1 "Worth no more than that," repeated Mr. Cruncher.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 2 Mr. Cruncher's temper was not at all improved when he came to his breakfast.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 3 Mr. Cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 4 Mr. Cruncher had by this time taken quite a lunch of rust off his fingers in his following of the evidence.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment 5 Mr. Cruncher, sitting on a stool in a public place, but not being a poet, mused as little as possible, and looked about him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman 6 Mr. Cruncher's attention was here diverted to the door-keeper, whom he saw making his way to Mr. Lorry, with the note in his hand.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight 7 On this post of his, Mr. Cruncher was as well known to Fleet-street and the Temple, as the Bar itself,--and was almost as in-looking.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 8 Mr. Cruncher did not assist at the closing sports, but had remained behind in the churchyard, to confer and condole with the undertakers.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman 9 Funerals had at all times a remarkable attraction for Mr. Cruncher; he always pricked up his senses, and became excited, when a funeral passed Tellson's.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman 10 Looking that way, Mr. Cruncher made out that some kind of funeral was coming along, and that there was popular objection to this funeral, which engendered uproar.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman 11 Mr. Cruncher's apartments were not in a savoury neighbourhood, and were but two in number, even if a closet with a single pane of glass in it might be counted as one.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 12 The scene was Mr. Cruncher's private lodging in Hanging-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 13 Brief as such companionship was in every separate instance, Mr. Cruncher never failed to become so interested in the lady as to express a strong desire to have the honour of drinking her very good health.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman 14 With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who has for several centuries been on duty watching one stream--saving that Jerry had no expectation of their ever running dry.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman 15 It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later 16 Mr. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney-General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment 17 Mr. Lorry sat at a table, among the gentlemen in wigs: not far from a wigged gentleman, the prisoner's counsel, who had a great bundle of papers before him: and nearly opposite another wigged gentleman with his hands in his pockets, whose whole attention, when Mr. Cruncher looked at him then or afterwards, seemed to be concentrated on the ceiling of the court.
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