A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

believe this of me."

I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.

think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!"

Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher,

Mrs. Cruncher must have been "flopping"

funeral of one Roger Cly.

a crowd in those times stopped at nothing, and was a monster much dreaded.

deceased Roger Cly

sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.

Impelled by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery of his father's honest calling,

large churchyard that they were in—

they began to fish.

with a spade, at first.

"what's a Resurrection-Man?"

"How should I know?"

"I thought you knowed everything, father," said the artless boy.

"Hem! ...

"he's a trad...

Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times,

criminal's gaol. Games

players at dominoes

drinkers drew figures on the tables with spil...

this good mender of roads, called Jacques.

garret,—formerly the garret where a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes.

three men were there who had gone out of the wine-shop singly.

"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!"

prisoner was Damiens,

"Thirty-five," said the mender of roads, who looked sixty.

the register

Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols,

the knitted register of Madame Defarge."

"For instance," returned Madame Defarge, composedly, "shrouds."

large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen

two fine dints were pointed out in the sculptured nose,

Monsieur the Marquis

"Barsad,"

"John Barsad,"

Defarge,

admiring, but never interfering;

in which con...

to the business...

domestic affairs, he walked up and down...

Vengeance and retribution require a long time;

"Nothing that we do, is done in vain.

we shall see the triumph.

She said, however, that the cognac was flattered,

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

"A bad business this, madame, of Gaspard's execution.

name. I am Ernest Defarge."

Charles Darnay. D'Aulnais is the name of his mother's family."