A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

than any name in France.” “Let us hope so,” said the uncle. “Detestation of the high is the involun ...

Can I separate my father's twin-brother, joint inheritor, and next successor, from himself?” “Death has done ...

“To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is ...

“Yes,” repeated the Marquis. “A Doctor with a daughter. Yes. So commences the new philosophy! You are fatigu ...

banquets, as the starved usually do, and of ease and rest, as the driven slave and the yoked ox may, its lean ...

stones? Had the birds, carrying some grains of it to a distance, dropped one over him as they sow chance see ...

X. Two Promises More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in ...

heaving water and the long, long, dusty roads—the solid stone chateau which had itself become the mere mist ...

kept it so a little while, he said, drawing it back: “Is Lucie the topic?” “She is.” “It is hard for me t ...

“Never.” “It would be ungenerous to affect not to know that your self-denial is to be referred to your ...

and hidden in my heart—if it ever had been there—if it ever could be there—I could not now touch this ...

would outweigh herself and all the world. For which reason, Doctor Manette,” said Darnay, modestly but firmly, “I ...

fixed look when he had ceased to speak, that Darnay felt his own hand turn cold in the hand that ...

as usual. ...

XI. A Companion Picture Sydney,” said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his jackal; “ ...

“And you,” returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, “are such a sensitive and poetical spirit—” “Come ...

in no very soothing tone. “I have no business to be, at all, that I know of,” said Sydney Ca ...

away), and I feel that Miss Manette will tell well in any station, and will always do me credit. S ...

XII. The Fellow of Delicacy Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune ...

It was Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space. He was so much too b ...