The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... 97 CHAPTER VI . Hundreds of People 104 Monseigneur in Town • CHAPTER VII . 118 CHAPTER VIII . Monseigneur in the Country . 128 CHAPTER IX . The Gorgon's Head 135 Two Promises CONTENTS . CHAPTER X. xvii PAGE 148 CHAPTER xvi CONTENTS .
... 97 CHAPTER VI . Hundreds of People 104 Monseigneur in Town • CHAPTER VII . 118 CHAPTER VIII . Monseigneur in the Country . 128 CHAPTER IX . The Gorgon's Head 135 Two Promises CONTENTS . CHAPTER X. xvii PAGE 148 CHAPTER xvi CONTENTS .
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... head and rode away ; the mail was waylaid by seven robbers , and the guard shot three dead , and then got shot dead himself by the other four , " in consequence of the failure of his ammunition : " after which the mail was robbed in ...
... head and rode away ; the mail was waylaid by seven robbers , and the guard shot three dead , and then got shot dead himself by the other four , " in consequence of the failure of his ammunition : " after which the mail was robbed in ...
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... heads and tremulous tails , they mashed their way through the thick mud , floundering and stumbling between whiles , as ... head and everything upon it - like an unusually emphatic horse , denying that the coach could be got up the hill ...
... heads and tremulous tails , they mashed their way through the thick mud , floundering and stumbling between whiles , as ... head and everything upon it - like an unusually emphatic horse , denying that the coach could be got up the hill ...
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... head . Except on the crown , which was raggedly bald , he had stiff , black hair , standing jaggedly all over it , and growing down hill almost to his broad , blunt nose . It was so like smith's work , so much more like the top of a ...
... head . Except on the crown , which was raggedly bald , he had stiff , black hair , standing jaggedly all over it , and growing down hill almost to his broad , blunt nose . It was so like smith's work , so much more like the top of a ...
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... head was prematurely white . A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre : " Buried how long ? " The answer was always the same : " Almost eighteen years . " " You had abandoned all hope of being dug out ? " 66 Long ...
... head was prematurely white . A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre : " Buried how long ? " The answer was always the same : " Almost eighteen years . " " You had abandoned all hope of being dug out ? " 66 Long ...
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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!