❧  Sydney Carton’s Sacrifice

Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens I How Lucie Found A Father II Darnay Caught In The Net III SYDNEY CARTON’S SACRIFICE That same night of his release all the happiness of Darnay and Lucie was suddenly broken. Soldiers came and again arrested him. Defarge and his wife were the accusers [...]

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❧  Darnay Caught In The Net

Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens I  How Lucie Found A Father III Sydney Carton’s Sacrifice II DARNAY CAUGHT IN THE NET While these things were happening in London, the one city of this tale, other very different events were occurring in the other city of the story—Paris, the French capital. [...]

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❧  The Black Cat

The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe Page 2    Page 1 This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil—and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own—yes, even in this felon’s cell, I am almost ashamed to own—that the terror and horror [...]

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❧  The Black Cat

The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am I not—and very surely do I [...]

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