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有声名著之双城记 Chapter04 CHAPTER IV The Preparation 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 flourish of ce

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有声名著之双城记 Chapter02 CHAPTER II The Mail It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business. The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it

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有声名著之双城记 Chapter03 CHAPTER III The Night Shadows Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when enter a great city by night,

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有声名著之双城记 Chapter05 CHAPTER V The Wine-shop A LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the sto

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有声名著之双城记 Chapter06 CHAPTER VI The Shoemaker `GOOD DAY!' said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at he white head that bent low over the shoemaking. It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it we

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CHAPTER XVI Still knitting 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, slo

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER XI A Companion Picture `SYDNEY,' said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his jackal; `mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you.' Sydney had been working double tides that night, and t

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER XII The Fellow of Delicacy MR. STRYVER having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacatio

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER XIII The Fellow of Delicacy IF Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone the house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounge

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER XIV The Honest Tradesman TO the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in Fleet Street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who coul

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER II A Sight `YOU know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?' said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger. `Ye-es, sir,' returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. `I do know the Bailey.' `Just so. And you kno

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER VI Hundreds of People THE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street- corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER XV Knitting THERE had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine shop of Monsieur Defarge. As early as six o'clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces within, bend

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有声名著之双城记 BOOK THE SECOND THE GOLDEN THREAD CHAPTER I Five Years Later 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 incomm

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER III A Disappointment MR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this corresponden

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER IV Congratulatory FROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, t

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER V The Jackal THOSE were drinking days, and moot men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would sw

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER VI Hundreds of People THE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for t

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有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER VIII Monseigneur in the Country A BEAUTIFUL landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable sub

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CHAPTER IX The Gorgon's Head IT was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone court-yard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony business alt