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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... thought he was rather a handsome fellow , and I thought I should have been much the same sort of fellow , if I had had any luck . " Mr. Stryver laughed , till he shook his precocious paunch . " You and your luck , Sydney ! Get to work ...
... thought he was rather a handsome fellow , and I thought I should have been much the same sort of fellow , if I had had any luck . " Mr. Stryver laughed , till he shook his precocious paunch . " You and your luck , Sydney ! Get to work ...
Page 97
... thought would never reproach me again , and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward , that I thought were silent forever . I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh , beginning anew , shaking off sloth and sensuality ...
... thought would never reproach me again , and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward , that I thought were silent forever . I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh , beginning anew , shaking off sloth and sensuality ...
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... thought of Carton . His mind was so full of the others , that he never once thought of him . He had time to finish these letters be- fore the lights were put out . When he lay down on his straw bed he thought he had done with this world ...
... thought of Carton . His mind was so full of the others , that he never once thought of him . He had time to finish these letters be- fore the lights were put out . When he lay down on his straw bed he thought he had done with this world ...
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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