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Tale of Two Cities III Ch. 13-15
Chapter 13 – Fifty-Two
IN THE BLACK PRISON of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea. Before their cells were quit of them, new occupants were [...]
Read moreTale of Two Cities III Ch. 9-12
Chapter 9 – The Game Made
WHILE SYDNEY CARTON and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesman’s manner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg [...]
Read moreTale of Two Cities III Ch. 5-8
Chapter 5 – The Wood-Sawyer
ONE YEAR and three months. During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husband’s head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; [...]
Read moreTale of Two Cities III Ch. 1-4
Book 3 – The Track of a Storm
Charles Dickens
Chapter 1 – In Secret
THE TRAVELLER fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from England in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad horses, he would have encountered to delay him, [...]
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