A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

When he was gone, and in the course of an evening passed with Miss Pross, the Doctor, and Mr. Lorr ...

upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, “remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he ...

XXI. Echoing Footsteps A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. ...

am called, and I must go!” those were not tears all of agony that wetted his young mother's cheek, ...

and-cheese had quite bloated Mr. Stryver with indignation, which he afterwards turned to account in the training ...

enough. There is positively a mania among some of them for sending it to England.” “That has a ba ...

shrivelled branches of trees in a winter wind: all the fingers convulsively clutching at every we ...

instant he became a cannonier—Defarge of the wine-shop worked like a manful soldier, Two fierce hours. Deep ...

“The Prisoners!” Of all these cries, and ten thousand incoherences, “The Prisoners!” was the cry most taken ...

thickness of walls and arches, the storm within the fortress and without was only audible to them in a dull, ...

The turnkey fired the little pile, which blazed high and hot. Stooping again to come out at the low-arche ...

burst their tomb, were carried high overhead: all scared, all lost, all wondering and amazed, as if the Last ...

XXII. The Sea Still Rises Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften his mod ...

panting, against a background of eager eyes and open mouths, formed outside the door; all those within the ...

Original The men were terrible, in the bloody-minded anger with which they looked from windows, caught ...

suction, that within a quarter of an hour there was not a human creature in Saint Antoine's bosom bu ...

where one of the fatal lamps swung, and there Madame Defarge let him go—as a cat might have done to a mo ...

starved grocer, and the drum was at rest. The drum's was the only voice in Saint Antoine that blood and hurry ...

XXIII. Fire Rises There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads ...

being for the most part too much occupied in thinking how little he had for supper and how much more ...