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CHAPTER 3A DisappointmentMR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable...
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CHAPTER 4CongratulatoryFROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was stra...
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CHAPTER 6Hundreds of PeopleTHE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain ...
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CHAPTER 7Monseigneur in TownMONSEIGNEUR, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Mon...
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