Charles Dickens' Works: Christmas books. Tale of two citiesG.W. Carleton, 1885 |
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... Carton , who had so long sat looking at the ceiling of the court , changed neither his place nor his attitude , even in his ex- citement . While his learned friend , Mr. Stryver , massing his papers before him , whispered with those who ...
... Carton , who had so long sat looking at the ceiling of the court , changed neither his place nor his attitude , even in his ex- citement . While his learned friend , Mr. Stryver , massing his papers before him , whispered with those who ...
Page 445
... Carton came up at the moment , and touched Mr. Lorry on the arm . " How is the young lady ? " " She is greatly distressed ; but her father is comforting her , and she feels the better for being out of court . ” " I'll tell the prisoner ...
... Carton came up at the moment , and touched Mr. Lorry on the arm . " How is the young lady ? " " She is greatly distressed ; but her father is comforting her , and she feels the better for being out of court . ” " I'll tell the prisoner ...
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... Carton , he always had his points at his fingers ' ends in the morning . Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men , was Stryver's great ally . What the two drank together , between Hilary Term and Michaelmas , might have ...
... Carton , he always had his points at his fingers ' ends in the morning . Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men , was Stryver's great ally . What the two drank together , between Hilary Term and Michaelmas , might have ...
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... Carton , ” said his friend , squaring himself at him with a bullying air , as if the fire - grate had been the furnace in which sustained endeavour was forged , and the one delicate thing to be done for the old Sydney Carton of old ...
... Carton , ” said his friend , squaring himself at him with a bullying air , as if the fire - grate had been the furnace in which sustained endeavour was forged , and the one delicate thing to be done for the old Sydney Carton of old ...
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... Carton . At this , he laughed again , and they both laughed . " Before Shrewsbury , and at Shrewsbury , and ever since Shrewsbury , " pursued Carton , " you have fallen into your rank , and I have fallen into mine . Even when we were ...
... Carton . At this , he laughed again , and they both laughed . " Before Shrewsbury , and at Shrewsbury , and ever since Shrewsbury , " pursued Carton , " you have fallen into your rank , and I have fallen into mine . Even when we were ...
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Page 46 - At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the fire.
Page 10 - ... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below 'them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Page 43 - ... to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable parks. And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own ; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and...
Page 45 - Miss Belinda sweetened up the applesauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons...
Page 46 - ... of chestnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass. Two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle. These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed — "A Merry Christmas to us all,...
Page 10 - Out upon merry Christmas ! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money ; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer ; a time for balancing your books, and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you ? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas...
Page 69 - I don't know what to do!' cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
Page 43 - ... of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks.
Page 46 - God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all. He sat very close to his father's side, upon his little stool. Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him. "Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live.
Page 7 - Marley was as dead as a doornail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.