A TALE OF TWO CITIES - 2 - 8

by Charles Dickens in English Moral Stories

A TALE OF TWO CITIES A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By Charles Dickens The Golden Thread (8) Monseigneur in the Country A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where ...Read Moreshould have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly--a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away. Monsieur the Marquis in his travelling carriage (which might have been lighter), conducted by Read Less