The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... stopped in his character of " the Captain , " gallantly shot him through the 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 ...
... stopped in his character of " the Captain , " gallantly shot him through the 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 ...
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... stopped when the coach stopped , and they kept close company with it . If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness , he would have put himself in a fair way of ...
... stopped when the coach stopped , and they kept close company with it . If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness , he would have put himself in a fair way of ...
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... stopping pretty often at ale - houses by the way to drink , but evincing a tendency to keep his own counsel , and to ... stopped for drink , he moved this muffler with his left hand , only while he poured his liquor in with his right ...
... stopping pretty often at ale - houses by the way to drink , but evincing a tendency to keep his own counsel , and to ... stopped for drink , he moved this muffler with his left hand , only while he poured his liquor in with his right ...
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... stopped , wandered , and began anew : " As I was saying ; if Monsieur Manette had not died ; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared ; if he had been spirited away ; if it had not been difficult to guess to what dreadful place ...
... stopped , wandered , and began anew : " As I was saying ; if Monsieur Manette had not died ; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared ; if he had been spirited away ; if it had not been difficult to guess to what dreadful place ...
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... stopped . The expression in the forehead , which had so particularly attracted his notice , and which was now immovable , had deepened into one of pain and horror . " But he has been - been found . He is alive . Greatly changed , it is ...
... stopped . The expression in the forehead , which had so particularly attracted his notice , and which was now immovable , had deepened into one of pain and horror . " But he has been - been found . He is alive . Greatly changed , it is ...
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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!