A Tale of Two Cities And Great Expectations (Oprah's book Club) (2010)
A Tale of Two Cities And Great Expectations (Oprah's book Club)
“But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock.
The judges having to take part in a public demonstration out of doors, the tribunal adjourned. The quick noise and movement of the court’s emptying itself by many passages had not ceased, when Lucie stood stretching out her arms towards her husband, with nothing in her face but lov...e and consolation.
‘If I might touch him! If I might embrace him once! O, good citizens, if you would have so much compassion for us!’ There was but a gaoler left, along with two of the four men who had taken him last night, and Barsad. The people had all poured out to the show in the streets. Barsad proposed to the rest, ‘Let her embrace him, then; it is but a moment.’ It was silently acquiesced in, and they passed her over the seats in the hall to a raised place, where he, by leaning over the dock, could fold her in his arms.MoreLess
The judges having to take part in a public demonstration out of doors, the tribunal adjourned. The quick noise and movement of the court’s emptying itself by many passages had not ceased, when Lucie stood stretching out her arms towards her husband, with nothing in her face but lov...e and consolation.
‘If I might touch him! If I might embrace him once! O, good citizens, if you would have so much compassion for us!’ There was but a gaoler left, along with two of the four men who had taken him last night, and Barsad. The people had all poured out to the show in the streets. Barsad proposed to the rest, ‘Let her embrace him, then; it is but a moment.’ It was silently acquiesced in, and they passed her over the seats in the hall to a raised place, where he, by leaning over the dock, could fold her in his arms.MoreLess
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