The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... touch of colour consistent with historical verity . This is hard on the character , and Dickens's wicked Marquis may be hard on his order . " It is not unreasonable or unallowable to suppose a nobleman wedded to the old cruel ideas ...
... touch of colour consistent with historical verity . This is hard on the character , and Dickens's wicked Marquis may be hard on his order . " It is not unreasonable or unallowable to suppose a nobleman wedded to the old cruel ideas ...
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... touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles of the right hand in the hollow of the left , and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right , and then ...
... touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles of the right hand in the hollow of the left , and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right , and then ...
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... touch , in touching my hair , anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free , weep for it , weep for it ! If , when I hint to you of a Home that is before us , where I will be true to you with ...
... touch , in touching my hair , anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free , weep for it , weep for it ! If , when I hint to you of a Home that is before us , where I will be true to you with ...
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... touch , in touching my hair , anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free , weep for it , weep for it ! If , when I hint to you of a Home that is before us , where I will be true to you with ...
... touch , in touching my hair , anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free , weep for it , weep for it ! If , when I hint to you of a Home that is before us , where I will be true to you with ...
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... touching , yet so terrible in the tremendous wrong and suffering which had gone before it , that the two beholders covered their faces . When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed , and his heaving breast and shaken form had ...
... touching , yet so terrible in the tremendous wrong and suffering which had gone before it , that the two beholders covered their faces . When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed , and his heaving breast and shaken form had ...
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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!