The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... Fire Rises 262 CHAPTER XXIV . Drawn to the Loadstone Rock 270 BOOK THE THIRD . THE TRACK OF A STORM . CHAPTER I. In Secret 285 CHAPTER II . The Grindstone 299 CHAPTER III . · The Shadow . . 307 CHAPTER IV . Calm in Storm 313 CONTENTS ...
... Fire Rises 262 CHAPTER XXIV . Drawn to the Loadstone Rock 270 BOOK THE THIRD . THE TRACK OF A STORM . CHAPTER I. In Secret 285 CHAPTER II . The Grindstone 299 CHAPTER III . · The Shadow . . 307 CHAPTER IV . Calm in Storm 313 CONTENTS ...
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... fire ! " The pace was suddenly checked , and , with much splashing and floundering , a man's voice called from the mist , " Is that the Dover mail ? ” " Never you mind what it is ? " the guard retorted . " What are you ? " " Is that the ...
... fire ! " The pace was suddenly checked , and , with much splashing and floundering , a man's voice called from the mist , " Is that the Dover mail ? ” " Never you mind what it is ? " the guard retorted . " What are you ? " " Is that the ...
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... off gentleman's boots in Concord . ( You will find a fine sea - coal fire , sir . ) Fetch barber to Concord . Stir about there , now , for Concord ! " C The Concord bed - chamber being always assigned to a CHAPTER IV The Preparation.
... off gentleman's boots in Concord . ( You will find a fine sea - coal fire , sir . ) Fetch barber to Concord . Stir about there , now , for Concord ! " C The Concord bed - chamber being always assigned to a CHAPTER IV The Preparation.
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... fire , and as he sat , with its light shining on him , waiting for the meal , he sat so still , that he might have been sitting for his portrait . Very orderly and methodical he looked , with a hand on each knee , and a loud watch ...
... fire , and as he sat , with its light shining on him , waiting for the meal , he sat so still , that he might have been sitting for his portrait . Very orderly and methodical he looked , with a hand on each knee , and a loud watch ...
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... fire , awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast , his mind was busily digging , digging , digging , in the live red coals . A bottle of good claret after dinner does a digger in the red coals no harm , otherwise than as it ...
... fire , awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast , his mind was busily digging , digging , digging , in the live red coals . A bottle of good claret after dinner does a digger in the red coals no harm , otherwise than as it ...
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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!