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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charles_Dickens-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-With_Illustrations_by_H_K_Browne%2C_1859.jpg/244px-Charles_Dickens-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-With_Illustrations_by_H_K_Browne%2C_1859.jpg" decoding="async" width="244" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charles_Dickens-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-With_Illustrations_by_H_K_Browne%2C_1859.jpg/366px-Charles_Dickens-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-With_Illustrations_by_H_K_Browne%2C_1859.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charles_Dickens-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-With_Illustrations_by_H_K_Browne%2C_1859.jpg/488px-Charles_Dickens-_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-With_Illustrations_by_H_K_Browne%2C_1859.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2699" data-file-height="2330" /></a><figcaption>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities" class="extiw" title="w:A Tale of Two Cities">A Tale of Two Cities</a></b></i> (1859) is a historical novel by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>. The plot centres on the years leading up to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution" class="extiw" title="w:French Revolution">French Revolution</a> and culminates in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_Club" class="extiw" title="w:Jacobin Club">Jacobin</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror" class="extiw" title="w:Reign of Terror">Reign of Terror</a>. Set in London and Paris, it tells the story of two men, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darnay" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Darnay">Charles Darnay</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Carton" class="extiw" title="w:Sydney Carton">Sydney Carton</a>, who look similar but are very different in traits. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book_I_-_Recalled_to_Life">Book I - Recalled to Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Book I - Recalled to Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_I_-_The_Period">Chapter I - The Period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Chapter I - The Period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.</b></li> <li><b>France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-h/98-h.htm#link2H_4_0002">Book the First—Recalled to Life</a>. Project Gutenberg.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_II_-_The_Mail">Chapter II - The Mail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Chapter II - The Mail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Dover">Dover</a> mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.</li></ul> <ul><li>Keep where you are because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime. <ul><li>Said by a guard</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For I'm the devil at quick mistakes, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.</li></ul> <ul><li>"Did you hear the message?"<br />"I did, Joe."<br />"What did you make of it, Tom?"<br />"Nothing at all, Joe."<br />"That's a coincidence, too," the guard mused, "for I made the same of it myself."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_III_-_The_Night_Shadows">Chapter III - The Night Shadows</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Chapter III - The Night Shadows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!</b> Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page. It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore. <b>My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_IV_-_The_Preparation">Chapter IV - The Preparation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Chapter IV - The Preparation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg/220px-Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg/330px-Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg/440px-Cliffs_of_Dover.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at <a href="/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="White Cliffs of Dover">the cliffs</a>, and brought the coast down, madly.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:T2C,_Fred_Barnard,_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_(I,4).jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/T2C%2C_Fred_Barnard%2C_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_%28I%2C4%29.jpeg/220px-T2C%2C_Fred_Barnard%2C_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_%28I%2C4%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/T2C%2C_Fred_Barnard%2C_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_%28I%2C4%29.jpeg/330px-T2C%2C_Fred_Barnard%2C_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_%28I%2C4%29.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/T2C%2C_Fred_Barnard%2C_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_%28I%2C4%29.jpeg/440px-T2C%2C_Fred_Barnard%2C_Lucie_meets_Javis_Lorry_%28I%2C4%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="556" /></a><figcaption>These are mere business relations, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_Manette" class="extiw" title="w:Lucie Manette">miss</a>; there is no friendship in them, no particular interest, nothing like sentiment. ... I have no feelings; I am a mere machine. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarvis Lorry">Jarvis Lorry</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.</li></ul> <ul><li>The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at <a href="/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="White Cliffs of Dover">the cliffs</a>, and brought the coast down, madly.</li></ul> <ul><li>These are mere business relations, miss; there is no friendship in them, no particular interest, nothing like sentiment. I have passed from one to another, in the course of my business life, just as I pass from one of our customers to another in the course of my business day; in short, I have no feelings; I am a mere machine. To go on... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarvis Lorry">Jarvis Lorry</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_Manette" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lucie Manette">Lucie Manette</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Feelings! I have no time for them, no chance of them. I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarvis Lorry">Jarvis Lorry</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A matter of business. Regard it as a matter of business — business that must be done. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarvis Lorry">Jarvis Lorry</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The best and the worst are known to you, now. You are well on your way to the poor wronged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Manette" class="extiw" title="w:Alexandre Manette">gentleman</a>, and, with a fair sea voyage, and a fair land journey, you will be soon at his dear side. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarvis Lorry">Jarvis Lorry</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_Manette" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lucie Manette">Lucie Manette</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_V_-_The_Wine-shop">Chapter V - The Wine-shop</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Chapter V - The Wine-shop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a>-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.</li></ul> <dl><dd>All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers. Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mud-embankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted fragments with eager relish. There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.</dd> <dd>A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices—voices of <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a>—resounded in the street while this wine game lasted. There was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness. There was a special companionship in it, an observable inclination on the part of every one to join some other one, which led, especially among the luckier or lighter-hearted, to frolicsome embraces, drinking of healths, shaking of hands, and even joining of hands and dancing, a dozen together. When the wine was gone, and the places where it had been most abundant were raked into a gridiron-pattern by fingers, these demonstrations ceased, as suddenly as they had broken out. The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting, set it in motion again; the women who had left on a door-step the little pot of hot ashes, at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it; men with bare arms, matted locks, and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away, to descend again; and a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more natural to it than sunshine.</dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:T2C,_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_(John_McLenan).jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/T2C%2C_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_%28John_McLenan%29.jpeg/220px-T2C%2C_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_%28John_McLenan%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/T2C%2C_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_%28John_McLenan%29.jpeg/330px-T2C%2C_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_%28John_McLenan%29.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/T2C%2C_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_%28John_McLenan%29.jpeg/440px-T2C%2C_Scrawling_%27BLOOD%27_on_the_Wall_%28John_McLenan%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="576" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/BLOOD" class="mw-redirect" title="BLOOD">BLOOD</a>. The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>One tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees — <b><a href="/wiki/BLOOD" class="mw-redirect" title="BLOOD">BLOOD</a>. The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dickens.stanford.edu/dickens/archive/tale/issue2_allusions.html">the fabulous mill which ground old people young</a>, shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook. The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds <a href="/wiki/Young" class="mw-redirect" title="Young">young</a> people <a href="/wiki/Old" class="mw-redirect" title="Old">old</a>; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, <b><a href="/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">Hunger</a>. It was prevalent everywhere.</b> Hunger was pushed out of the tall <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">houses</a>, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and stared up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale. Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.</li></ul> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Beautiful" class="mw-redirect" title="Beautiful">beautiful</a> <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> we live in, when it IS possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done—done, see you!—under that <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a> there, every day. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king!" class="extiw" title="w:The king is dead, long live the king!">Long live the</a> <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">Devil</a>. Let us go on. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Defarge" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ernest Defarge">Ernest Defarge</a> to <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarvis Lorry">Jarvis Lorry</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_VI_-_The_Shoemaker">Chapter VI - The Shoemaker</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Chapter VI - The Shoemaker"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"If you hear my voice — I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is — if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it! If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book_II_-_The_Golden_Thread">Book II - The Golden Thread</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Book II - The Golden Thread"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_I_-_Five_Years_Later">Chapter I - Five Years Later</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Chapter I - Five Years Later"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the triumphant perfection of inconvenience. After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar. If your business necessitated your seeing "the House," you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight. Your money came out of, or went into, wormy old wooden drawers, particles of which flew up your nose and down your throat when they were opened and shut. Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again. Your plate was stowed away among the neighbouring cesspools, and evil communications corrupted its good polish in a day or two.</li></ul> <ul><li>But indeed, at that time, putting to death was a recipe much in vogue with all trades and professions, and not least of all with Tellson's. <b>Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and why not Legislation's?</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_V_-_The_Jackal">Chapter V - The Jackal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Chapter V - The Jackal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment, and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.</li></ul> <ul><li>Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_IX_-_The_Gorgon's_Head"><span id="Chapter_IX_-_The_Gorgon.27s_Head"></span>Chapter IX - The Gorgon's Head</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Chapter IX - The Gorgon's Head"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<b>Repression is the only lasting philosophy.</b> The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof," looking up to it, "shuts out the sky."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XIII_-_The_Fellow_of_No_Delicacy">Chapter XIII - The Fellow of No Delicacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Chapter XIII - The Fellow of No Delicacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If you will hear me through a very little more, all you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Carton" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sydney Carton">Sydney Carton</a></li></ul></li> <li>O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Carton" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sydney Carton">Sydney Carton</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XVI_-_Still_Knitting">Chapter XVI - Still Knitting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Chapter XVI - Still Knitting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well — thousands of acres of land — a whole province of France — all France itself — lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hair-breadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XVII_-_One_Night">Chapter XVII - One Night</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Chapter XVII - One Night"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Into his handsome face, the bitter waters of captivity had worn; but, he covered up their tracks with a determination so strong, that he held the mastery of them even in his sleep. A more remarkable face in its quiet, resolute, and guarded struggle with an unseen assailant, was not to be beheld in all the wide dominions of sleep, that night.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XIX_-_An_Opinion">Chapter XIX - An Opinion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Chapter XIX - An Opinion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed [hiding Dr Manette's shoe-making bench] and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XX_-_A_Plea">Chapter XX - A Plea</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Chapter XX - A Plea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding."<br />"It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong. I never thought this of him."<br />"My husband, it is so. I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now. But, I am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things."<br />She looked so beautiful in the purity of her faith in this lost man, that her husband could have looked at her as she was for hours.<br />"And, O my dearest Love!" she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, "<b>remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!</b>" <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie_Manette" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lucie Manette">Lucie Manette</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darnay" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Charles Darnay">Charles Darnay</a>, speaking of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Carton" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sydney Carton">Sydney Carton</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XXI_-_Echoing_Footsteps">Chapter XXI - Echoing Footsteps</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Chapter XXI - Echoing Footsteps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. One drawbridge down! "Work, comrades all, work! Work, Jacques One, Jacques Two, Jacques One Thousand, Jacques Two Thousand; in the name of all the angels or the devils — which you prefer — work!"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XXIV_-_Drawn_to_the_Loadstone_Rock">Chapter XXIV - Drawn to the Loadstone Rock</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Chapter XXIV - Drawn to the Loadstone Rock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It was too much the way of Monseigneur under his reverses as a refugee, and it was much too much the way of native British orthodoxy <b>to talk of this terrible Revolution as if it were the one [and] only harvest ever known under the skies that had not been sown</b>—as if nothing had ever been done, or omitted to be done, that had led to it—as if observers of the wretched millions in France, and of the misused and perverted resources that should have made them prosperous, had not seen it inevitably coming years before, and had not in plain words recorded what they saw. Such vapouring, combined with the extravagant plots of Monseigneur for the restoration of a state of things that had utterly exhausted itself, and worn out Heaven and earth as well as itself, was hard to be endured without some remonstrance by any sane man who knew the truth.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book_III_-_The_Track_of_a_Storm">Book III - The Track of a Storm</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Book III - The Track of a Storm"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_V_-_The_Wood-Sawyer">Chapter V - The Wood-Sawyer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Chapter V - The Wood-Sawyer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cellars of the loathsome prisons, and carried to her through the streets to slake her devouring thirst. <b>Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_X_-_The_Substance_of_the_Shadow">Chapter X - The Substance of the Shadow</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Chapter X - The Substance of the Shadow"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"I, Alexander Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year 1767. I write it at stolen intervals, under every difficulty. I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it. Some pitying hand may find it there, when I and my sorrows are dust."</li></ul> <ul><li>"'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings — taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the doors barred and the shutters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from us — I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us <b>it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out!'"</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XI_-_Dusk">Chapter XI - Dusk</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Chapter XI - Dusk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XII_-_Darkness">Chapter XII - Darkness</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Chapter XII - Darkness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Defarge, a weak minority interposed a few words for the memory of the compassionate wife of the Marquis; but only elicited from his own wife a repetition of her last reply. "Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me!"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XIII_-_Fifty-two">Chapter XIII - Fifty-two</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Chapter XIII - Fifty-two"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XIV_-_The_Knitting_Done">Chapter XIV - The Knitting Done</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Chapter XIV - The Knitting Done"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman."</li></ul> <ul><li>It was nothing to her [Madame Defarge, a Republican], that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him, but them. It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punishment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such he had no right to live.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapter_XV_-_The_Footsteps_Die_Out_For_Ever">Chapter XV - The Footsteps Die Out For Ever</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Tale_of_Two_Cities&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Chapter XV - The Footsteps Die Out For Ever"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg/220px-CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg/330px-CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg/440px-CC_No_06_A_Tale_of_Two_Cities.jpg 2x" data-file-width="452" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.</li></ul> <ul><li>"Do you think:" the uncomplaining eyes in which there is so much endurance, fill with tears, and the lips part a little more and tremble: "that it will seem long to me, while I wait for her in the better land where I trust both you and I will be mercifully sheltered?"<br />"It cannot be, my child; there is no Time there, and no trouble there."</li></ul> <ul><li>I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.</li></ul> <ul><li>I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more.</li></ul> <ul><li>I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.</li></ul> <ul><li>I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place— then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement— and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.</b> <ul><li>Note: These closing lines bring Dickens' motif of doubles into the story one last time. Dickens uses the literary device <i>anaphora</i>, which is the repetition of a word or phrase over many lines (doubles), many times throughout <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>. "It is a far, far better..." is repeated twice in these parting lines, as "It was the ____ of times, it was the epoch of _____," etc. is repeated in the opening lines. This motif of doubles makes up the entire plot of the novel: the two main characters, Darnay and Carton are doubles of each other; London and Paris are the 'two cities' to which the title refers. 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