English: Tale of Two Cities- Chapter 9-24 (Book 2) + Chapter (Book 3)

I well understand that, without you, I could have no hope. I well understand that, even if Miss Manette held me at this moment in her innocent heart—do not think I have the presumption to assume so much—I could retain no place in it against her love for her father.

Darnay

I will do so. Do you start for Pari from here?

Darnay

I wish I were going myself

Darnay

I wish it, that I may the better deserve your confidence, and have no secret from you

Darnay

I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin!

Darnay

I would not ask that word, to save my life

Darnay

If it ever becomes mine, it shall be put into some hands better qualified to free it slowly (if such a thing is possible) from the weight that drags it down, so that the miserable people who cannot leave it and who have been long wrung to the last point of endurance, may, in another generation, suffer less; but it is not for me. There is a curse on it, and on all this land

Darnay

If it was a light answer, I beg your forgiveness for it. I had no other object than to turn a light thing, which, to my surprise, seems to trouble you too much, aside. I declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long dismissed it from my mind.

Darnay

If you do know it, it is enough. What would you have me do, my Life?

Darnay

In effect, sir, I believe it to be at once your bad fortune, and my good fortune, that has kept me out of prison in France here

Darnay

In this prison that I am going to so unjustly, shall I have some free communication with the world outside?

Darnay

Indeed I am lost here. All here is so unprecedented, so changed, so sudden and unfair, that I am absolutely lost. Will you render me a little help?

Darnay

Indeed, sir, for anything I know, you may have expressly worked to give a more suspicious appearance to the suspicious circumstances that surrounded me

Darnay

It is a tone of fervent admiration, true homage, and deep love, Doctor Manette!

Darnay

It is of the utmost importance to me (you know, Citizen, even better than I, of how much importance), that I should be able to communicate to Mr. Lorry of Tellson's Bank, an English gentleman who is now in Paris, the simple fact, without comment, that I have been thrown into the prison of La Force. Will you cause that to be done for me?

Darnay

It is painful reflection to me, that I should have done him any wrong. I never thought this of him

Darnay

It is, that if Miss Manette should bring to you at any time, on her own part, such a confidence as I have ventured to lay before you, you will bear testimony to what I have said, and to your belief in it.

Darnay

May I ask, sir, if you think she is-

Darnay

My dear Mr. Lorry, it is because I am a Frenchman born, that the thought (which I did not mean to utter here, however) has passed through my mind often. One cannot help thinking, having had some sympathy for the miserable people, and having abandoned something to them,

Darnay

My wife came to your house to reclaim her father? Yes!

Darnay

No, dear Doctor Manette. Like you, a voluntary exile from France; like you, driven from it by its distractions, oppressions, and miseries

Darnay

Not at all. Though it is to a prisoner in the Abbaye

Darnay

Not even so. I might not have the hopefulness to do it for weeks; I might (mistaken or not mistaken) have that hopefulness to-morrow

Darnay

Not that sir! Le that be! I adjure you, do not recall that!

Darnay

Not to divide with Lucie her privilege as your child, companion, and friend; but to come in aid of it, and bind her closer to you, if such a thing can be

Darnay

Now I am left, as if I were dead. And here in these crawling creatures is the first condition of the body after death

Darnay

On the contrary; I come direct

Darnay

Our family; our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways. Even in my father's time, we did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us and our pleasure, whatever it was

Darnay

Seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain

Darnay

Simply, 'that he has received the letter, and will come.

Darnay

Sir, we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong

Darnay

Still, you know how gloomy and threatening the sky is

Darnay

The condition on which I ask it, and which you have an undoubted right to require, I will observe immediately

Darnay

The ghostlike figures that disappeared when the gate was closed. There was one woman in black among them, leaning in the window. There was light shining on her golden hair, and she looked like —— Let's ride on again, for God's sake, through the lit-up villages when all the people are awake! —— He made shoes, he made shoes, he made shoes. —— Five paces by four and a half.

Darnay

There is not, a face I can look at in all this country round about us, which looks at me with any deference on it but the dark deference of fear and slavery

Darnay

This property and France are lost to me, I renounce them

Darnay

To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering

Darnay

Unsettled weather, a long journey, uncertain means of traveling, a disorganized country, a city that may not be even safe for you

Darnay

We have so asserted out station, both in the old time and in the modern time also, that I believe our name to be more detested than any name in France

Darnay

What is this decree that the smith spoke of?

Darnay

Why need I speak of my father's time, when it is equally yours? Can I separate my father's twin-brother, joint inheritor, and next successor, from himself?

Darnay

Will I promise? What will I not promise to my Love?

Darnay

Yes. The family honour, sir, is safe from me in this country. The family name can suffer from me in no other, for I bear it in no other

Darnay

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden.

Darnay

You heard me say why, a minute ago. Do you not believe it is the truth?

Darnay

You left Paris yesterday, sir?

Darnay

You make light of the obligation, but I will not quarrel with YOUR light answer

Darnay

You may not understand the gentleman

Darnay

Your confidence in me ought to be returned with full confidence on my part. My present name, though but slightly changed from my mother's, is not, as you will remember, my own. I wish to tell you what that is, and why I am in England.

Darnay

like you, striving to live away from it by my own exertions, and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life and home, and being faithful to you to the death.

Darnay

that one might be listened to, and might have the power to persuade to some restraint. Only last night, after you had left us, when I was talking to Lucie

Darnay

A great woman, a strong woman, a grand woman, a frightfully grand woman!

Defarge

Age, about forty years; height, about five feet nine; black hair; complexion dark; generally, rather handsome visage; eyes dark, face thin, long, and sallow; nose aquiline, but not straight, having a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek; expression, therefore, sinister

Defarge

Alexander Manette, And here he wrote 'a poor physician'. And it was he, without doubt, who scratched da calendar on his stone. What is that in your hand? A crowbar? Give it to me!

Defarge

And if it does come, while we live to see it triumph—I hope, for her sake, Destiny will keep her husband out of France

Defarge

Bravo! You are a good boy!

Defarge

But it is very strange- now, at least, it is not very strange that, after all our sympathy for Monsieur her father, and herself, her husband's name should be proscribed under your hand at this moment, by the side of that infernal dog's who has just left us?

Defarge

Can it be true, what he has said of Ma'amselle Manette?

Defarge

Come then! Patriots and friends, we are ready! The Bastille!

Defarge

Come, then! You shall see the apartment that I told you you could occupy. It will suit you to a marvel

Defarge

Confide in Madame Defarge. It would be easier for the weakest poltroon that lives, to erase himself from existence, than to erase one letter of his name or crimes from the knitted register of Madame Defarge

Defarge

Does everybody here recall old Foulon, who told the famished people that they might eat grass, and who died, and went to Hell?

Defarge

Does it mean a captive, or a place of captivity? Or do you mean that I shall strike you dead?

Defarge

Enough! Long live the Devil! Go on

Defarge

He knows nothing, at least nothing more than would easily elevate himself to a gallows of the same height. I charge myself with him; let him remain with me; I will take care of him, and set him on his road. He wishes to see the fine world—the King, the Queen, and Court; let him see them on Sunday

Defarge

Hold the light higher! Look among those fragments with care, Jacques. And see! Here is my knife, rip open that bed, and search the straw. Hold the light higher, you!

Defarge

Hold! I too, my dear, will stop pat nothing

Defarge

I have seen him but now, on his way to the Hotel de Ville, a prisoner. I have said that he had reason to fear us. Say all! HAD he reason?

Defarge

I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of roads, called Jaques

Defarge

I met him—by accident—a day and half's journey out of Paris. He is a good child, this mender of roads, called Jacques. Give him to drink,

Defarge

I will do nothing for you. My duty is to my country and the People. I am the sworn servant of both, against you. I will do nothing for you.

Defarge

In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?

Defarge

Is it you who married the daughter of Doctor Manette, once a prisoner in the Bastille that is no more??

Defarge

It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning

Defarge

Jacques One, Jacques Two, Jacques Three! This is the witness encountered by appointment, by me, Jacques Four. He will tell you all. Speak, Jacques Five!

Defarge

Jacques, if madame my wife undertook to keep the register in her memory alone, she would not lose a word of it—not a syllable of it. Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun.

Defarge

Jacques, judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Defarge

Keep near to me, Jacques Three and do you, Jacques One and Two, separate and put yourselves at the head of as many of these patriots as you can. Where is my wife?

Defarge

Let us collect them together, in the middle of the cell. So! Light them, you!

Defarge

My brave wife, I do not question all this. But it has lasted a long time, and it is possible—you know well, my wife, it is possible—that it may not come, during our lives

Defarge

No matter, the number, He is well hidden, but at last he is unluckily found. Go on!

Defarge

No one has told me so, I know nothing of it

Defarge

Not dead! He feared us so much—and with reason—that he caused himself to be represented as dead, and had a grand mock-funeral. But they have found him alive, hiding in the country, and have brought him in.

Defarge

Pass that torch slowly along these walls, that I may see them

Defarge

Patriots! Are we ready?

Defarge

Show me the North Tower!

Defarge

The news is of him. He is among us!

Defarge

These fools know nothing. While they despise your breath, and would stop it for ever and ever, in you or in a hundred like you rather than in one of their own horses or dogs, they only know what your breath tells them. Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it cannot deceive them too much

Defarge

To be resisted, as doomed to destruction

Defarge

Very little to-night, but all he knows. There is another spy commissioned for our quarter. There may be many more, for all that he can say, but he knows of one.

Defarge

Well! We shall not see the triumph

Defarge

What is the meaning of One Hundred and Five, North Tower?

Defarge

Work, comrades all, work! Work, Jacques One, Jacques Two, Jacques One Thousand, Jacques Two Thousand, Jacques Five-and-Twenty Thousand; in the name of all the Angels or the Devils—which you prefer—work!

Defarge

You are the fellow we want, you make these fools believe that it will last forever. Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended

Defarge

You mistake me for another. That is not my name.

Defarge

You seem to know this quarter well; that is to say, better than I do?

Defarge

You will see. But, what then? Other people have been similarly buried in worse prisons, before now.

Defarge

And she shows die her children, and they had heard of me, and had been taught to pity me. When they passed a prison of the State, they kept far from its frowning walls, and looked up at its bars, and spoke in whispers

Dr. Manette

And when the relapse fell on him, was he in the most respects-or in all respects-as he was then?

Dr. Manette

As to the future, I should have great hope. As it pleased Heaven in its mercy to restore him so soon, I should have great hope.

Dr. Manette

Be explicit, spare no detail

Dr. Manette

Believe it, love! Indeed it is so. Consider how natural and how plain it is, my dear, that it should be so. You, devoted and young, cannot fully appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted

Dr. Manette

Charles Darnay! I rejoice to see you. We have been counting on your return these three or four days past. Mr. Stryver and Sydney Carton were both here yesterday, and both made you out to be more than due.

Dr. Manette

Do you seek any guidance from me? Do you seek any promise from me?

Dr. Manette

Even now, when I believe he is more hopeful of himself than he has ever been, and even speaks of himself with a kind of confidence, the idea that he might need that old employment, and not find it, gives him a sudden sense of terror, like that which one may fancy strikes to the heart of a lost child

Dr. Manette

Give me your hand. She will be home directly, and it is better she should not see us together to-night. Go! God bless you!

Dr. Manette

He, yielding under the pressure of a complicated something, long derided and long vaguely foreseen and contended against, and recovering after the cloud had burst and passed, I should ope that the worst was over

Dr. Manette

How did it show itself? I infer, in the resumption of some old pursuit connected with the shock

Dr. Manette

I am sure of it. Charles Darnay, mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division; in the former case, they are subtle and delicate, and difficult to penetrate.

Dr. Manette

I ask you pardon, I do not doubt your loving Lucie; you may be satisfied of it

Dr. Manette

I believe it, I have thought so before now. I believe it.

Dr. Manette

I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. If she should ever tell me that you are essential to her perfect happiness, I will give her to you. If there were—Charles Darnay, if there were—

Dr. Manette

I believe, that there had been a strong and extraordinary revival of the train of thought and remembrance that was the first cause of the malady.

Dr. Manette

I do not think so. I do not think, that anything but the one train of association would renew it. I think that, henceforth, nothing but some extraordinary jarring of that chord could renew it.

Dr. Manette

I give the promise, without any condition. I believe your object to be, purely and truthfully, as you have stated it.

Dr. Manette

I had not thought of both; I should not think either, likely. You want a promise from me. Tell me what it is

Dr. Manette

I have looked at her, in a state so dun and lethargic, that I have thought of nothing but the number of horizontal lines I could draw across her at the full, and the number of perpendicular lines with which I could intersect them.

Dr. Manette

I have looked at her, speculating thousands of times upon the unborn child from whom I had been rent. Whether it was alive. Whether it had been born alive, or the poor mother's shock had killed it. Whether it was a son who would some day avenge his father.

Dr. Manette

I have pictured my daughter, to myself, as perfectly forgetful of me—rather, altogether ignorant of me, and unconscious of me. I have cast up the years of her age, year after year.

Dr. Manette

I have seen her image in the moonlight often, as I now see you; except that I never held her in my arms; it stood between the little grated window and the door. But, you understand that that was not the child I am speaking of?

Dr. Manette

I have seen her married to a man who knew nothing of my fate. I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank

Dr. Manette

I recall these old troubles in the reason that I have to-night for loving you better than words can tell, and thanking God for my great happiness. My thoughts, when they were wildest, never rose near the happiness that I have known with you, and that we have before us

Dr. Manette

I think it probable, that the relapse you have described, my dear friend, was not quite unforeseen by its subject.

Dr. Manette

I think not. It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery

Dr. Manette

If I understand, some mental shock-?

Dr. Manette

If that be so, do you see what, on the other hand, is involved in it?

Dr. Manette

In her name, then, let it be done; I sanction it. But, I would not take it away while he was present. Let it be removed when he is not there; let him miss his old companion after an absence.

Dr. Manette

In that more peaceful state, I have imagined her, in the moonlight, coming to me and taking me out to show me that the home of her married life was full of her loving remembrance of her lost father. My picture was in her room, and I was in her prayers. Her life was active, cheerful, useful; but my poor history pervaded it all.

Dr. Manette

Is Lucie the topic?

Dr. Manette

Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge?

Dr. Manette

Is sought by any other suitor?

Dr. Manette

It is hard for me to speak of her at any time. It is very hard for me to hear her spoken of in that tone of yours, Charles Darnay

Dr. Manette

It would be ungenerous to affect not to know that your self-denial is to be referred to your consideration for her father. Her father thanks you

Dr. Manette

My child, you did see him, and it is Charles. If it had not been Charles, it would have been another. Or, if it had been no other, I should have been the cause, and then the dark part of my life would have cast its shadow beyond myself, and would have fallen on you.

Dr. Manette

My daughter Lucie is, in this one respect, such a mystery to me; I can make no guess at the state of her heart.

Dr. Manette

My dear Lorry, I doubt if that could easily be. There has been a violent stress in one direction, and it needs a counterweight

Dr. Manette

No. That was another thing. It stood before my disturbed sense of sight, but it never moved. The phantom that my mind pursued, was another and more real child. Of her outward appearance I know no more than that she was like her mother

Dr. Manette

Now, did you ever see him, engaged in that pursuit originally?

Dr. Manette

Of how long duration?

Dr. Manette

Quite sure, my darling! My future is far brighter, seen through your marriage, than it could have been, nay, than it ever was- without it

Dr. Manette

See! I have looked at her from my prison-window, when I could not bear her light. I have looked at her when it has been such torture to me to think of her shining upon what I had lost, that I have beaten my head against my prison-walls.

Dr. Manette

She could never deliver me; I imagined that she always brought me back after showing me such things. But then, blessed with the relief of tears, I fell upon my knees, and blessed her

Dr. Manette

She is everything to me; more to me than suffering, more to me than wrong, more to me—Well! This is idle talk

Dr. Manette

So! But on other moonlight nights, when the sadness and the silence have touched me in a different way—have affected me with something as like a sorrowful sense of peace, as any emotion that had pain for its foundations could—I have imagined her as coming to me in my cell, and leading me out into the freedom beyond the fortress.

Dr. Manette

Some intense associations of a most distressing nature were vividly recalled, I think. It is probable that there had long been a dread lurking in his mind, that those associations would be recalled—say, under certain circumstances—say, on a particular occasion. He tried to prepare himself in vain; perhaps the effort to prepare himself made him less able to bear it.

Dr. Manette

Take her, Charles! She is yours!

Dr. Manette

Tell me when I ask you, not now. If your suit should prosper, if Lucie should love you, you shall tell me on your marriage morning. Do you promise?

Dr. Manette

That was very kind. That was very thoughtful!

Dr. Manette

The other had that likeness too—as you have—but was not the same. Can you follow me, Lucie? Hardly, I think? I doubt you must have been a solitary prisoner to understand these perplexed distinctions

Dr. Manette

Yes? Bring your chair here, and speak on

Dr. Manette

You cannot do your friend da better service.

Dr. Manette

You have no idea how such an apprehension weighs on the sufferer's mind, and how difficult—how almost impossible—it is, for him to force himself to utter a word upon the topic that oppresses him

Dr. Manette

You have seen Mr. Carton here, yourself. Mr. Stryver is here too, occasionally. If it be at all, it can only be by one of these

Dr. Manette

You said something to me, What was it you said to me?

Dr. Manette

Emigrant, I am going to send you on to Paris, under an escort

Hotel functionary

Is is as the good patriot says. You are an aristocrat, and must have an escort—and must pay for it.

Hotel functionary

It is always as the good patriot says. Rise and dress yourself, emigrant

Hotel functionary

You see, it is very hard to explain, consistently, the innermost workings of this poor man's mind. He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was o welcome when it came; no doubt it relived his pain so much, by substituting the perplexity of the fingers for the perplexity of the brain, and by substituting, and he became more practiced, the ingenuity of the hands, for the ingenuity of the mental torture; that has never been able to bear the thought of putting it quite out of his reach.

Dr. Manette

You see, too, it is such an old companion

Dr. Manette

You spoke of his daughter. Does his daughter know of the relapse?

Dr. Manette

You, Lucie? It is out of the Consolation and restoration you have brought to me, that these remembrances arise, and pass between us and the moon on this last night. —What did I say just now?

Dr. Manette

—any fancies, any reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old, against the man she really loved—the direct responsibility thereof not lying on his head—they should all be obliterated for her sake

Dr. Manette

—wasted, my child—should not be wasted, struck aside from the natural order of things—for my sake. Your unselfishness cannot entirely comprehend how much my mind has gone on this; but, only ask yourself, how could my happiness be perfect, while yours was incomplete?

Dr. Manette

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay, that I thank you with all my heart, and will open all my heart—or nearly so. Have you any reason to believe that Lucie loves you?

Dr. manette

After having long been in danger of my life at the hands of the village, I have been seized, with great violence and indignity, and brought a long journey on foot to Paris. On the road I have suffered a great deal. Nor is that all; my house has been destroyed—razed to the ground

Gabelle's letter

Ah! most gracious Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, where is that emigrant? I cry in my sleep where is he? I demand of Heaven, will he not come to deliver me?

Gabelle's letter

For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name, I supplicate you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, to succour and release me.

Gabelle's letter

From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.

Gabelle's letter

It is in vain I represent that I have acted for them, and not against, according to your commands. It is in vain I represent that, before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay; that I had collected no rent; that I had had recourse to no process. The only response is, that I have acted for an emigrant, and where is that emigrant

Gabelle's letter

My fault is, that I have been true to you. Oh Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, I pray you be you true to me!

Gabelle's letter

No answer. Ah Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, I send my desolate cry across the sea, hoping it may perhaps reach your ears through the great bank of Tilson known at Paris!

Gabelle's letter

The crime for which I am imprisoned, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, and for which I shall be summoned before the tribunal, and shall lose my life (without your so generous help), is, they tell me, treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.

Gabelle's letter

Very pressing. To Monsieur heretofore the Marquis St. Evremonde, of France. Confided to the cares of Messrs. Tellson and Co., Bankers, London, England

Gabelle's letter

Such are not my orders. You will be visited, and can ask then. At present, you may buy your food, and nothing more

Gaoler

What the Devil! How many more of them!

Gaoler (in charge of prison)

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Gaspard

Ah, what a pity! We so much regret it! But take courage; several members of our society have been in secret, at first, and it has lasted but a short time

Gentleman prisoner at la Force

But I hope that you are not in secret?

Gentleman prisoner at la Force

I have the honour of giving you welcome to La Force, and of condoling with you on the calamity that has brought you among us. May it soon terminate happily! It would be an impertinence elsewhere, but it is not so here, to ask your name and condition?

Gentleman prisoner at la Force

A bad business this, madame, of Gaspard's execution. Ah! The poor Gaspard!

Barsad

A pretty pattern too!

Barsad

Ah, the unfortunate, miserable people! So oppressed, too- as you say

Barsad

Decidedly. May one ask what it is for?

Barsad

Have the goodness to give me a little glass of old cognac, and a mouthful of cool fresh water, madame

Barsad

I believe there is much compassion and anger in this neighbourhood, touching the poor fellow? Between ourselves.

Barsad

I was saying to madame, with whom I had the pleasure of chatting when you entered, that they tell me there is—and no wonder! —much sympathy and anger in Saint Antoine, touching the unhappy fate of poor Gaspard

Barsad

It was to you, that his daughter came; and it was from your care that his daughter took him, accompanied by a neat brown monsieur; how is he called? —in a little wig—Lorry—of the bank of Tellson and Company—over to England

Barsad

Not at all, but I hope to know it better. I am so profoundly interested in its miserable inhabitants

Barsad

Pardon me; certainly it was I who said so, but you naturally think so. Of course

Barsad

The pleasure of conversing with you, Monsieur Defarge, recalls to me that I have the honor of cherishing some interesting associations with your name

Barsad

Yes, Miss Manette is going to be married. But not to an Englishman; to one who, like herself, is French by birth. And speaking of Gaspard (ah, poor Gaspard! It was cruel, cruel!), it is a curious thing that she is going to marry the nephew of Monsieur the Marquis, for whom Gaspard was exalted to that height of so many feet; in other words, the present Marquis. But he lives unknown in England, he is no Marquis there; he is Mr. Charles Darnay. D'Aulnais is the name of his mother's family.

Barsad

Yes, indeed. When Doctor Manette was released, you, his old domestic, had the charge of him, I know. He was delivered to you. You see I am informed of the circumstances?

Barsad

You knit with great skill, madame

Barsad

Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young. All my life might have been.

Carton

Don't say that, Miss Manette, for you would have reclaimed me, if anything could. You will not be the cause of my becoming worse.

Carton

Entreat me to believe it no more, Miss Manette. I have proved myself, and I know better. I distress you; I draw fast to an end. Will you let me believe, when I recall this day, that the last confidence of my life was reposed in your pure and innocent breast, and that it lies there alone, and will be shared by no one?

Carton

Fashion of speech again! But, Mr. Darnay, oblivion is not so easy to me, as you represent it to be to you. I have by no means forgotten it, and a light answer does not help me to forget it

Carton

Genuine truth, Mr. Darnay, trust me! I have gone aside from my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends. Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men. If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he'll tell you so

Carton

God bless you for your sweet compassion!

Carton

I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner

Carton

I doubt if I should abuse the permission. It is a hundred to one if I should avail myself of it four times in a year. It would satisfy me, I dare say, to know that I had it.

Carton

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

Carton

I have no business to be, at all, that I know of, Who is the lady?

Carton

I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me; I ask for none; I am even thankful that it cannot be

Carton

I remember it too. The curse of those occasions is heavy upon me, for I always remember them. I hope it may be taken into account one day, when all days are at an end for me! Don't be alarmed; I am not going to preach

Carton

If it had been possible, Miss Manette, that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself—flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misuse as you know him to be—he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you to misery, bring you to sorrow and repentance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

Carton

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.

Carton

In the hour of my death, I shall hold sacred the one good remembrance—and shall thank and bless you for it—that my last avowal of myself was made to you, and that my name, and faults, and miseries were gently carried in your heart. May it otherwise be light and happy!

Carton

Is it not—forgive me; I have begun the question on my lips—a pity to live no better life?

Carton

It is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse

Carton

It is useless to say it, I know, but it rises out of my soul. For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.

Carton

It should be very beneficial to a man in your practice at the bar, to be ashamed of anything, you ought to be much obliged to me

Carton

My last supplication of all, is this; and with it, I will relieve you of a visitor with whom I well know you have nothing in unison, and between whom and you there is an impassable space

Carton

No, Miss Manette; all through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away

Carton

No. But the life I lead is not conductive to health. What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates?

Carton

Not even by the dearest one ever to be known to you?

Carton

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!

Carton

Pray forgive me, Miss Manette. I break down before the knowledge of what I want to say to you. Will you hear me?

Carton

Say of you, Miss Manette, and although I know better—although in the mystery of my own wretched heart I know better—I shall never forget it!

Carton

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.

Carton

That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I have indicated. I thank you, Darnay. I may use that freedom with your name?

Carton

The utmost good that I am capable of now, Miss Manette, I have come here to realise. Let me carry through the rest of my misdirected life, the remembrance that I opened my heart to you, last of all the world; and that there was something left in me at this time which you could deplore and pity

Carton

To none. No, Miss Manette, to none. 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.

Carton

Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you—ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn—the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you

Carton

Upon my life, I find that easier to comprehend in my own mind, than to convey to yours. However, let me try. You remember a certain famous occasion when I was more drunk than- than usual?

Carton

Well! At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will.

Carton

Why should I be astonished?

Carton

Why should I not approve?

Carton

You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.

Carton

You are luckier, if you mean that

Carton

You don't get on with your account of your matrimonial intentions, I wish you would keep to that. As to me- will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

Carton

And do you take no one with you?

Darnay

And has left me, bound to a system that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it

Darnay

Besides that I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. If I had any such possibility, even at a remote distance of years, harboured in my thoughts, and hidden in my heart—if it ever had been there—if it ever could be there—I could not now touch this honoured hand

Darnay

But although you are the youngest man that ever lived, I must suggest still suggest to you

Darnay

But do not believe, that if my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my life, I must at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say

Darnay

But, however that may be, I know that your diplomacy would stop me by any means, and would know no scrapple as to means

Darnay

Citizen, I desire nothing more than to get to Paris, though I could dispense with the escort

Darnay

Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. You have loved yourself; let your old love speak for me!

Darnay

Dear Doctor Manette, always knowing this, always seeing her and you with this hallowed light about you, I have forborne, and forborne, as long as it was in the nature of man to do it.

Darnay

Doctor Manette, I knew she was from home. I took the opportunity of her being from home, to beg to speak to you

Darnay

Emigrant, my friends! Do you not see me here, in France, of my own will?

Darnay

Friends, you deceive yourselves, or you are deceived. I am not a traitor

Darnay

God bless her for her sweet compassion!

Darnay

Good Heaven, what was there to dismiss! Have I had nothing more important to remember, in the great service you rendered me that day?

Darnay

He will start upon his journey tomorrow night

Darnay

How I admire the gallantry of your youthful spirit, Mr. Lorry

Darnay

However, I am not going, it is more to the purpose that you say you are

Darnay

I am not at all alarmed. Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me.

Darnay

I am not to be buried there, prejudged, and without any means of presenting my case?

Darnay

I am obliged to them for their interest in the matter

Darnay

I ask none, sir. But I have thought it possible that you might have it in your power, if you should deem it right, to give me some

Darnay

I believe that if you were not in disgrace with the Court, and had not been overshadowed by that cloud for years past, a letter de cachet would have sent me to some fortress indefinitely

Darnay

I come direct

Darnay

I do not understand the meaning of the term, but I have heard them say so

Darnay

I don't know that you 'never will'

Darnay

I doubt, sir, whether, if it had carried me to the utmost brink of death, you would have cared to stop me there

Darnay

I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you. I demand no more than the opportunity to do so without delay. Is not that my right?

Darnay

I forgot it long ago

Darnay

I had no intention, in the words I used, to claim it yet. If it passed to me from you, to-morrow

Darnay

I have already said, that for my prospering there, I am sensible I may be indebted to you, sir. For the rest, it is my Refuge

Darnay

I have been detained by various business

Darnay

I have come back, sir, as you anticipate, pursuing the object that took me away. It carried me into great and unexpected peril; but it is a sacred object, and if it had carried me to death I hope it would have sustained me

Darnay

I have delivered that letter, I would not consent to your being charged with any written answer, but perhaps you will take a verbal one?

Darnay

I have felt, and do even now feel, that to bring my love—even mine—between you, is to touch your history with something not quite so good as itself. But I love her. Heaven is my witness that I love her!

Darnay

I have had the happiness, Doctor Manette, of being so intimate here, for some year and a half, that I hope the topic on which I am about to touch may not—

Darnay

I hope you may be able to think so well of me, as to urge no influence against me. I say nothing more of my stake in this; this is what I ask.

Darnay

I know perfectly well that if you had been restored to her from the world beyond this life, you could hardly be invested, in her sight, with a more sacred character than that in which you are always with her.

Darnay

I know that when she is clinging to you, the hands of baby, girl, and woman, all in one, are round your neck. I know that in loving you she sees and loves her mother at her own age, sees and loves you at my age, loves her mother broken-hearted, loves you through your dreadful trial and in your blessed restoration. I have known this, night and day, since I have known you in your home

Darnay

I know that, as in her childhood she had no parent, so she is now devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of the early days in which you were lost to her.

Darnay

I know the fellow

Darnay

I know, Doctor Manette—how can I fail to know—that, mingled with the affection and duty of a daughter who has become a woman, there is, in her heart, towards you, all the love and reliance of infancy itself.

Darnay

I know, how can I fail to know, Doctor Manette, I who have seen you together from day to day, that between you and Miss Manette there is an affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to the circumstances in which it has been nurtured, that it can have even a few parallels, even in the tenderness between father and child

Darnay

I must do, to live, what others of my countrymen, even with nobility at their backs, may have to do some day—work

Darnay

I must say again that I heartily admire your gallantry and youthfulness

Darnay

I perceive that, happily for me, the Reception of the day before yesterday was as usual, a cold one

Darnay

I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his.

Darnay

I remember a certain famous occasion when you forced me to confess that you had been drinking

Darnay

I understand equally well, that a word from her father in any suitor's favour, would outweigh herself and all the world. For which reason, Doctor Manette

Darnay

A honouring and obeying wife would let his trade alone altogether. Call yourself a religious woman? If you're a religious woman, give me a irreligious one! You have no more nat'ral sense of duty than the bed of this here Thames river has of a pile, and similarly it must be knocked into you

Jerry

And mind you! No games to-morrow! If I, as a honest tradesman, succeed in providing a jinte of meat or two, none of your not touching of it, and sticking to bread

Jerry

Drop it then, I won't have none of YOUR no harms. Get a stop of that there seat, and look at the crowd

Jerry

Hem! Well, he's a tradesman

Jerry

Him and his hooroars! Don't let me hear no more of you, or you shall feel some more of me. D'ye hear?

Jerry

His goods is a branch of Scientific goods

Jerry

If I don't, you'l have short commons, to-morrow, that's questions enough for you; I ain't a going out, till you've been long abed

Jerry

If I, as a honest tradesman, am able to provide a little beer, none of your declaring on water. When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you know

Jerry

Is it being a good wife to oppose your husband's business? Is it honouring your husband to dishonour his business? Is it obeying your husband to disobey him on the wital subject of his business?

Jerry

It depends upon how you dewelop your talents. Be careful to dewelop your talents, and never to say no more than you can help to nobody, and there's no telling at the present time what you may not come to be fit for

Jerry

It's enough for you, to be the wife of a honest tradesman, and not to occupy your female mind with calculations when he took his trade or when he didn't

Jerry

Jerry, you honest tradesman, there's hopes wot that boy will yet be a blessing to you, and a recompense to you for his mother!

Jerry

Jerry, you see that there Cly that day, and you see with your own eyes that he was a young 'un and a straight made 'un

Jerry

Look at your boy: he IS your'n, ain't he? He's as thin as a lath. Do you call yourself a mother, and not know that a mother's first duty is to blow her boy out?

Jerry

No, you mayn't. I'm a going—as your mother knows—a fishing. That's where I'm going to. Going a fishing

Jerry

Now, I tell you where it is! If as a honest tradesman, my ventures go wrong tonight, I shall make sure that you've been praying again me, and I shall work you for it just the same as if I seen you do it

Jerry

Well, then; don't meditate nothing. You might as well flop as meditate. You may as well go again me one way as another. Drop it altogether

Jerry

What d'ye mean? What are you hooroaring at? What do you want to conwey to your own father, you young Rip? This boy is a getting too many for ME!

Jerry

With your flying into the face of your own wittles and drink! I don't know how scarce you mayn't make the wittles and drink here, by your flopping tricks and your unfeeling conduct

Jerry

You and your yes, Jerry

Jerry

You oppose yourself to the profit of the business, and me and my partners suffer. You was to honor and obey; why the devil don't you?

Jerry

But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. In the meantime, it is always preparing, though it is not seen or heard. That is your consolation. Keep it

Madame Defarge

Eh my faith. It is a portrait! He shall be registered tomorrow

Madame Defarge

Eh well! It is necessary to register him. How do they call that man?

Madame Defarge

For instance, shrouds

Madame Defarge

Hah! Good day, age about forty, height about five feet nine, black hair, generally rather handsome visage, complexion dark, eyes dark, thin, long and sallow face, aquiline nose but not straight, having a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek which imparts a sinister expression! Good day, one and all!

Madame Defarge

Her husband destiny, will take him where he is to go, and will lead him to the end that is to end him. That is all I know.

Madame Defarge

How long, does it take to make sand store the lightning? Tell me

Madame Defarge

I go, with you at present. You shall see me at the head of women, by and bye.

Madame Defarge

I perceive your tongue is and what the tongue is, I suppose the man is

Madame Defarge

I tell thee, that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing. Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour. Can such things last? Bah! I mock you

Madame Defarge

I think? I and my husband have enough to do to keep this wine-shop open, without thinking. All we think, here, is how to live. That is the subject WE think of, and it gives us, from morning to night, enough to think about, without embarrassing our heads concerning others. I think for others? No, no.

Madame Defarge

If you were shown a great heap of dolls, and were set upon them to pluck them to pieces and despoil them for your own advantage, you would pick out the richest and gayest. Say! Would you not?

Madame Defarge

It does not take a long time, for an earthquake swallow a town. eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?

Madame Defarge

It is a long time, and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Madame Defarge

John Barsad, Good. His appearance; is it known?

Madame Defarge

My faith! If people use knives for such purposes, they have to pay for it. He knew beforehand wha the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price

Madame Defarge

Say then, my friend; what did Jacques of the police tell thee?

Madame Defarge

See the old villain bound with ropes. That was well done to tie a bunch of grass upon his back. Ha, ha! That was well done. Let him eat it now!

Madame Defarge

She was pretty enough to have been married long ago. You English are cold, it seems to me

Madame Defarge

Stay long enough, and I shall knit 'BARSAD' before you go

Madame Defarge

Stranger things than that will happen when it does come,I have them both here, of a certainty; and they are both here for their merits; that is enough.

Madame Defarge

That depends. I may find a use for it one day. If I do, well, I'll use it!

Madame Defarge

To me, women! Wha! We can kill as well as the men when the place is taken! And to her, with a shrill thirsty cry, trooping women variously armed, but all armed alike in hunger and revenge.

Madame Defarge

We we never hear about them. We received the news of their safe arrival, and perhaps another letter, or perhaps two; but, since then, they have gradually taken their road in life—we, ours—and we have held no correspondence

Madame Defarge

Yes! But it is your weakness that you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity, to sustain you. Sustain yourself without that. When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained—not shown—yet always ready

Madame Defarge

Yes, I have a good deal to do

Madame Defarge

You are a little depressed, too. Oh the men! The men!

Madame Defarge

You are fatigued. There are only the usual odors

Madame Defarge

You have seen both dolls and birds to-day,now, go home!

Madame Defarge

es. And if you were shown a flock of birds, unable to fly, and were set upon them to strip them of their feathers for your own advantage, you would set upon the birds of the finest feathers; would you not?

Madame Defarge

As he has said it, it is probably false. But it may be true

Madame Degrade

A craven who abandoned his post, this Monseigneur had been got out of Paris, legs upper most and half suffocated in a load of hay some years ago

Man at Tellson's

Nephew, I believe- but in any case degenerate successor of the polished Marquis who was murdered. Happy to say I never knew him.

Man at Tellson's

Infected with the new doctrines, set himself in opposition to the last Marquis, abandoned the estates when he inherited them, and left them to the ruffian herd. They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves

Man at Telson's

Help, Gabelle! Help, every one!

Tocsin

Help, gentlemen- officers! The chateau is on fire; valuable objects may be saved from the flames by timely aid! Help, help!

Tocsin

Good. When do you cease to work?

Traveller Jacques

It is the fashion, I meet no dinner anywhere

Traveller Jacques

To the Devil with all that! I go through no streets and past no fountains. Well?

Traveller Jacques

Will you wake me, before departing? I have walked tow nights without resting. Let me finish my pipe, and I shall sleep like a child. Will you wake me?

Traveller Jacques

I warn't doing no harm

Young Jerry

May I go with you, father?

Young Jerry

Oh, father, I should so like to be a Resurrection-Man when I'm quite crowed up!

Young Jerry

Person's bodies, ain't it?

Young Jerry

Shall you bring any fish home?

Young Jerry

Your fighting rod gets rather rusty; don't it, father?

Young Jerry

Again; on the other hand, they whisper at the fountain, that he is brought down into our country to be executed on the spot, and that he will very certainly be executed.

Mender of the roads

All the village, withdraws; all the village whispers by the fountain; all the village sleeps; all the village dreams of that unhappy one, within the locks and bars of the prison on the crag, and never to come out of it, except to perish.

Mender of the roads

All work is stopped, all assemble there, nobody leads the cows out, the cows are there with the rest. At midday, the roll of drums. Soldiers have marched into the prison in the night, and he is in the midst of many soldiers. He is bound as before, and in his mouth there is a gag—tied so, with a tight string, making him look almost as if he laughed

Mender of the roads

Also, I see that their long shadows are on the hollow ridge on the opposite side of the road, and are on the hill above it, and are like the shadows of giants. Also, I see that they are covered with dust, and that the dust moves with them as they come, tramp, tramp!

Mender of the roads

As they descend the hill like madmen running a race, he falls. They laugh and pick him up again. His face is bleeding and covered with dust, but he cannot touch it; thereupon they laugh again

Mender of the roads

But what did I know? The deed was not then accomplished, neither did he confide in me. Observe! Under those circumstances even, I do not offer my testimony. Monsieur the Marquis indicates me with his finger, standing near our little fountain, and says, `To me! Bring that rascal!' My faith, messieurs, I offer nothing

Mender of the roads

But when they advance quite near to me, I recognise the tall man, and he recognises me. Ah, but he would be well content to precipitate himself over the hill-side once again, as on the evening when he and I first encountered, close to the same spot!

Mender of the roads

By his tall figure, when Monsieur the Marquis demands that evening, 'Say, what is he like?' I make response, 'Tall as a spectre'

Mender of the roads

Formerly, they were turned towards the posting-house; now, they are turned towards the prison. They whisper at the fountain, that although condemned to death he will not be executed; they say that petitions have been presented in Paris, showing that he was enraged and made mad by the death of his child; they say that a petition has been presented to the King himself. What do I know? It is possible. Perhaps yes, perhaps no

Mender of the roads

He remains up there in his iron cage some days. The village looks at him by stealth, for it is afraid. But it always looks up, from a distance, at the prison on the crag; and in the evening, when the work of the day is achieved and it assembles to gossip at the fountain, all faces are turned towards the prison.

Mender of the roads

I am again at work upon the hill-side, and the sun is again about to go to bed. I am collecting my tools to descend to my cottage down in the village below, where it is already dark, when I raise my eyes, and see coming over the hill six soldiers. In the midst of them is a tall man with his arms bound—tied to his sides—like this!

Mender of the roads

I do not show the soldiers that I recognise the tall man; he does not show the soldiers that he recognises me; we do it, and we know it, with our eyes. `Come on!' says the chief of that company, pointing to the village, `bring him fast to his tomb!' and they bring him faster.

Mender of the roads

I follow. His arms are swelled because of being bound so tight, his wooden shoes are large and clumsy, and he is lame. Because he is lame, and consequently slow, they drive him with their guns—like this!

Mender of the roads

I saw him then, messieurs, a year ago this running summer, underneath the carriage of the Marquis, hanging by the chain. Behold the manner of it. I leaving my work on the road, the sun going to bed, the carriage of the Marquis slowly ascending the hill, he hanging by the chain—like this.

Mender of the roads

I stand aside, messieurs, by my heap of stones, to see the soldiers and their prisoner pass (for it is a solitary road, that, where any spectacle is well worth looking at), and at first, as they approach, I see no more than that they are six soldiers with a tall man bound, and that they are almost black to my sight—except on the side of the sun going to bed, where they have a red edge, messieurs.

Mender of the roads

In the morning, with my tools upon my shoulder, eating my morsel of black bread as I go, I make a circuit by the prison, on my way to my work. There I see him, high up, behind the bars of a lofty iron cage, bloody and dusty as last night, looking through. He has no hand free, to wave to me; I dare not call to him; he regards me like a dead man

Mender of the roads

It is frightful, messieurs. How can the women and the children draw water! Who can gossip of an evening, under that shadow! Under it, have I said? When I left the village, Monday evening as the sun was going to bed, and looked back from the hill, the shadow struck across the church, across the mill, across the prison—seemed to strike across the earth, messieurs, to where the sky rests upon it!

Mender of the roads

On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. He is hanged there forty feet high—and is left hanging, poisoning the water

Mender of the roads

One old man says at the fountain, that his right hand, armed with the knife, will be burnt off before his face; that, into wounds which will be made in his arms, his breast, and his legs, there will be poured boiling oil, melted lead, hot resin, wax, and sulphur; finally, that he will be torn limb from limb by four strong horses. That old man says, all this was actually done to a prisoner who made an attempt on the life of the late King, Louis Fifteen. But how do I know if he lies? I am not a scholar.

Mender of the roads

That's all, messieurs. I left at sunset (as I had been warned to do), and I walked on, that night and half next day, until I met (as I was warned I should) this comrade. With him, I came on, now riding and now walking, through the rest of yesterday and through last night. And here you see me!

Mender of the roads

The tall man is lost, and he is sought- how many months? Nine, ten, eleven?

Mender of the roads

They bring him into the village; all the village runs to look; they take him past the mill, and up to the prison; all the village sees the prison gate open in the darkness of the night, and swallow him—like this!

Mender of the roads

They even whisper that because he has slain Monseigneur, and because Monseigneur was the father of his tenants—serfs—what you will—he will be executed as a parricide.

Mender of the roads

Well! About two leagues beyond the summit of that hill above the village

Mender of the roads

Well! Some whisper this, some whisper that; they speak of nothing else; even the fountain appears to fall to that tune. At length, on Sunday night when all the village is asleep, come soldiers, winding down from the prison, and their guns ring on the stones of the little street.

Mender of the roads

Workmen dig, workmen hammer, soldiers laugh and sing; in the morning, by the fountain, there is raised a gallows forty feet high, poisoning the water

Mender of the roads

You go down here, and straight through the street, and past the fountain

Mender of the roads

A bad look, you say, my dear Darnay? Yes, but we don't know what reason there is in it. People are so unreasonable! Some of us at Tellson's are getting old, and we really can't be troubled out of the ordinary course without due occasion

Mr. Lorry

A dance, then, my wise pet. They are very numerous and very loud, though, are they not? Only hear them!

Mr. Lorry

All sorts of people have been proposed to me, but I will have nothing to say to any of them. I intend to take Jerry. Jerry has been my bodyguard on Sunday nights for a long time past and I am used to him.

Mr. Lorry

And I am, in plain reality. The truth is, my dear Charles, you can have no conception of difficulty with which our business is transacted, and of the peril in which our books and papers over yonder are involved

Mr. Lorry

And I haven no doubt, that I was right in the conversation we had. My opinion is confirmed, and I reiterate my advice

Mr. Lorry

And shall I hang back, when Tellson's knows this and says this—Tellson's, whose bread I have eaten these sixty years—because I am a little stiff about the joints? Why, I am a boy, sir, to half a dozen old codgers here!

Mr. Lorry

And so it was this, my sweet Lucie, that I brought you across the Channel, such a baby! Lord bless me!

Mr. Lorry

And when, at the fortnight's end, he comes to join you and your beloved husband, on your other fortnight's trip in Wales, you shall say that we have sent him to you in the best health and in the happiest frame.

Mr. Lorry

As to its being a disorganised city, if it were not a disorganised city there would be no occasion to send somebody from our House here to our House there, who knows the city and the business, of old, and is in Tellson's confidence.

Mr. Lorry

As to the uncertain travelling, the long journey, and the winter weather, if I were not prepared to submit myself to a few inconveniences for the sake of Tellson's, after all these years, who ought to be?

Mr. Lorry

At another time, our parcels would come and go, as easily as in business-like Old England; but now, everything is stopped.

Mr. Lorry

Because, I wouldn't go on such an object without having some cause to believe that I should succeed

Mr. Lorry

But I don't know how to originate, in such a case. If your sagacity, knowledge, and experience, could put me on the right track, I might be able to do so much; unenlightened and undirected, I can do so little. Pray discuss it with me; pray enable me to see it a little more clearly, and teach me how to be a little more useful

Mr. Lorry

But may not—mind! I ask for information, as a plodding man of business who only deals with such material objects as guineas, shillings, and bank-notes—may not the retention of the thing involve the retention of the idea? If the thing were gone, my dear Manette, might not the fear go with it? In short, is it not a concession to the misgiving, to keep the forge?

Mr. Lorry

But, as an old fellow, who has carried Miss Manette in his arms, who is the trusted friend of Miss Manette and of her father too, and who has a great affection for them both, I have spoken. The confidence is not of my seeking, recollect. Now, you think I may not be right?

Mr. Lorry

But-really- you know, you know there really is so much too much of you!

Mr. Lorry

Could a repetition of it be prevented? How should a repetition of it be treated? How does it come about at all? What can I do for my friend? No man ever can have been more desirous in his heart to serve a friend, than I am to serve mine, if I knew how.

Mr. Lorry

Dear me! This is an occasion that makes a man speculate on all he has lost. Dear, dear, dear! To think that there might have been a Mrs. Lorry, any time these fifty years almost!

Mr. Lorry

Doctor Manette, the case is the case of a particularly dear friend of mine. Pray give your mind to it, and advise me well for his sake- and above all, for his daughter's- his daughter's, my dear Manette

Mr. Lorry

Excuse me, as a persistent man of business. Assuming for a moment, that he WAS overworked; it would show itself in some renewal of this disorder?

Mr. Lorry

Gabelle. And what is the message to the unfortunate Gabelle in prison?

Mr. Lorry

Granted. Thank you. Well, Mr. Stryver, I was about to say: —it might be painful to you to find yourself mistaken, it might be painful to Doctor Manette to have the task of being explicit with you, it might be very painful to Miss Manette to have the task of being explicit with you

Mr. Lorry

He has always kept it by him, Now would it not be better that he should let it go?

Mr. Lorry

How little I thought what I was doing! How lightly I valued the obligation I was conferring on my friend Mr. Charles!

Mr. Lorry

I am highly though, upon my honor, I had no intention of rendering those trifling articles of remembrance invisible to any one.

Mr. Lorry

I am quite glad you are at home; for these hurries and forebodings by which I have been surrounded all day long, have made me nervous without reason. You are not going out, I hope?

Mr. Lorry

I began to think, that I should have to pass the night at Tellson's. WE have been so full of business all day, that we have not known what to do first, or which way to turn. There is such an uneasiness in Paris, that we actually a run of confidence upon us!

Mr. Lorry

I don't think I do like, if I may speak my mind. I am not fit to be pitted against you to-night. Is the teaboard still there, Lucie? I can't see

Mr. Lorry

I hear them moving in the next room, and Miss Pross and I, as two formal folks of business, are anxious not to lose the final opportunity of saying something to you that you wish to hear.

Mr. Lorry

I know that to be sure, but I am determined to be peevish after y long day's botheration. Where is Manette?

Mr. Lorry

I must say again, nonsense, nonsense! When I have executed this little commission, I shall, perhaps, accept Tellson's proposal to retire and live at my ease. Time enough, then, to think about growing old

Mr. Lorry

I really go tonight, for the case has become too pressing to admit of delay

Mr. Lorry

I think, I think we had best not speak to him just now, or at all disturb him. I must look in at Telson's; so I will go there at once and come back presently. Then, we will take him a ride into the country, and dine there, and all will be well

Mr. Lorry

I understand. That I am too old?

Mr. Lorry

I would not keep it, I would recommend him to sacrifice it. I only want your authority. I am sure it does no good. Come! Give me your authority, like a dear good man. For his daughter's sake, my dear Manette!

Mr. Lorry

I, my Pross?

Mr. Lorry

If you come to advancing you know, nobody can doubt that

Mr. Lorry

If you should then be dissatisfied with it, you can but test its soundness for yourself; if, on the other hand, you should be satisfied with it, and it should be what it now is, it may spare all sides what is best spared. What do you say?

Mr. Lorry

Indeed! You are a pretty fellow to objet and advise! You sit you were going yourself? And you a Frenchman born? You are a wise counsellor.

Mr. Lorry

It is the case of a shock from which he has recovered, so completely, as to be a highly intelligent man, capable of close application of mind, and great exertion of body, and of constantly making fresh additions to his stock of knowledge, which was already very large. But, unfortunately, there has been," he paused and took a deep breath—"a slight relapse

Mr. Lorry

It is the case of a shock from which the sufferer recovered, by a process that he cannot trace himself—as I once heard him publicly relate in a striking manner.

Mr. Lorry

My dear Charles, you touch some of the reasons for my not going: not for my staying away. I tis safe enough for me; nobody will care to interfere with an old fellow of hard bon fourscore when there are so many people there much better worth interfering with

Mr. Lorry

My dear Manette, I am anxious to have your opinion, in confidence, on a very curious case in which I am deeply interested; that is to say, it is very curious to me; perhaps, to your better information it may be less so

Mr. Lorry

My dear Manette, it is the case of an old and a prolonged shock, of great acuteness and severity to the affections, the feelings, the—the—as you express it—the mind.

Mr. Lorry

My love to Lucie and to little Lucie, and take precious care of them till I come back

Mr. Lorry

My meaning, is, of course, friendly and appreciative, and that it does you the greatest credit, and—in short, my meaning is everything you could desire.

Mr. Lorry

My tea, my dear! Thank ye. Now, come and take your place in the circle, and let us sit quiet, and hear the echoes about which you have your theory

Mr. Lorry

No. I have referred it, I think, to everybody now here, and no one can tell me where this gentleman is to be found

Mr. Lorry

No. It has been kept from her, and I hope will always be kept from her. It is known only to myself, and to one other who may be trusted

Mr. Lorry

Nobody will suspect Jerry of being anything but an English bull-dog, or of having any design in his head but to fly at anybody who touches his master.

Mr. Lorry

Not exactly so. I mean to tell you, that I will hear no disrespectful of that young lady from my lips; and that if I knew any man- which I hope I do not- whose taste was so coarse, nd whose temper was so overbearing, that he could not restrain himself from speaking disrespectfully of that young lady at this desk, not even Tellson's should prevent my giving him a piece of my mind

Mr. Lorry

Now understand me, As a man of business, I am not justified in saying anything about this matter, for, as a man of business, I know nothing of it.

Mr. Lorry

Now, I hear Somebody's step coming to the door. Let me kiss my dear girl with an old-fashioned bachelor blessing, before Somebody comes to claim his own

Mr. Lorry

Now, a judicious selection from these with the least possible delay, and the burying of them, or otherwise getting of them out of harm's way, is within the power (without loss of precious time) of scarcely any one but myself, if any one.

Mr. Lorry

Now, to what would you refer this attack?

Mr. Lorry

Oh dear yes! Yes. Oh yes, you're eligible! If you say eligible, you are eligible.

Mr. Lorry

Oh! It is only a question of a few hours. I could go to Soho in the evening, and come to your chambers afterwards

Mr. Lorry

Our customers over there, seem not to be able to confide their property to us fast enough. There is positively a mania among some of them for sending it to England

Mr. Lorry

Papers and precious matters were this very day brought to us here (I speak in strict confidence; it is not business-like to whisper it, even to you), by the strangest bearers you can imagine, every one of whom had his head hanging on by a single hair as he passed the Barriers

Mr. Lorry

Really? Well; but don't cry

Mr. Lorry

Thank ye, my dear. The precious child is safe in bed

Mr. Lorry

That I will, and readily, if it is not dangerous

Mr. Lorry

That's right; all safe and well! I don't know why anything should be otherwise than safe and well here, thank God; but I have been so put out all day, and I am not as young as I was!

Mr. Lorry

The Lord above knows what the compromising consequences would be to numbers of people, if some of our documents were seized or destroyed; and they might be, at any time, you know, for who can say that Paris is not set afire to-day, or sacked to-morrow!

Mr. Lorry

The mind. It is the case of a shock under which the sufferer was borne down, one cannot say for how long, because I believe he cannot calculate the time himself, and there are no other means of getting at it.

Mr. Lorry

The occupation resumed under the influence of this passing affliction so happily recovered from, we will call- Blacksmith's work, Blacksmith's work.

Mr. Lorry

The young lady goes before all

Mr. Lorry

Then, I think, that I was very unhandsomely dealt with, and that I ought to have had a voice in the selection of my pattern. Enough!

Mr. Lorry

There are two other points, on which I am anxious to be instructed. I may go on?

Mr. Lorry

There is no man in this world on whom I could so rely for right guidance, as on you. Tell me, how does this relapse come about? Is there danger of another?

Mr. Lorry

This is an occasion that makes a man speculate on all he has lost. Dear, dear, dear! To think that there might have been a Mrs. Lorry, any time these fifty years almost!

Mr. Lorry

To the first, then. He is of a studious habit, and unusually energetic; he applies himself with great ardour to the acquisition of professional knowledge, to the conducting of experiments, to many things. Now, does he do too much?

Mr. Lorry

Tut! None, sir! And, my dear Charles, you are to remember that getting things out of Paris at this present time, no matter what things, is next to an impossibility.

Mr. Lorry

Very good. Then I give it, and you have repeated it correctly

Mr. Lorry

We will say, to put a case and for the sake of illustration, that he had been used, in his bad time, to work at a little forge. We will say that he was unexpectedly found at his forge again. Is it not a pity that he should keep it by him?

Mr. Lorry

What I suppose, I claim to characterize of myself and understand me sir, I will not even at Tellson' shave it characterized for me by any gentleman breathing

Mr. Lorry

What is his name?

Mr. Lorry

When I speak of success, I speak of success with the young lady; and when I speak of causes and reasons to make success probable, I speak of causes and reasons that will tell as such with the young lady. The young lady, my good sir

Mr. Lorry

When you were talking to Lucie. Yes I wonder you are not ashamed to mention the name of Lucie! Wishing you were going to France at this time of day!

Mr. Lorry

Will you go out?

Mr. Lorry

Will you undertake to explain, that we suppose it to have been addressed here, on the chance of our knowing where to forward it, and that it has been here some time?

Mr. Lorry

Would he remember what took place in the relapse?

Mr. Lorry

Would he, be sensibly relived if he could prevail upon himself to impart that secret brooding to any one, when it is one him?

Mr. Lorry

You do not find it easy to advise him? I quite understand it to be nice question. And yet I think-

Mr. Lorry

You know me, my dear friend? Think again. This is not your proper occupation. Think, dear friend!

Mr. Lorry

You know the terms upon which I have the honour and happiness to stand with the family. If you please, committing you in no way, representing you in no way, I will undertake to correct my advice by the exercise of a little new observation and judgment expressly brought to bear upon it.

Mr. Lorry

You leave your good father, my dear, in hands as earnest and as loving as your own; he shall be taken every conceivable care of; during the next fortnight, while you are in Warwickshire and thereabouts, even Tellson's shall go to the wall (comparatively speaking) before him.

Mr. Lorry

You think there never might have been a Mrs. Lorry?

Mr. Lorry

am a mere man of business, and unfit to cope with such intricate and difficult matters. I do not possess the kind of information necessary; I do not possess the kind of intelligence; I want guiding.

Mr. Lorry

I try to be a good wife, Jerry

Mrs. Cruncher

You hadn't taken to the dreadful business then

Mrs. Cruncher

You are going out tonight?

Mrs. Curncher

We have new laws, Evremonde, and new offences, since you were here

Officer at French gates

Without doubt. You are consigned, Evremonde, to the prison of La Force.

Officer at French gates

Where are the papers of this prisoner?

Patriot officer

Everybody says it is but one of several, and that there will be others—if there are not already—banishing all emigrants, and condemning all to death who return. That is what he meant when he said your life was not your own

Postmaster

Let him be! Let him be! He will be judged at Paris

Postmaster

What do I know! There may be, or there will be. It is all the same. What would you have?

Postmaster

I will faithfully, if you will come with me. But there is no one there.

Prison officer

It must burn

Prison officers

Choice! Listen to him! As if it was not a favour to be protected from the lamp-iron!

Revolutionary

Silence! Peace, aristocrat!

Revolutionary

Monseigneur, it is nothing. The trees and the night are all that are here

Servant

And all I can say of it is, that this ha, ha! beats everything past, present and to come

Stryver

And now, my way out of this, is, to put you all in the wrong

Stryver

Are you mixing that other bowl of punch?

Stryver

But no gentlemen, I know something of human nature, and I tell you that you'll never find a fellow like this fellow, trusting himself to the mercies of such precious PROTEGES.

Stryver

Come! Though I don't prefer any claim to being the soul of Romance, still I am a tenderer sort of fellow than YOU

Stryver

D--n ME! But this beats everything!

Stryver

D--n it all, sir! Am I not eligible?

Stryver

Do you, by Jupiter? I am sorry for it

Stryver

Here's a man of business—a man of years—a man of experience—IN a Bank and having summed up three leading reasons for complete success, he says there's no reason at all! Says it with his head on!

Stryver

Hey? Did he though? Is that the sort of fellow? Let us look at this infamous name. D--n the fellow!

Stryver

I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette

Stryver

I assure you, that I am sorry for it on your account, and sorry for it on the poor father's account. I know this must always be a sore subject with the family; let us say no more about it

Stryver

I dare say not, no matter, no matter

Stryver

I do it because it's politic; I do it on principle. And look at me! I get on

Stryver

I don't mean that. I mean I am a man of more- more

Stryver

I have had enough of this style of life, with no other as a change from it; I feel that it is a pleasant thing for a man to have a home when he feels inclined to go to it (when he doesn't, he can stay away), and I feel that Miss Manette will tell well in any station, and will always do me credit.

Stryver

I tell you, I regret it on account of others, but I am satisfied on my own account. And I am really very much obliged to you for allowing me to sound you, and for giving me your advice; you know the young lady better than I do; you were right, it never would have done.

Stryver

I understand how to put YOU in a corner, Mr. Darnay, and I'll do it. f this fellow is a gentleman, I DON'T understand him. You may tell him so, with my compliments.

Stryver

Look at me! I have less need to make myself agreeable than you have, being more independent in circumstances. Why do I do it?

Stryver

Make the best of it, my dear sir, say no more about it; thank you again for allowing me to sou you; good night!

Stryver

Mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you

Stryver

Mr. Lorry, you cannot control the mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be disappointed. Now, pray say no more about it.

Stryver

Never mind your having no enjoyment of women's society, nor understanding of it, nor tact for it. Find out somebody. Find out some respectable woman with a little property—somebody in the landlady way, or lodging-letting way—and marry her, against a rainy day. That's the kind of thing for YOU

Stryver

No it doesn't; I assure you it doesn't. Having supposed that there was sense where there is no sense, and a laudable ambition where there is not a laudable ambition, I am well out of my mistake, and no harm is done.

Stryver

No, gentlemen; he'll always show 'em a clean pair of heels very early in the scuffle, and sneak away

Stryver

No; but before I go on, I'll have this out with you. You have been at Doctor Manette's house as much as I have, or more than I have

Stryver

Not I! I can't undertake to find third parties in common sense; I can only find it for myself. I suppose sense in certain quarters; you suppose mining bread and butter nonsense. It's new to me, but you are right, id are say

Stryver

Now look here! I am going to tell you something that will rather surprise you, and that perhaps will make you think me not quite as screwed as you usually do think me. I intend to marry

Stryver

Now you know all about it, I don't care about fortune: she is a charming creature, and I have made up my mind to please myself: on the whole, I think I can afford to please myself

Stryver

Now, don't let my announcement of the name make you uncomfortable, because I know you don't mean half you say; and if you meant it all, it would be of no importance. I make this little preface, because you once mentioned the young lady to me in slighting terms.

Stryver

Now, let me recommend to you, to look it in the face. I have looked it in the face, in my different way; look it in the face, you, in your different way. Marry. Provide somebody to take care of you.

Stryver

Oh dear me, sir? Oh dear you, sir? What may your meaning be!

Stryver

She will have in me a man already pretty well off, and a rapidly rising man, and a man of some distinction: it is a piece of good fortune for her, but she is worthy of good fortune. Are you astonished?

Stryver

So I have made up my mind. And now, Sydney, old boy, I want to say a word to YOU about YOUR prospects. You are in a bad way, you know; you really are in a bad way. You don't know the value of money, you live hard, you'll knock up one of these days, and be ill and poor; you really ought to think about a nurse.

Stryver

Then I say yes, I won't go up there now, I am not so hot upon it as that comes to; I say yes, and I shall expect you to look in tonight. Good morning.

Stryver

Then I tell you again, Mr. Darnay, I am sorry for it. I am sorry to hear you putting any such extraordinary questions. Here is a fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code of devilry that ever was known, abandoned his property to the vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows him?

Stryver

Then what on earth is your meaning?

Stryver

Then you mean to tell me, Mr. Lorry, that it is your deliberate opinion that the young lady at present in question is a mincing Fool?

Stryver

There is no harm at all done. I have not proposed to the young lady, and, between ourselves, I am by no means certain, on reflection, that I ever should have committed myself to that extent.

Stryver

This is something new to me, Mr. Lorry. You deliberately advise me not to go up to Soho and offer myself—MYself, Stryver of the King's Bench bar?

Stryver

Well then, I'll tell you. I rather despair making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog

Stryver

Well! I'll say gallantry. My meaning is that I am a man who cares more to be agreeable, who takes more pains to be agreeable, who knows better how to be agreeable, in a woman's society, than you do.

Stryver

Well! If I understand you, I'll be hanged

Stryver

Well! You take it more easily than I fancied you would, and are less mercenary on my behalf than I thought you would be; though, to be sure, you know well enough by this time that your ancient chum is a man of a pretty strong will.

Stryver

Well, but I'll answer you. I am sorry because I believe there is contamination in such a scoundrel. That's why

Stryver

Why, I have been ashamed of your moroseness there! Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you

Stryver

Why, Mr. Darnay? Did ye hear what he did? Don't ask why, in these times

Stryver

Why, no, thank you; this is a private visit to yourself, I have come for a private word

Stryver

Why? Now i"ll put you in a corner, You are a man of business and bound to have a reason. State your reason. Why wouldn't you go?

Stryver

You have no business to be incorrigible

Stryver

You made mention of the young lady as a golden-haired doll. The young lady is Miss Manette. If you had been a fellow of any sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling in that kind of way, Sydney, I might have been a little resentful of your employing such a designation; but you are not.

Stryver

You may also tell him, from me, that after abandoning his worldly goods and position to this butcherly mob, I wonder he is not at the head of them.

Stryver

You shall not get off in that way, no, Sydney, it's my duty to tell you- and I tell you to your face to do you good- that you are a devilish ill-conditioned fellow in that sort of society. You are a disagreeable fellow

Stryver

You shall not put me in the wrong, young lady

Stryver

You want that sense altogether; therefore I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures: or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music

Stryver

Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. In an unselfish aspect, I am sorry that the thing is dropped, because it would have been a bad thing for me in a worldly point of view; in a selfish aspect, I am glad that the thing has dropped, because it would have been a bad thing for me in a worldly point of view—it is hardly necessary to say I could have gained nothing by it

Stryver

Hark! Listen, then! Who comes?

The Vengeance

Is it a good sign, that he wishes to see Royalty and Nobility?

Jacques

It was one when you were more than ten years old; you might have seen it

Jacques

Listen once again then, Jacques! The name of that prisoner was Damiens, and it was all done in open day, in the open streets of this city of Paris; and nothing was more noticed in the vast concourse that saw it done, than the crowd of ladies of quality and fashion, who were full of eager attention to the last—to the last, Jacques, prolonged until nightfall, when he had lost two legs and an arm, and still breathed! And it was done—why, how old are you?

Jacques

Good! You have acted and recounted faithfully. Will you wait for us a little, outside the door?

Jacques One

Know that a petition was presented to the King and Queen. All here, yourself excepted, saw the King take it, in his carriage in the street, sitting beside the Queen. It is Defarge whom you see here, who, at the hazard of his life, darted out before the horses, with the petition in his hand

Jacques One

The chateau, and all the race?

Jacques One

And once again listen, Jacques! The guard, horse and foot, surrounded the petitioner, and struck him blows. You hear?

Jacques Three

Are you sure, that no embarrassment can arise form our manner of keeping the register? Without doubt it is safe, for no one beyond ourselves can decipher it; but shall we always be able to decipher it—or, I ought to say, will she?

Jacques Two

Business is very bad; the people are so poor

Madame Defarge

But my dear! but my dear! You are faint of hear tonight, my dear!

Madame Defarge

You do me too much honor, still I prefer that supposition

Marquis

You have been a long time coming

Marquis

But I do, and you must take my word for it. Well! If you could endure to have such a worthless fellow, and a fellow of such indifferent reputation, coming and going at odd times, I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as an useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.

Carton

Ah! On the drunken occasion in question (one of a large number, as you know), I was insufferable about liking you. I wish you would forget it.

Carton

And you, are such a sensitive and poetical spirit

Carton

As to the great service, I am bound to avow to you, when you speak of it in that way, that it was mere professional claptrap, I don't know that I cared what became of you, when I rendered it. —Mind! I say when I rendered it; I am speaking of the past.

Carton

Be comforted! But, within myself, I shall always be, towards you, what I am now, though outwardly I shall be what you have heretofore seen me. The last supplication but one I make to you, is, that you will believe this of me.

Carton

Be comforted! I am not worth such feeling Miss Manette. An hour or two hence, and the low companions and low habits that i scorn yield to, will render me less worth such tears as those, than any wretch who creeps along the streets

Carton

Be under no apprehension, Miss Manette, of my ever resuming this conversation by so much as a passing word. I will never refer to it again. If I were dead, that could not be surer than it is henceforth.

Carton

Is well and your return will delight us all. She has gone out on some household matters, but will soon be home

Dr Manette

(There was a time in my imprisonment, when my desire for vengeance was unbearable.) Whether it was a son who would never know his father's story; who might even live to weigh the possibility of his father's having disappeared of his own will and act. Whether it was a daughter who would grow to be a woman

Dr. Manette

A young lady's walking shoe, It ought to have been finished long ago. Let it be.

Dr. Manette

After what has happened, and after his recovery, I find it difficult to imagine any such violent sounding of that string again. I trust, and I almost believe, that the circumstances likely to renew it are exhausted.

Dr. Manette

Nine day sand nights

Lorry

Will you take charge of the letter? You know where to deliver it/

Lorry

We shall have helped it, Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see the triumph. But even if not, even if I knew certainly not, show me the neck of an aristocrat and tyrant, and still I would—

Madame Defare

And I am very happy to-night, dear father. I am deeply happy in the love that Heaven has so blessed—my love for Charles, and Charles's love for me. But, if my life were not to be still consecrated to you, or if my marriage were so arranged as that it would part us, even by the length of a few of these streets, I should be more unhappy and self-reproachful now than I can tell you. Even as it is

Lucie

And, O my dearest Love!" she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, "remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!

Lucie

Dearest dear! Can you tell me, this last time, that you feel quite, quite sure, no new affections of mine, and no new duties of mine, will ever interpose between us? I know it well, but do you know it? In your own heart, do you feel quite certain?

Lucie

I am that child, I hope, my father. O my dear, my dear, will you bless me as fervently tomorrow?

Lucie

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

Lucie

I know you would say this to no one else. Can I turn it to no good account for yourself, Mr. Carton?

Lucie

I think, Charles, poor Mr. Carton deserves more consideration and respect than you expressed for him to-night

Lucie

I was that child, my father, I was not half so good, but in my love that was I

Lucie

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

Lucie

If I had never seen Charles, I should have been quite happy with you

Lucie

If it will do you any good, Mr. Carton, if it would make you happier, it would make me very glad!

Lucie

If that will be a consolation to you, yes

Lucie

My father! Even to hear that you had such thoughts of a daughter who never existed, strikes to my heart as if I had been that child

Lucie

No, Mr. Carton. I am sure that the best part of it might still be; I am sure that you might be much, much worthier of yourself

Lucie

Since it is my misfortune, Mr. Carton, to have made you more unhappy than you were before you knew me—

Lucie

Since the state of your mind that you describe, is, at all events, attributable to some influence of mine—this is what I mean, if I can make it plain—can I use no influence to serve you? Have I no power for good, with you, at all?

Lucie

The figure was not; the—the—image; the fancy?

Lucie

The secret is yours, not mine; and I promise to respect it

Lucie

Which I entreated you to believe, again and again, most fervently, with all my heart, was capable of better things, Mr. Carton!

Lucie

Will nothing of it remain? O Mr. Carton, thank again! Try again!

Lucie

Will you promise not to press one question on me, if I beg you not to ask it?

Lucie

Without it, can I not save you, Mr. Carton? Can I not recall you—forgive me again! —to a better course? Can I in no way repay your confidence? I know this is a confidence

Lucie

Yes, dearest Charles, we are rather thoughtful tonight, for we have something on our mind tonight

Lucie

As to you, you would shout and shed tears for anything, if it made a show and noise. Say! Would you not?

Madame Defarge

A Doctor with a daughter. Yes. So commences the new philosophy! You are fatigued. Good night!

Marquis

A compliment, to the grandeur of the family, merited by the manner in which the family has sustained its grandeur. Hah!

Marquis

A good opportunity for consideration, surrounded by the advantages of solitude, might influence your destiny to far greater advantage than you influence it for yourself.

Marquis

Ah! It is not probable he will arrive to-night; nevertheless, leave the table as it is. I shall be ready in a quarter of an hour

Marquis

And burn Monsieur my nephew in his bed, if you will

Marquis

And you? Forgive my curiosity; do you, under your new philosophy, graciously intend to live?

Marquis

Are they both yours to renounce? France may be, but is the property? It is scarcely worth mentioning, but , is it?

Marquis

Ask who is arrived

Marquis

Better to be a rational creature, and accept your natural destiny. But you are lost, Monsieur Charles, I see

Marquis

But it is useless to discuss the question. I am, as you say, at a disadvantage.

Marquis

Death has done that!

Marquis

England is very attractive to you, seeing how indifferently you have prospered there

Marquis

From this room, many such dogs have been taken out to be hanged; in the next room (my bedroom), one fellow, to our knowledge, was poniarded on the spot for professing some insolent delicacy respecting his daughter—his daughter?

Marquis

Good, Close them again

Marquis

I am cool now, and may go to bed

Marquis

I do not quite understand, Dare I ask you to explain?

Marquis

I look to the pleasure of seeing you again in the morning. Good repose! Light Monsieur my nephew to his chamber there!—

Marquis

I would not say happily, my friend. I would not be sure of that.

Marquis

It is possible, For the honor of the family, I could even resolve to incommode you to that extent. Pray excuse me!

Marquis

Let us hope so, Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low

Marquis

Meanwhile, I will preserve the honor and repose of the family, if you will not. But you must be fatigued. Shall we terminate our conference for the night?

Marquis

My friend, I told you so, Do me the favor to recall that I told you so, long ago

Marquis

My friend, I will die, perpetuating the system under which I lived

Marquis

My nephew, they said he was not arrived

Marquis

Not to death, it is not necessary to say, to death

Marquis

Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar.

Marquis

Outside the blinds. Open the blinds

Marquis

Pardon me! I mean, not a long time on the journey; a long time intending the journey

Marquis

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof, shuts out the sky

Marquis

Seeking them from me, my nephew, you will for ever seek them in vain, be assured

Marquis

These little instruments of correction, these gentle aids to the power and honour of families, these slight favours that might so incommode you, are only to be obtained now by interest and importunity.

Marquis

They are sought by so many, and they are granted (comparatively) to so few! It used not to be so, but France in all such things is changed for the worse.

Marquis

They say, those boastful English, that it is the Refuge of many. You know a compatriot who has found a Refuge there? A Doctor?

Marquis

WE have done wrong?

Marquis

We have lost many privileges; a new philosophy has become the mode; and the assertion of our station, in these days, might (I do not go so far as to say would, but might) cause us real inconvenience. All very bad, very bad!

Marquis

Which I have the vanity to hope is not probable

Marquis

You are fatigued. Good night!

Marquis

And you were cut out for a bachelor, before you were put in your cradle.

Miss Pross

I am not crying, YOU are

Miss Pross

O me, O me! All is lost! What is to be told to Ladybird? He doesn't know me, and is making shoes!

Miss Pross

Pooh! You were a bachelor in your cradle

Miss Pross

There's not a fork or spoon in the collection that I didn't cry over last night after the box came, till I couldn't see it

Miss Pross

You didn't mean it, and therefore how could you know it? Nonsense!

Miss Pross

You were, just now; I saw you do it, and I don't wonder at it. Such a present of plate as you have made 'em, is enough to bring tears into anybody's eyes.

Miss Pross