A TALE OF TWO CITIES - 2 - 5

by Charles Dickens in English Moral Stories

A TALE OF TWO CITIES A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By Charles Dickens The Golden Thread (5) The Jackal Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about ...Read Moresuch habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration. The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; Read Less