A Tale of Two Cities: Mystery of Edwin Drood : with Introduction, Critical Comments, Argument, Notes, EtcUniversity Society, 1908 - 638 pages |
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Page 286 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Page 4 - To these, the striking of the Cathedral clock, and the cawing of the rooks from the Cathedral tower, are like voices of their nursery time. To such as these, it has happened in their dying hours afar off, that they have imagined their chamber floor to be strewn with the autumnal leaves fallen from the elm-trees...
Page i - A pale puffy-faced, dark-haired person of thirty, with big dark eyes that wholly wanted lustre, and a dissatisfied doughy complexion, that seemed to ask to be sent to the baker's, this attendant was a mysterious being, possessed of some strange I,ower over Mr.
Page 359 - He had a scanty flat crop of hair, in colour and consistency like some very mangy yellow fur tippet; it was so unlike hair, that it must have been a wig, but for the stupendous improbability of anybody's voluntarily sporting such a head. The little play of feature that his face presented, was cut deep into it, in a few hard curves that made it more like work; and he had certain notches in his forehead, which looked...