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ECHOING FOOTSTEPSA wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which ...
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THE SEA STILL RISESHaggard Saint Antoine had only one exultant week in which to soften his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could...
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DRAWN TO THE LOADSTONE ROCKIn such risings of fire and risings of sea—the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb...
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IN SECRETThe traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from England in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-t...
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THE GRINDSTONETellson’s Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was in a wing of a large house, approached by a court-yard and ...
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A Tale of Two Cities-CHAPTER 4 CALM IN STORM
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THE WOOD-SAWYEROne year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her h...
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A Tale of Two Cities-CHAPTER 6 TRIUMPH
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