A Tale of Two Cities

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Macmillan, 1925 - France - 354 pages
 

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Page 348 - Six tumbrils roll along the streets. Change these back again to what they were, thou powerful enchanter, Time, and they shall be seen to be the carriages of absolute monarchs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilettes of flaring...
Page 3 - IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...
Page 49 - TELLSON'S Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness. They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable,...
Page 256 - A revolutionary tribunal in the capital, and forty or fifty thousand revolutionary committees all over the land ; a law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one...

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