A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

There appearing to be no other door on that floor, and the keeper of the wine- shop going straight to ...

there, and faced round. The garret, built to be a depository for firewood and the like, was dim and dark: for, ...

VI. The Shoemaker Good day!” said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that bent low over ...

“I must bear it, if you let it in.” (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.) The opene ...

The shoemaker looked up as before, but without removing a hand from his work. “Come!” said Defarge. “Here ...

hands the whole time. His eyes came slowly back, at last, to the face from which they had wande ...

have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour. Not a word was spoken, not a sound was ...

Original But not for long. Releasing his arm, she laid her hand upon his shoulder. After looking doubtfully a ...

suddenness. But she sat perfectly still in his grasp, and only said, in a low voice, “I entreat you, good g ...

my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it! Weep for her, then, and for me! Good gen ...

Then, as the darkness closed in, the daughter laid her head down on the hard ground close at the father' ...

again. No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chan ...

The end of the first book. ...

Book the Second—the Golden Thread ...

I. Five Years Later Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand ...

strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-ho ...

on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church o ...

“I was not praying against you; I was praying for you.” “You weren't. And if you were, I won't be took th ...

another, as his father's did, kept the required watch upon his mother. He greatly disturbed that poor ...

mature Jerry bit and spat out straw, while the twinkling eyes of the youthful Jerry were as restlessly wat ...