A Tale of Two CitiesT.B.Peterson and brothers, 1859 Presents Dickens' classic novel of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution. During the French Revolution a sissolute English lawyer goes to th eguillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves. |
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... Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone , or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappearance ; howbeit , the Saint took courage to lounge in , very shortly afterward , and the wine - shop ...
... Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone , or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappearance ; howbeit , the Saint took courage to lounge in , very shortly afterward , and the wine - shop ...
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... Saint An- toine escort through the Paris streets in mid - July , one thousand seven hun- dred and eighty - nine . Now , Heaven defeat the fancy of Lucy Darnay , and keep these feet far out of her life ! For , they are headlong , mad ...
... Saint An- toine escort through the Paris streets in mid - July , one thousand seven hun- dred and eighty - nine . Now , Heaven defeat the fancy of Lucy Darnay , and keep these feet far out of her life ! For , they are headlong , mad ...
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... Saint An- toine to dance at the sight of . Nor was this the end of the day's bad work , for Saint Antoine so shouted and danced his angry blood up , that it boiled again , on hearing when the day closed in that the son - in - law of the ...
... Saint An- toine to dance at the sight of . Nor was this the end of the day's bad work , for Saint Antoine so shouted and danced his angry blood up , that it boiled again , on hearing when the day closed in that the son - in - law of the ...
Contents
RECALLED TO LIFE I The Period CHAPTER | 23 |
The Mail | 24 |
THE FIGURES OF A HORSE AND RIDER CAME SLOWLY THROUGH THE EDDYING MIST | 26 |
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