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>>

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>>