a certain indescrib- able intensity of face : not of an active kind , but pondering and self - communing . When this expression was upon him , he looked as if he were old ...
... appearance in respect of the absolute whiteness of his hair , and a certain indescrib- able intensity of face : not of an active kind , but pondering and self - communing . When this expression was upon him , he looked as if he were old ...
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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!