A TALE OF TWO CITIES - 2 - 7

by Charles Dickens in English Moral Stories

A TALE OF TWO CITIES A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By Charles Dickens The Golden Thread (7) Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand ...Read Morein Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without. Monseigneur was about to take his chocolate. Monseigneur could swallow a great many things with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly swallowing France; but, his morning's Read Less