日期：2023-10-16 A PLEA When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home many hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or in looks, or in manner;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 AN OPINION Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun into the room where a slumber had overtaken him when it was dark night. He rubbed his eyes an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 NINE DAYS The marriage-day was shining brightly, and they were ready outside the closed door of the Doctors room, where he was speaking with Charles Darnay. They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Prossto whom the e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 ONE NIGHT Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in Soho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat under the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder radiance over great London, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 STILL KNITTING Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 KNITTING There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine- shop of Monsieur Defarge. As early as six oclock in the morning, sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over measures of wine. Monsieu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE HONEST TRADESMAN To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in Fleet Street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who could sit upon anything in Fleet Street... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE FELLOW OF NO DELICACY If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he cared to talk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE FELLOW OF DELICACY Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctors daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental debating of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 A COMPANION PICTURE Sydney, said Mr. Stryver, on that selfsame night, or morning, to his jackal; mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you, Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 TWO PROMISES More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he would have been a Professor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 9 The Gorgons Head IT was a heavy mass of building, that ch?ateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone court-yard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony business alto... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 8 Monseigneur in the Country A BEAUTIFUL landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On ina... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 7 Monseigneur in Town MONSEIGNEUR, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 6 Hundreds of People THE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried it,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 5 The Jackal THOSE were drinking days, and moot men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 4 Congratulatory FROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the def... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 3 A Disappointment MR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the public enemy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 2 A Sight `YOU know the Old Bailey well, no doubt? said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger. `Ye-es, sir, returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. `I do know the Bailey. `Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry. `I know Mr. Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 BOOK THE SECOND THE GOLDEN THREAD CHAPTER I Five Years Later TELLSONS Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fa... 阅读全文>>