1 Our booked passenger showed in a moment that it was his name.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail 2 Sometimes it was staring and bewildered, and then it was, "I don't know her."
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows 3 Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker 4 The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 5 In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period 6 Small tradesmen, who did no business whatever, sometimes unaccountably realised large fortunes, and it was remarkable that nobody in the neighbourhood could endure a lamplighter.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation 7 When it was dark, and he sat before the coffee-room fire, awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast, his mind was busily digging, digging, digging, in the live red coals.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation 8 Such a staircase, with its accessories, in the older and more crowded parts of Paris, would be bad enough now; but, at that time, it was vile indeed to unaccustomed and unhardened senses.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 9 With that advice, he wiped his soiled hand upon the joker's dress, such as it was--quite deliberately, as having dirtied the hand on his account; and then recrossed the road and entered the wine-shop.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 10 As to the latter, when every posting-house and ale-house could produce somebody in "the Captain's" pay, ranging from the landlord to the lowest stable non-descript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail 11 This wine-shop keeper was a bull-necked, martial-looking man of thirty, and he should have been of a hot temperament, for, although it was a bitter day, he wore no coat, but carried one slung over his shoulder.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 12 The young forehead lifted itself into that singular expression--but it was pretty and characteristic, besides being singular--and she raised her hand, as if with an involuntary action she caught at, or stayed some passing shadow.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation 13 But this is my father's story, sir; and I begin to think"--the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him--"that when I was left an orphan through my mother's surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation 14 Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 15 Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose, the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was possible to be, the expression deepened itself as she took her seat thoughtfully in the chair by which she had hitherto remained standing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation 16 And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy--cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence--nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 17 I replied to the Bank, sir, that as it was considered necessary, by those who know, and who are so kind as to advise me, that I should go to France, and that as I am an orphan and have no friend who could go with me, I should esteem it highly if I might be permitted to place myself, during the journey, under that worthy gentleman's protection.
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