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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 45"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XV The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 44"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XIV The Knitting Done In that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited their fate Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury. Not in the wi...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 43"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XIII Fifty-two In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 42"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XII Darkness Sydney Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go. "At Tellson's banking-house at nine," he said, with a musing face. "Shall I do well, in the mean time, to show myself? I think so....

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 41"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XI Dusk The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 40"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter X The Substance of the Shadow "I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 39"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter IX The Game Made While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 38"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VIII A Hand at Cards Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her way along the narrow streets and crossed the river by the bridge of the Pont-Neuf, reckoning in her mind the number...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 37"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VII A Knock at the Door "I have saved him." It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her. All the air...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 36"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VI Triumph The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prison...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 35"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter V The Wood-Sawyer One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husband's head next day. Every day, through the stony stre...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 34"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter IV Calm in Storm Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well con...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 33"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter III The Shadow One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr. Lorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to imperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emi...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 32"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter II The Grindstone Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was in a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 31"

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By: Charles Dickens Book the Third -- The Track of a Storm Chapter I In Secret The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from England in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. More than eno...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 30"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XXIV Drawn to the Loadstone Rock In such risings of fire and risings of sea--the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the ter...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 29"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XXIII Fire Rises There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the highway such morsels of bread as might serve for pat...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 28"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XXII The Sea Still Rises Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with the relish of fraternal embraces and congr...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 27"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XXI Echoing Footsteps A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound her husband, and her father, and herself, and her...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 26"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XX A Plea When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home many hours, when he presented himself. He was not impro...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 25"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XIX An Opinion Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 24"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XVIII Nine Days The marriage-day was shining brightly, and they were ready outside the closed door of the Doctor's room, where he was speaking with Charles Darnay. They were ready to go to church; the beautiful...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 23"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XVII One Night Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in Soho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat under the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 22"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XVI Still Knitting Madame Defarge and monsieur her 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 mile...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 21"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XV Knitting There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine-shop of Monsieur Defarge. As early as six o'clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces with...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 20"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XIV The Honest Tradesman To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in Fleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented....

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 19"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XIII The Fellow of No Delicacy If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 18"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XII The Fellow of Delicacy Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 17"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter XI A Companion Picture "Sydney," said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his jackal; "mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you." Sydney had been working double tides that nig...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 16"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter X Two Promises More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature. In...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 15"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter IX The Gorgon's Head It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the princi...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 14"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VIII Monseigneur in the Country A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where com should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegeta...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 13"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VII Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, th...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 12"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VI Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had roiled over the tri...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 11"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter V The Jackal Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 10"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter IV Congratulatory From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr....

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 9"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter III A Disappointment Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this corr...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 8"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter II A Sight "You know the Old Bailey, well, no doubt?" said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger. "Ye-es, sir," returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. "I DO know the Bailey." "Just so....

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 7"

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By: Charles Dickens Book the Second -- The Golden Thread Chapter I Five Years Later Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly,...

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"A Tale of Two Cities: Chapter 6"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter VI The Shoemaker "Good day!" said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that bent low over the shoemaking. It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it we...

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