1 Thus, Saint Antoine in this vinous feature of his, until midday.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting 2 Every pulse and heart in Saint Antoine was on high-fever strain and at high-fever heat.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 3 It was remarkable; but, the taste of Saint Antoine seemed to be decidedly opposed to a rose on the head-dress of Madame Defarge.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 4 The hour was come, when Saint Antoine was to execute his horrible idea of hoisting up men for lamps to show what he could be and do.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 5 The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 6 Saint Antoine was clamorous to have its wine-shop keeper foremost in the guard upon the governor who had defended the Bastille and shot the people.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 7 For some minutes after he had emerged into the outer presence of Saint Antoine, the husband and wife remained exactly as he had left them, lest he should come back.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 8 Their arrival had lighted a kind of fire in the breast of Saint Antoine, fast spreading as they came along, which stirred and flickered in flames of faces at most doors and windows.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting 9 Saint Antoine had been, that morning, a vast dusky mass of scarecrows heaving to and fro, with frequent gleams of light above the billowy heads, where steel blades and bayonets shone in the sun.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 10 Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody's life, footsteps not easily made clean again if once stained red, the footsteps raging in Saint Antoine afar off, as the little circle sat in the dark London window.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 11 Either Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone, or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappearance; howbeit, the Saint took courage to lounge in, very shortly afterwards, and the wine-shop recovered its habitual aspect.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 12 Saint Antoine's blood was up, and the blood of tyranny and domination by the iron hand was down--down on the steps of the Hotel de Ville where the governor's body lay--down on the sole of the shoe of Madame Defarge where she had trodden on the body to steady it for mutilation.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 13 And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy--cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence--nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop 14 A tremendous roar arose from the throat of Saint Antoine, and a forest of naked arms struggled in the air like shrivelled branches of trees in a winter wind: all the fingers convulsively clutching at every weapon or semblance of a weapon that was thrown up from the depths below, no matter how far off.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 15 The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town 16 Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 17 Seven prisoners released, seven gory heads on pikes, the keys of the accursed fortress of the eight strong towers, some discovered letters and other memorials of prisoners of old time, long dead of broken hearts,--such, and such--like, the loudly echoing footsteps of Saint Antoine escort through the Paris streets in mid-July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
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