日期:2023-10-16 The last goodbyes At that same hour in the early afternoon a coach going out of Paris drives up to the gates of the city. Who goes there? Show us your papers!The guard looks at the papers. Alexandre Manette, Doctor. Which is he? This is Dr Manette... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE FOOTSTEPS DIE OUT FOR EVER A long the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the days wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE KNITTING DONE In that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited their fate, Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury. Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with the... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 FIFTY-TWO In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea. Before th... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 DARKNESS Sydney Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go. At Tellsons banking-house at nine, he said, with a musing face. Shall I do well, in the meantime, to show myself? I think so. It is best that these people should know there... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 DUSK The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die. Fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must u... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SHADOW I Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Pariswrite this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year 1767. I write it at stolen... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE GAME MADE While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesmans manner of receiving the... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 A HAND AT CARDS Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her way along the narrow streets and crossed the river by the bridge of the Pont-Neuf, reckoning in her mind the number of indispensable purchases she had to make.... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 A KNOCK AT THE DOOR I have saved him. It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her. All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 TRIUMPH The dread Tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The standard gaoler-joke was Come out... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE WOOD-SAWYER One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husbands head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, fill... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 CALM IN STORM Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not until long after... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE SHADOW One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr. Lorry when business hours came round, was this:that he had no right to imperil Tellsons by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under the Bank roof. His own po... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE GRINDSTONE Tellsons Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was in a wing of a large house, approached by a court-yard and shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to a great nobleman who had... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 IN SECRET The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from England in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad horses, he would have encountered to del... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 DRAWN TO THE LOADSTONE ROCK In such risings of fire and risings of seathe firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on the shoreth... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 FIRE RISES There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the high way such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his poor ignorant soul and his... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 THE SEA STILL RISES Haggard Saint Antoine had only one exultant week in which to soften his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with the relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame Defarge sat at her counte... 阅读全文>>

日期:2023-10-16 ECHOING FOOTSTEPS A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound her husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and companion, in a life of... 阅读全文>>

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