The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... eyes of the body , of his two companions . In those days , travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short ... eye and a hand on the arm - chest before him , where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded ...
... eyes of the body , of his two companions . In those days , travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short ... eye and a hand on the arm - chest before him , where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded ...
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... eyes at the guard , handed the passenger a small folded paper . The rider's horse was blown , and both horse and ... eye on the horseman , answered curtly , “ Sir . ” " There is nothing to apprehend . I belong to Tellson's Bank . You ...
... eyes at the guard , handed the passenger a small folded paper . The rider's horse was blown , and both horse and ... eye on the horseman , answered curtly , “ Sir . ” " There is nothing to apprehend . I belong to Tellson's Bank . You ...
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... eyes . He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration , being of a surface black , with no depth in the colour or form , and much too near together — as if they were afraid of being found out in something , singly , if they ...
... eyes . He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration , being of a surface black , with no depth in the colour or form , and much too near together — as if they were afraid of being found out in something , singly , if they ...
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... eyes and wan- dering thoughts suggested . Tellson's Bank had a run upon it in the mail . As the bank passenger - with an arm drawn through the leathern strap , which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against the next ...
... eyes and wan- dering thoughts suggested . Tellson's Bank had a run upon it in the mail . As the bank passenger - with an arm drawn through the leathern strap , which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against the next ...
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... . The passenger would then start to himself , and lower the window , to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek . Yet even when his eyes were opened on the mist and rain , on the moving patch of light from the lamps ,
... . The passenger would then start to himself , and lower the window , to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek . Yet even when his eyes were opened on the mist and rain , on the moving patch of light from the lamps ,
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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!