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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... turned upon him , turned to them . The spectators saw in the two figures , a young lady of little more than twenty , and a gentleman who was evidently her father ; a man of a very remarkable appearance in respect of the absolute ...
... turned upon him , turned to them . The spectators saw in the two figures , a young lady of little more than twenty , and a gentleman who was evidently her father ; a man of a very remarkable appearance in respect of the absolute ...
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... turned and turned with nothing to bite , Monseigneur began to run away from a phenomenon so slow and unaccountable . But , this was not the change on the village , and on many a village like it . For scores of years gone by , Monseig ...
... turned and turned with nothing to bite , Monseigneur began to run away from a phenomenon so slow and unaccountable . But , this was not the change on the village , and on many a village like it . For scores of years gone by , Monseig ...
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... turned . Before the door was opened , or as it opened , a man said in a low " He has never seen voice , in English : me here ; I have kept out of his way . Go you in alone ; I wait near . Lose no time . " high it was from the ground ...
... turned . Before the door was opened , or as it opened , a man said in a low " He has never seen voice , in English : me here ; I have kept out of his way . Go you in alone ; I wait near . Lose no time . " high it was from the ground ...
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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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