Subject for March, 2020
I. Five Years Later -1
Subject: Book the Second - the Golden Thread
Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious...
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VI. The Shoemaker – 3
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
“If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to ...
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VI. The Shoemaker – 2
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
“I asked leave to teach myself, and I got it with much difficulty after a long while, and I have made shoes ever since.” As he held out his hand for the shoe that had been taken...
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VI. The Shoemaker – 1
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
Good day!” said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that bent low over the shoemaking. It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutatio...
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V. The Wine-shop – 3
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
At last, the top of the staircase was gained, and they stopped for the third time. There was yet an upper staircase, of a steeper inclination and of contracted dimensions, to be...
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V. The Wine-shop – 2
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
Madame Defarge, his wife, sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in. Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look...
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V. The Wine-shop – 1
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst,...
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IV. The Preparation – 3
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
“Pray,” said Mr. Lorry, in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pr...
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IV. The Preparation – 2
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room,...
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IV. The Preparation – 1
Subject: Book the First - Recalled to Life
When the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his custom was. He did it with some fl...
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