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 78
... poor rye where corn should have been , patches of poor peas and beans , patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat . On inanimate nature , as on the men and women who cultivated it , a prevalent tendency to- ward an ...
... poor rye where corn should have been , patches of poor peas and beans , patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat . On inanimate nature , as on the men and women who cultivated it , a prevalent tendency to- ward an ...
Page 80
... poor grass . " " Outside the blinds . Open the face that was. " Monseigneur . For the love of the great God ! My husband , the forester . " " What of your husband , the for- ester ? Always the same with you people . He cannot pay ...
... poor grass . " " Outside the blinds . Open the face that was. " Monseigneur . For the love of the great God ! My husband , the forester . " " What of your husband , the for- ester ? Always the same with you people . He cannot pay ...
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... poor , will profit by my death ; but I do not " Hah ! Evremonde has an assigna- know how that can be , Citizen Evre- tion elsewhere . Lucie , her child . monde . Such a poor weak little crea - glish . This is she ? " ture ! " She , and ...
... poor , will profit by my death ; but I do not " Hah ! Evremonde has an assigna- know how that can be , Citizen Evre- tion elsewhere . Lucie , her child . monde . Such a poor weak little crea - glish . This is she ? " ture ! " She , and ...
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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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