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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
