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a ta l e o f tw o ci t i e s chapter 1 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, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, …

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nd trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. under the guidance of her christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks 4 a ta l e o f tw o ci t i e s which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. it is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of france and norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the woodman, fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in …

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e dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, “in consequence of the fail-ure of his ammunition:” after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the lord mayor of london, was made to stand and deliver on turnham green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in london gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blun-derbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into st. giles’s, to search for contra-band goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way. in the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than …

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with whom this history has business. the dover road lay, as to him, beyond the dover mail, as it lumbered up shooter’s hill. he walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to blackheath. reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with reason; and the team had capitulated and returned to their duty. with drooping heads …

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he side of the mail. all three were wrapped to the cheekbones and over the ears, and wore jack-boots. not one of the three could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes of the body, of his two companions. in those days, trav-ellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a robber or in league with robbers. as to the lat-ter, when every posting-house and ale-house could produce somebody in “the captain’s” pay, ranging from the landlord to the lowest stable non-descript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards. so the guard of the dover mail thought to himself, that friday night in november, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, lumbering up shooter’s …

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a ta l e o f tw o ci t i e s chapter 1 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, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on …

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