The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... street , and rumbled into the inn - yard . He set down his glass untouched . " This is Mam'selle ! " said he . In a very few minutes the waiter came in to announce that Miss Manette had arrived from London , and would be happy to see ...
... street , and rumbled into the inn - yard . He set down his glass untouched . " This is Mam'selle ! " said he . In a very few minutes the waiter came in to announce that Miss Manette had arrived from London , and would be happy to see ...
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... street . The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart ; the cask had tumbled out with a run , the hoops had burst , and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine - shop , shattered like a walnut - shell . All the ...
... street . The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart ; the cask had tumbled out with a run , the hoops had burst , and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine - shop , shattered like a walnut - shell . All the ...
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... street , if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence . A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices - voices of men , women , and children - resounded in the street while this wine game lasted ...
... street , if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence . A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices - voices of men , women , and children - resounded in the street while this wine game lasted ...
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... street - stones , and when the stain of it would be red upon many there . And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine , which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred ... streets diverging , all peopled by rags and nightcaps.
... street - stones , and when the stain of it would be red upon many there . And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine , which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred ... streets diverging , all peopled by rags and nightcaps.
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... street - when it ran at all : which was only after heavy rains , and then it ran , by many eccentric fits , into the houses . Across the streets , at wide intervals , one clumsy lamp was slung by a rope and pulley ; at night , when the ...
... street - when it ran at all : which was only after heavy rains , and then it ran , by many eccentric fits , into the houses . Across the streets , at wide intervals , one clumsy lamp was slung by a rope and pulley ; at night , when the ...
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Alexandre Manette answered asked Barsad Bastille better breast brother brother Solomon carriage Charles Darnay château child citizen coach Conciergerie corner court-yard cried Cruncher dark daughter dead dear Defarge's Doctor Manette door dreadful Evrémonde eyes face father fountain France Gabelle gentleman gone hair hand head heart honour hope hour husband Jacques Three knew knitting light live looked Lorry's Lucie Lucie Manette Madame Defarge manner mender of roads mind Miss Manette Miss Pross Monseigneur Monsieur Defarge Monsieur the Marquis never night Old Bailey opened Paris passed poor postilions prisoner returned Saint Antoine seen shadow shoulder Soho stone stood stopped streets struck Stryver Sydney Carton tell Tellson's Temple Bar things took touch turned Vengeance village voice walked whisper wife window wine wine-shop woman words Young Jerry
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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!