The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... , when the mob had its will and its way . According to the right rule of historical fiction , the cha- racters are unhistorical . " The domestic life of a few simple private people is so knitted and interwoven with the outbreak.
... , when the mob had its will and its way . According to the right rule of historical fiction , the cha- racters are unhistorical . " The domestic life of a few simple private people is so knitted and interwoven with the outbreak.
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Charles Dickens. private people is so knitted and interwoven with the outbreak of a terrible public event , that the one seems but part of the other . " Dickens does not give us long chapters of actual history . He could have introduced ...
Charles Dickens. private people is so knitted and interwoven with the outbreak of a terrible public event , that the one seems but part of the other . " Dickens does not give us long chapters of actual history . He could have introduced ...
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... Knitting 188 CHAPTER XVI . Still Knitting 201 CHAPTER XVII . One Night 214 CHAPTER XVIII . Nine Days 220 An Opinion • CHAPTER XIX . 228 A Plea . CHAPTER XX . CHAPTER XXI . PAGE.
... Knitting 188 CHAPTER XVI . Still Knitting 201 CHAPTER XVII . One Night 214 CHAPTER XVIII . Nine Days 220 An Opinion • CHAPTER XIX . 228 A Plea . CHAPTER XX . CHAPTER XXI . PAGE.
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... XI . Dusk 388 CHAPTER XII . Darkness 393 CHAPTER XIII . Fifty - two 403 CHAPTER XIV . The Knitting Done 417 CHAPTER XV . The Footsteps Die out for Ever • . 431 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . FRONTISPIECE . VIGNETTE . THE MAIL.
... XI . Dusk 388 CHAPTER XII . Darkness 393 CHAPTER XIII . Fifty - two 403 CHAPTER XIV . The Knitting Done 417 CHAPTER XV . The Footsteps Die out for Ever • . 431 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . FRONTISPIECE . VIGNETTE . THE MAIL.
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... a singular capacity ( remembering how young and smooth it was ) of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity , or wonder , or alarm , or merely of a bright fixed attention , though it included.
... a singular capacity ( remembering how young and smooth it was ) of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity , or wonder , or alarm , or merely of a bright fixed attention , though it included.
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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!