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1  I'm a going--as your mother knows--a fishing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
2  You've got a dutiful mother, you have, my son.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
3  Miss Manette, your mother took this course with you.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
4  Whether it had been born alive, or the poor mother's shock had killed it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
5  Of her outward appearance I know no more than that she was like her mother.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
6  My present name, though but slightly changed from my mother's, is not, as you will remember, my own.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
7  Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
8  You know that your parents had no great possession, and that what they had was secured to your mother and to you.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
9  O, sir, at another time you shall know my name, and who my mother was, and who my father, and how I never knew their hard, hard history.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
10  Thus the evening wore away with the Cruncher family, until Young Jerry was ordered to bed, and his mother, laid under similar injunctions, obeyed them.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
11  He greatly disturbed that poor woman at intervals, by darting out of his sleeping closet, where he made his toilet, with a suppressed cry of "You are going to flop, mother."
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
12  In the meantime, his son, whose head was garnished with tenderer spikes, and whose young eyes stood close by one another, as his father's did, kept the required watch upon his mother.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
13  I know that in loving you she sees and loves her mother at her own age, sees and loves you at my age, loves her mother broken-hearted, loves you through your dreadful trial and in your blessed restoration.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
14  If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother, I might have made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
15  But this is my father's story, sir; and I begin to think"--the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him--"that when I was left an orphan through my mother's surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
16  This touched Young Jerry on a tender place; who adjured his mother to perform her first duty, and, whatever else she did or neglected, above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of that maternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his other parent.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
17  Sighs of the winds that blew over a little garden-tomb were mingled with them also, and both were audible to Lucie, in a hushed murmur--like the breathing of a summer sea asleep upon a sandy shore--as the little Lucie, comically studious at the task of the morning, or dressing a doll at her mother's footstool, chattered in the tongues of the Two Cities that were blended in her life.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
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