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...
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...
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...
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...
有声名著之双城记 CHAPTER X Two Promises MORE months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature. In this ag...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...