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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Page 55
... Never in a debtors ' prison ? Didn't see what that had to do with it . Never in a debtors ' prison ? Come , once again . Never ? Yes . How many times ? Two or three times . Not five or six ? Perhaps . Of what pro- fession ? Gentleman ...
... Never in a debtors ' prison ? Didn't see what that had to do with it . Never in a debtors ' prison ? Come , once again . Never ? Yes . How many times ? Two or three times . Not five or six ? Perhaps . Of what pro- fession ? Gentleman ...
Page 69
... never had , to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain , to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives . He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful ...
... never had , to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain , to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives . He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful ...
Page 116
... never know his father's story ; these perplexed distinctions . " who might even live to weigh the pos- sibility of his father's having disappeared of his own will and act . Whether it was a daughter who would grow to be a woman . " She ...
... never know his father's story ; these perplexed distinctions . " who might even live to weigh the pos- sibility of his father's having disappeared of his own will and act . Whether it was a daughter who would grow to be a woman . " She ...
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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