23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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....

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...

23-10-16 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...