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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... wine as it ran ; others , directed by lookers - on up at high win- dows , darted here and three , to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions ; others , devoted them- selves to the sodden and leedyed pieces of ...
... wine as it ran ; others , directed by lookers - on up at high win- dows , darted here and three , to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions ; others , devoted them- selves to the sodden and leedyed pieces of ...
Page 37
... wine - shop was a corner - shop , better than most others in its appear- ance and degree , and the master of the wine - shop had stood outside it , in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches , looking on at the struggle for the lost wine ...
... wine - shop was a corner - shop , better than most others in its appear- ance and degree , and the master of the wine - shop had stood outside it , in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches , looking on at the struggle for the lost wine ...
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... wine - shop was not visible . He was not missed ; for nobody who crossed the threshold looked for him , nobody asked for him , nobody wondered to see only Madame Defarge in her seat , presiding over the distribution of wine , with a ...
... wine - shop was not visible . He was not missed ; for nobody who crossed the threshold looked for him , nobody asked for him , nobody wondered to see only Madame Defarge in her seat , presiding over the distribution of wine , with a ...
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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