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" After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if... "
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens - 1859
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Works. Libr. ed, Volume 23

Charles Dickens - 1861 - 448 pages
...Tellson's wanted no embellishment. Noakes and Co.'s might, or Snooks Brothers' might ; but Telleon's, thank Heaven ! Any one of these partners would have...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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A tale of two cities

Charles Dickens - 1866 - 398 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set ...

Charles Dickens - 1868 - 262 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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The Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Characters and Principal ..., Volume 30

Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pages
...embellishments. Noakes and Co. 's might; or Snooks Brothers' might : but Tellson's, thank Heaven !— . . . After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with...counters, where the oldest of men made your check ehake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined your siguature by the dinglest of windows, whleh...
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A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant "? 1873 h . cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined your signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens - 1880 - 460 pages
...long been highly objectionable, but were only the more respectable. perfection of inconvenience. Mter bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places ...

George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...occasionally passing into caricature : — " Thus it had come to pass that Tclson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a...'obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Telson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop with two little counters,...
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The Works of Charles Dickens: In Thirty Volumes, Volume 11

Charles Dickens - 1881 - 500 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

Charles Dickens - 1885 - 930 pages
...objectionable, but were only the more respectable. Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People

Charles Dickens - 1884 - 930 pages
...come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting VOL I 4 open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle...little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows,...
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