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The prison of La Force was a gloomy prison, dark and filthy, and with a horrible smell of foul sleep in it.
second woman being The Vengeance.
Defarge, is an English lady,
Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us
eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace;
all political prisoners had been in danger,
the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped, like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again
he took the lead and direction, and required them as the weak, to trust to him as the strong.
positions of himself and Lucie were reversed,
king was tried, doomed, and beheaded;
Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms;
the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close:
Models of it were worn on breasts from which the Cross was discarded, and it was bowed down to and believed in where the Cross was denied.
Charles had lain in prison one year and three months when the Doctor was thus steady and confident.
Doctor walked among the terrors with a steady head.
Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital
and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims,...
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the exercise of his skill, the appearance and the story of the Bastille Captive remov...
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One year and three months.
Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily,
Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for La Guillotine,
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow,
She lost her colour, and the old and intent expression was a constant, not an occasional, thing; otherwise, she remained very pretty and comely.
"O show me the place, my father, and I will go there every day."
they went together; at other times she was alone;
wood-sawyer,
once been a mender of roads),
"I call myself the Samson of the firewood guillotine.
she always spoke to him first, and often gave him drink-money, which he readily received.
two hours of every day at this place;
Her husband saw her (so she learned from her father) it might be once in five or six times:
wood-sawyer
wood-sawyer hand in hand with The Vengeance.
healthy pastime changed into a means of angering the blood,
showing how warped and perverted all things good
by nature were become.
disjointed time.
"Charles Evremonde, called Darnay!"
every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold.
he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
lowest, cruelest, and worst populace of a city, never without its quantity of low, cruel, and bad, were the directing spirits of the scene: noisily commenting, applauding, disapproving, anticipating,
to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.
he lived by giving instruction in the French language and literature.
He had come back, to save a citizen's life,
Citizen Gabelle was called to confirm it, and did so.
All the voices were in the prisoner's favour, and the President declared him free.
cruel rage.
acquittal pronounced,
tears were shed as freely as blood at another time,
Reddening the snowy streets with the prevailing Republican colour,
