A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

IV. Congratulatory From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that ...

that account.” “You have laid me under an obligation to you for life—in two senses,” said his late clien ...

robing-room. Another person, who had not joined the group, or interchanged a word with any one of them, but wh ...

stones?” “I hardly seem yet,” returned Charles Darnay, “to belong to this world again.” “I don't wonder at ...

his glass over his shoulder against the wall, where it shivered to pieces; then, rang the bell, and ordere ...

“Think? You know I have been drinking.” “Since I must say so, I know it.” “Then you shall likewise ...

V. The Jackal Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time ...

never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in ...

Sullenly enough, the jackal loosened his dress, went into an adjoining room, and came back with a la ...

Every question told.” “I always am sound; am I not?” “I don't gainsay it. What has roughened your temper? ...

“Upon my soul, I am not sure that it was not yours. You were always driving and riving and shouldering and ...

Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment, and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of ...

VI. Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from S ...

which was shunned by all of them at night. In a building at the back, attainable by a courtyard where a ...

delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so exp ...

“Really, is bad enough,” returned Miss Pross, “but better. Yes, I am very much put out.” “May I a ...

such an exalted respect for it, that in the retributive arrangements made by his own mind—we all make such ...

“Now don't be angry at my asking all these questions; because I am a mere dull man of business, and you ...

perception of the pain of being monotonously haunted by one sad idea, in her repetition of the phrase, walking ...

of Gaul, she had acquired such wonderful arts, that the woman and girl who formed the staff of domestic ...