The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... and seventy - five conduct their Greatnesses , and myriads of small creatures - the creatures of this chronicle among the rest - along the roads that lay before them . CHAPTER II . THE MAIL . It was the Dover 4 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
... and seventy - five conduct their Greatnesses , and myriads of small creatures - the creatures of this chronicle among the rest - along the roads that lay before them . CHAPTER II . THE MAIL . It was the Dover 4 A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
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Charles Dickens. CHAPTER II . THE MAIL . It was the Dover road that lay , on a Friday night late in November , before the first of the persons with whom this history has business . The Dover road lay , as to him , beyond the Dover mail ...
Charles Dickens. CHAPTER II . THE MAIL . It was the Dover road that lay , on a Friday night late in November , before the first of the persons with whom this history has business . The Dover road lay , as to him , beyond the Dover mail ...
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... road ; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it , as if they had made it all . Two other passengers , besides the one , were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail . All three were wrapped to the cheek - bones and over ...
... road ; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it , as if they had made it all . Two other passengers , besides the one , were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail . All three were wrapped to the cheek - bones and over ...
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... road below him . They all looked from the coachman to the guard , and from the guard to the coachman , and listened . The coachman looked back and the guard looked back , and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back ...
... road below him . They all looked from the coachman to the guard , and from the guard to the coachman , and listened . The coachman looked back and the guard looked back , and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back ...
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... road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers , who immediately scrambled into the coach , shut the door , and pulled up the window . " He may come close ; there's nothing wrong . " " I hope there ...
... road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers , who immediately scrambled into the coach , shut the door , and pulled up the window . " He may come close ; there's nothing wrong . " " I hope there ...
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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!