A Tale of Two Cities, and Sketches by BozEstes and Lauriat, 1880 - 810 pages |
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Page 111
... husband , the forester . " " What of your husband , the forester ? Always the same with you people . He cannot pay something ? " He has paid all , Monseigneur . He is dead . " " Well ! He is quiet . Can I restore him to you ? " " Alas ...
... husband , the forester . " " What of your husband , the forester ? Always the same with you people . He cannot pay something ? " He has paid all , Monseigneur . He is dead . " " Well ! He is quiet . Can I restore him to you ? " " Alas ...
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... husband's business ? Is it honoring your husband to dishonor his busi- ness ? Is it obeying your husband to disobey him on the wital subject of his business ? " " Youhadn't taken to the dreadful business then , Jerry . " " It's enough ...
... husband's business ? Is it honoring your husband to dishonor his busi- ness ? Is it obeying your husband to disobey him on the wital subject of his business ? " " Youhadn't taken to the dreadful business then , Jerry . " " It's enough ...
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... husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine , while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness , and through the dust , and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside , slowly tending towards that point of the ...
... husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine , while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness , and through the dust , and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside , slowly tending towards that point of the ...
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... husband and wife , came lumbering under the starlight , in their public vehicle , to that gate of Paris whereunto their journey naturally tended . There was the usual stoppage at the barrier guard - house , and the usual lan- terns came ...
... husband and wife , came lumbering under the starlight , in their public vehicle , to that gate of Paris whereunto their journey naturally tended . There was the usual stoppage at the barrier guard - house , and the usual lan- terns came ...
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... husband acknowledged . " You are a little depressed , too , " said madame , whose quick eyes had never been so intent on the accounts , but they had had a ray or two for him . " Oh , the men , the men ! " " But my dear ! " began Defarge ...
... husband acknowledged . " You are a little depressed , too , " said madame , whose quick eyes had never been so intent on the accounts , but they had had a ray or two for him . " Oh , the men , the men ! " " But my dear ! " began Defarge ...
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Page 351 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away.
Page 754 - My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 352 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done ; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Page 52 - 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 the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet Street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing "the House...
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Page 816 - And now the long-forgotten scenes of a misspent life crowded thick and fast upon him. He thought of the time when he had a home — a happy, cheerful home — and of those who peopled it, and flocked about him then, until the forms of his elder...