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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... heard , he fancied they would never ap- proach . Not only would the echoes die away , as though the steps had gone ; but echoes of other steps that never came , would be heard in their stead , and would die away for good when they ...
... heard , he fancied they would never ap- proach . Not only would the echoes die away , as though the steps had gone ; but echoes of other steps that never came , would be heard in their stead , and would die away for good when they ...
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... heard of me ? " " My wife came to your house to re- claim her father ? Yes ! " The word " wife " seemed to serve as a gloomy reminder to Citizen Defarge , to say with sudden impatience , " In the name of that sharp female newly born and ...
... heard of me ? " " My wife came to your house to re- claim her father ? Yes ! " The word " wife " seemed to serve as a gloomy reminder to Citizen Defarge , to say with sudden impatience , " In the name of that sharp female newly born and ...
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... heard the fall of hearth like a man who had done with the axe in that sound . " " If any of these men , or all of these men , were disposed to spare him - which is a large supposition ; for what is his life , or any man's to them ! -I ...
... heard the fall of hearth like a man who had done with the axe in that sound . " " If any of these men , or all of these men , were disposed to spare him - which is a large supposition ; for what is his life , or any man's to them ! -I ...
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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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