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| - Page 71 - draws on prrior law experience (court reporter); jingle and jangle - lack of respect for law wordings; repetetion of "serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth" - lessens our impression of the King, especially "and so forth"; "otherwise evil-adverbiously" - sort of like "and so forth"; Dickens ridiculing charges brought against Darnay.
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| - Pages 75-76 - Learn that Barsad is financially reckless, dishonest, unrevealing, evades the questions.
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| - Page 109 - "Holiest of Holiests" refers to Jewish temple of the Old Testament, where only the priests could go; chocolate symbol of aristocracy, an elite drink of the time; Monseigneur representative of French aristocracy; chocolate "happy" to be drank by Monseigneur; "sacred passage" - continues deification of Monseigneur.
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