The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... seemed to be numerous , for she shied at every shadow on the road . What time , the mail - coach lumbered , jolted , rattled , and bumped upon its tedious way , with its three fellow - inscru- tables inside . To whom , likewise , the ...
... seemed to be numerous , for she shied at every shadow on the road . What time , the mail - coach lumbered , jolted , rattled , and bumped upon its tedious way , with its three fellow - inscru- tables inside . To whom , likewise , the ...
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... seemed to cloud too . When it was dark , and he sat before the coffee - room 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 ...
... seemed to cloud too . When it was dark , and he sat before the coffee - room 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 ...
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... seemed wilfully to mistake the word she had repeated , when he added , in a hurry , " Yes , customers ; in the banking business we usually call our connexion our customers . He was a French gentleman ; a scientific gentleman ; a man of ...
... seemed wilfully to mistake the word she had repeated , when he added , in a hurry , " Yes , customers ; in the banking business we usually call our connexion our customers . He was a French gentleman ; a scientific gentleman ; a man of ...
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... seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady face , strong features , and great composure of manner . There was a character about Madame Defarge , from which one might have predicated that she did not often make ...
... seemed to look at anything , a large hand heavily ringed , a steady face , strong features , and great composure of manner . There was a character about Madame Defarge , from which one might have predicated that she did not often make ...
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... and the light , and the very bones of it seemed transparent . So he sat , with a steadfastly vacant gaze , pausing in his work . He never looked at the figure before him , without first looking down on this side of himself , then on that ,
... and the light , and the very bones of it seemed transparent . So he sat , with a steadfastly vacant gaze , pausing in his work . He never looked at the figure before him , without first looking down on this side of himself , then on that ,
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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!