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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... strong resolution and a set pur- pose ; a man not desirable to be met , rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side , for nothing would turn the man . Madame Defarge , his wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came ...
... strong resolution and a set pur- pose ; a man not desirable to be met , rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side , for nothing would turn the man . Madame Defarge , his wife , sat in the shop behind the counter as he came ...
Page 144
... strong care of them till I come back . " Charles toward it . He left his two letters with Darnay shook his head and doubtfully smiled , as the carriage rolled away . That night it was the fourteenth of August he sat up late , and wrote ...
... strong care of them till I come back . " Charles toward it . He left his two letters with Darnay shook his head and doubtfully smiled , as the carriage rolled away . That night it was the fourteenth of August he sat up late , and wrote ...
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... strong men besides the cook in question . Monseigneur gone , and the three strong men absolving themselves from the sin of having drawn his high wages , by being more than ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning ...
... strong men besides the cook in question . Monseigneur gone , and the three strong men absolving themselves from the sin of having drawn his high wages , by being more than ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning ...
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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