The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... hard on the character , and Dickens's wicked Marquis may be hard on his order . " It is not unreasonable or unallowable to suppose a nobleman wedded to the old cruel ideas , " says Dickens to Lytton , and , in romance , it is doubtless ...
... hard on the character , and Dickens's wicked Marquis may be hard on his order . " It is not unreasonable or unallowable to suppose a nobleman wedded to the old cruel ideas , " says Dickens to Lytton , and , in romance , it is doubtless ...
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... hard to answer , that he could only look on , at a distance , with much feebler sympathy and humility , while the strong woman , having banished the inn servants under the mysterious penalty of " letting them know " something not ...
... hard to answer , that he could only look on , at a distance , with much feebler sympathy and humility , while the strong woman , having banished the inn servants under the mysterious penalty of " letting them know " something not ...
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... water , do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island ? " This being another question hard to answer , Mr. Jarvis Lorry withdrew to consider it . CHAPTER V. THE WINE - SHOP . A LARGE cask 30 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... water , do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island ? " This being another question hard to answer , Mr. Jarvis Lorry withdrew to consider it . CHAPTER V. THE WINE - SHOP . A LARGE cask 30 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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... hard lives they live , Jacques . Am I right , Jacques ? " " You are right , Jacques , " was the response of Monsieur Defarge . This third interchange of the christian name was completed at the moment when Madame Defarge put her ...
... hard lives they live , Jacques . Am I right , Jacques ? " " You are right , Jacques , " was the response of Monsieur Defarge . This third interchange of the christian name was completed at the moment when Madame Defarge put her ...
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... hard at work , I see ? " After a long silence , the head was lifted for another moment , and the voice replied , " Yes - I am working . " This time , a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner , before the face had dropped ...
... hard at work , I see ? " After a long silence , the head was lifted for another moment , and the voice replied , " Yes - I am working . " This time , a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner , before the face had dropped ...
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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!