A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

the period was so far like the present period,

In both countries it was clearer than crystal

that things in general were settled for ever.

Mrs. Southcott

to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.

there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and

protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night;

one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

carried their divine rights with a high hand.

He walked up hill

because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop,

some brute animals are endued with Reason;

Two other passengers, besides the one,

All three were wrapped to the cheekbones

Not one of the three could have said, from anything he saw, what either of ...

hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from...

guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, that Friday night in November,

guard suspected the passengers,

passengers suspected one another and the guard, they

all suspected everyb...

coachman was sure of nothing but...

any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness,

would have put himself in a fair way of getting shot instantly as a highwayman.

"Is that the Dover mail?"

want a passenger,

"Mr. Jarvis Lorry."

"Who wants me?

Jerry?"

Mr. Lorry."

belong to Tellson's Bank.

Wait at Dover for Mam'selle.'

Jerry, say that my answer was, RECALLED TO LIFE."

every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

His message perplexed his mind

he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head.

more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair,

best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.

the message he was to deliver to the night watchman in his box at the d...

who was to deliver it to greater autho...

bulky bundle of opposite passenger,

The rattle of the harness was the chink of money, and more drafts were honoured in five minutes than even Tellson's, with all its foreign and home connection, ever paid in thrice the time.

Royal George Hotel

one adventurous traveller left be congratulated: for the two others had been set down at their

kennel. Mr. Lorry,

Concord bed-chamber

one kind of man was seen to go into it, all kinds and varieties of men came out of it.

He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it,

principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

young lady who may come here at any time to-day.