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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... stopped when the coach stopped , and they kept close company with it . If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness , he would have put himself in a fair way of ...
... stopped when the coach stopped , and they kept close company with it . If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness , he would have put himself in a fair way of ...
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... stopped then , for any thing less necessary than breath , it being a spectral sort of race that he ran , and one highly desirable to get to the end of . He had a strong idea that " It's enough for you , " retorted Mr. the coffin he had ...
... stopped then , for any thing less necessary than breath , it being a spectral sort of race that he ran , and one highly desirable to get to the end of . He had a strong idea that " It's enough for you , " retorted Mr. the coffin he had ...
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... stopped in its work . " But it's not my business ! " he would generally say at those times , and briskly fall to his sawing again . In all weathers , in the snow and frosts of winter , in the bitter winds of spring , in the hot sunshine ...
... stopped in its work . " But it's not my business ! " he would generally say at those times , and briskly fall to his sawing again . In all weathers , in the snow and frosts of winter , in the bitter winds of spring , in the hot sunshine ...
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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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