1 So, the time came for him to bid Lucie good night, and they separated.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night 2 Madame Defarge poured it out for him, took to her knitting again, and hummed a little song over it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 3 He had got somebody to scrawl it up for him, however, who had squeezed Death in with most inappropriate difficulty.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer 4 Her mind pursued them, looking for him among the Condemned; and then she clung closer to his real presence and trembled more.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII. A Knock at the Door 5 So, the sunrise came, and the shadows of the leaves of the plane-tree moved upon his face, as softly as her lips had moved in praying for him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night 6 "You are a little depressed, too," said madame, whose quick eyes had never been so intent on the accounts, but they had had a ray or two for him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 7 For a few seconds he faintly struggled with the man who had come to lay down his life for him; but, within a minute or so, he was stretched insensible on the ground.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII. Fifty-two 8 My father was so reduced that I was afraid to take him out of the air, and I had made a bed for him on the deck near the cabin steps, and I sat on the deck at his side to take care of him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment 9 After some gruff coughing and rubbing of his chin and signing with his hand, Jerry attracted the notice of Mr. Lorry, who had stood up to look for him, and who quietly nodded and sat down again.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight 10 But, though the Doctor tried hard, and never ceased trying, to get Charles Darnay set at liberty, or at least to get him brought to trial, the public current of the time set too strong and fast for him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm 11 He had no idea that this could dwell in the thoughts of his fair young wife; but, when he afterwards joined her in their own rooms, he found her waiting for him with the old pretty lifting of the forehead strongly marked.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX. A Plea 12 No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her with a blameless though an unchanged mind, when she was a wife and a mother, but her children had a strange sympathy with him--an instinctive delicacy of pity for him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 13 A very few French leagues of his journey were accomplished, when Charles Darnay began to perceive that for him along these country roads there was no hope of return until he should have been declared a good citizen at Paris.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret 14 He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so tenderly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises 15 He was so unlike what he had ever shown himself to be, and it was so sad to think how much he had thrown away, and how much he every day kept down and perverted, that Lucie Manette wept mournfully for him as he stood looking back at her.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy 16 He was not missed; for, nobody who crossed the threshold looked for him, nobody asked for him, nobody wondered to see only Madame Defarge in her seat, presiding over the distribution of wine, with a bowl of battered small coins before her, as much defaced and beaten out of their original impress as the small coinage of humanity from whose ragged pockets they had come.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting 17 With an inconsistency as monstrous as anything in this awful nightmare, they had helped the healer, and tended the wounded man with the gentlest solicitude--had made a litter for him and escorted him carefully from the spot--had then caught up their weapons and plunged anew into a butchery so dreadful, that the Doctor had covered his eyes with his hands, and swooned away in the midst of it.
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