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A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter VII

A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter VII
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 incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.

A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter VI

A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter VI
The Shoemaker
“GOOD day!” said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the 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 were at a distance:“Good day!”“You are still hard at work, I see?”
 

A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter V

A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter V
The Wine-Shop
A LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the 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 stones just outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.

A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter IV

A Tale of Two Cities
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 ceremony, for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous traveller upon.

A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter III

A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter III
The Night Shadows
A WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter II

A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter IIThe 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 lumbered up Shooter’s Hill.

A Tale of Two Cities - Chapter I

A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter I
The Period
IT was the best of times,IT was the worst of times,It was the age of wisdom,It was the age of foolishness,

Mark Twain - Following the Equator - Chapter LXX - THE END

Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter LXX
THE END
 
Table Rock—Table Bay—The Castle—Government and Parliament—The Club—Dutch Mansions and their Hospitality—Dr. John Barry and his Doings—On the Ship Norman—Madeira—Arrived in Southampton

Mark Twain - Following the Equator - Chapter LXIX

Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter LXIX
 
An Absorbing Novelty—The Kimberley Diamond Mines—Discovery of Diamonds—The Wronged Stranger—Where the Gems Are—A Judicious Change of Boundary—Modern Machinery and Appliances—Thrilling Excitement in Finding a Diamond—Testing a Diamond—Fences—Deep Mining by Natives in the Compound—Stealing—Reward for the Biggest Diamond—A Fortune in Wine—The Great Diamond—Office of the De Beer Co.—Sorting the Gems—Cape Town—The Most Imposing Man in British Provinces—Various Reasons for his Supremacy—How He Makes Friends

Mark Twain - Following the Equator - Chapter LXVIII

Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter LXVIII
 
Judicious Mr. Rhodes—What South Africa Consists of—Johannesburg—The Gold Mines—The Heaven of American Engineers—What the Author Knows about Mining—Description of the Boer—What Should be Expected of Him—What Was A Dizzy Jump for Rhodes—Taxes—Rhodesian Method of Reducing Native Population—Journeying in Cape Colony—The Cars—The Country—The Weather—Tamed Blacks—Familiar Figures in King William's Town—Boer Dress—Boer Country Life—Sleeping Accommodations—The Reformers in Boer Prison—Torturing a Black Prisoner