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here tonight. This evening,

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we are returning to

3:28

a tale of two

3:31

cities. Close your eyes.

3:33

and take a deep,

3:36

slow breath in. Then

3:38

exhale, letting go of

3:41

the weight from the

3:44

day. Picture yourself lying

3:46

in a calm, serene

3:49

space. Soft, cool sheets

3:51

around you. The world

3:54

cool sheets around you.

3:57

The world outside. quiet

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feel your body

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4:11

relaxation, as if

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the bed is

4:16

gently holding you,

4:18

supporting you. Let

4:21

the tension in

4:23

your body melt

4:26

away, starting from

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your feet. and

4:31

rising up through

4:34

your legs. You'll

4:36

torso, your shoulders.

4:39

Feel your mind

4:41

quiet. Every breath

4:44

draws you deeper

4:47

into stillness. Every

4:49

exhale takes you

4:52

closer to relaxation.

4:54

You feel safe.

4:58

and peaceful. In the

5:00

streets of Saint Antoine

5:02

in Paris, a cask

5:04

of wine had broken

5:07

in front of a

5:09

wine shop and people

5:11

had come out to

5:13

scoop it up as

5:15

best they could, drinking

5:18

out of their hands

5:20

or even soaking it

5:22

up on rags to

5:24

squeeze into their mouths.

5:27

It was a poor

5:29

suburb. like many others

5:31

at the time, where

5:33

people were hungry and

5:35

anger was bubbling beneath

5:38

the surface. Mr. Lorry

5:40

and Miss Manette were

5:42

seated inside the wine

5:44

shop. The owner, Monsieur

5:46

Defage, and his wife,

5:49

were overseeing the customers.

5:51

Monsieur Defage directed the

5:53

three men sat at

5:55

the bar, out of

5:58

the back and upstairs.

6:00

Just before Mr. Lorry

6:02

came to ask for

6:04

a moment of his

6:06

talk... Monsieur Defage led

6:09

Mr. Lorry and Miss

6:11

Manette out of the

6:13

back of the shop

6:15

and they began to

6:18

mount staircase after staircase

6:20

in the tall apartment

6:22

building. Miss Manate's father

6:24

had been placed in

6:26

the wine shop keeper's

6:29

care with the utmost

6:31

discretion. The building was

6:33

down trodden. with bags

6:35

of refuse on every

6:37

landing. They finally reached

6:40

the garret, where the

6:42

man took out some

6:44

keys from his pocket.

6:46

Mr. Lorry asked why

6:49

the door would be

6:51

locked, and he explained

6:53

that the man inside

6:55

had been imprisoned so

6:57

long, it was for

7:00

his own good. They

7:02

approached the door to

7:04

find the three men

7:06

from the bar. peaking

7:09

through holes in the

7:11

wall, like Monsieur Manette

7:13

was being shown as

7:15

a spectacle. The garret

7:17

room was dark, save

7:20

for one small French

7:22

window, boarded up against

7:24

the cold. A man

7:26

with white hair sat

7:28

on the edge of

7:31

a bed, making shoes

7:33

in the dim light.

7:35

And that is just

7:37

where we pick up

7:40

tonight. So lie back

7:42

and relax as I

7:44

turn to the next

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pages of A Tale

7:48

of Two Cities. Chapter

7:51

6 The Shoemaker Good

7:57

day said Monsieur Defarge

7:59

looking down at the

8:01

white tad that bent

8:04

low over the shoemaking.

8:06

It was raised for

8:09

a moment, and a

8:11

very faint voice responded

8:14

to the salutation, as

8:16

if it were to

8:18

distance. Good do? You

8:21

are still out at

8:23

work, I see. After

8:26

a long silence. The

8:28

head was lifted for

8:30

another moment and the

8:33

voice replied, Yes, I

8:35

am working. This time

8:38

a pair of haggard

8:40

eyes had looked at

8:43

the questioner before the

8:45

face had dropped again.

8:47

The faintness of the

8:50

voice was pitiable and

8:52

dreadful. It

8:55

was not the faintness

8:57

of physical weakness, though

9:00

confinement and hard fair

9:02

no doubt had their

9:04

part in it. Its

9:06

deplorable peculiarity was that

9:09

it was the faintness

9:11

of solitude and disuse.

9:13

It was like the

9:15

last feeble echo of

9:17

a sound made long

9:20

and long ago. so

9:23

entirely had it lost

9:26

the life and resonance

9:28

of the human voice

9:31

that it affected the

9:33

senses like a once

9:36

beautiful color faded away

9:38

into a poor weak

9:40

stain. So sunken and

9:43

suppressed it was that

9:45

it was like a

9:48

voice underground. so

9:51

expressive it was of

9:53

a hopeless and lost

9:56

creature that a famished

9:59

traveler weird out by

10:01

lonely wandering in a

10:04

wilderness, would have remembered

10:06

home and friends in

10:09

such a tone before

10:12

lying down to die.

10:14

Some minutes of silent

10:17

work had passed, and

10:20

the haggard eyes had

10:22

looked up again. Not

10:25

with any interest or

10:27

curiosity. But with

10:30

a dull, mechanical perception,

10:32

beforehand, that the spot

10:34

where the only visitor

10:36

they were aware of

10:38

had stood, was not

10:40

yet empty. I warned,

10:43

said Defarge, who had

10:45

not removed his gaze

10:47

from the shoemaker, to

10:49

let a little more

10:51

light in you. You

10:53

can bear a little

10:55

more? The

10:58

shoemaker stopped his work, looked

11:01

with a vacant air of

11:03

listening at the floor on

11:06

one side of him, then

11:08

similarly at the floor on

11:11

the other side of him,

11:13

then upward at the speaker.

11:16

What did you say? You

11:18

can bear a little more

11:21

light. I must bear it,

11:23

if you let it in?

11:28

laying the palest shadow

11:30

of a stress upon

11:32

the second word. The

11:34

opened half-door was opened

11:36

a little further and

11:38

secured at that angle

11:40

for the time. A

11:43

broad ray of light

11:45

fell into the garret

11:47

and showed the workman

11:49

with an unfinished shoe

11:51

upon his lap, pausing

11:53

in his labour. his

11:57

few common tools and

11:59

their Scraps of leather

12:01

were at his feet

12:03

and on his bench.

12:06

He had a white

12:08

beard, raggedly cut, but

12:10

not very long. A

12:12

hollow face and exceedingly

12:15

bright eyes. The hollowness

12:17

and thinness of his

12:19

face would have caused

12:21

them to look large

12:24

under his yet dark

12:26

eyebrows. and his confused

12:28

white hair, though they

12:30

had been really otherwise,

12:33

but they were naturally

12:35

large and looked unnaturally

12:37

so. His yellow rags

12:39

of shirt lay open

12:42

at the throat and

12:44

showed his body to

12:46

be withered and worn.

12:48

He and his old

12:51

canvas frock and his

12:53

loose stockings. and all

12:55

his poor tatters of

12:57

clothes had in a

13:00

long seclusion from direct

13:02

light and air, faded

13:04

down to such a

13:06

dull uniformity of parchment

13:09

yellow that it would

13:11

have been hard to

13:13

say which was which.

13:15

He had put up

13:18

a hand between his

13:20

eyes and the light,

13:22

and the very bones

13:24

of it seemed transparent.

13:28

So he sat with

13:30

a steadfastly vacant gaze,

13:32

pausing in his work.

13:34

He never looked at

13:36

the figure before him,

13:38

without first looking down

13:41

on this side of

13:43

himself, then on that,

13:45

as if he had

13:47

lost the habit of

13:49

associating place with sound.

13:51

He never spoke, without

13:53

first wandering in this

13:56

manner. and forgetting to

13:58

speak. Are

14:01

you going to finish that

14:03

bare of shoes today? Asked

14:06

Defarge, motioning to Mr. Lorry

14:08

to come forward. What did

14:10

you say? Do you mean

14:12

to finish that bare of

14:15

shoes today? I can't say

14:17

that I mean too? I

14:19

suppose so. I don't know.

14:21

But the question reminded him

14:24

of his work. and he

14:26

bent over it again. Mr.

14:28

Lorry came silently forward, leaving

14:30

the daughter by the door.

14:33

When he had stood for

14:35

a minute or two by

14:37

the side of Defarge, the

14:39

shoemaker looked up. He showed

14:42

no surprise at seeing another

14:44

figure, but the unsteady fingers

14:46

of one of his hands

14:48

strayed to his hands strayed

14:51

to his lips. as he

14:53

looked at it. His lips

14:55

and his nails were of

14:57

the same pale lead colour.

15:00

And then the hand dropped

15:02

to his work, and he

15:04

once more bent over the

15:07

shoe. The look and the

15:09

action had occupied but an

15:11

instant. You have a visitor,

15:13

you see, said Monsieur Defage.

15:16

What did you say? What

15:18

did you say? What did

15:20

you say? What did you

15:22

say? What did you say?

15:25

What did you say? What

15:27

did you say? What did

15:29

you say? Here

15:31

is a visitor. The

15:33

shoemaker looked up as

15:36

before, but without removing

15:38

a hand from his

15:40

work. Come, said Defage.

15:42

Here is a monsieur

15:44

who knows a well-made

15:46

shoe when he sees

15:48

one. Show him the

15:50

shoe that you are

15:52

working at. Take it,

15:54

monsieur. Mr. Loring took

15:57

it in his hand.

16:00

Tell Monsieur what kind

16:02

of shoe it is,

16:04

and the maker's name.

16:06

There was a longer

16:08

pause than usual, before

16:10

the shoemaker replied. I

16:12

forget what it was

16:15

you asked me. What

16:17

did you say? I

16:19

said couldn't you describe

16:21

the kind of shoe

16:23

for Monsieur's information. It

16:25

is a lady's shoe.

16:29

It is a young

16:31

lady's walking shoe. It

16:33

is in the present

16:35

mode. I have a

16:38

pattern in my hand."

16:40

He glanced at the

16:42

shoe with some little

16:45

passing touch of pride.

16:47

And the megger's name

16:49

said Defarge. Now that

16:52

he had no work

16:54

to hold. He laid

16:56

the knuckles of the

16:59

right hand in the

17:01

hollow of the left,

17:03

then the knuckles of

17:06

the left hand in

17:08

the hollow of the

17:10

right, and then passed

17:13

a hand across his

17:15

bearded chin, and so

17:17

on in regular changes,

17:19

without a moment's intermission.

17:22

The task of recalling

17:24

him from the vagrancy

17:26

into which he always

17:29

sank when he had

17:31

spoken. was like recalling

17:33

some very weak person

17:36

from a swoon or

17:38

endeavoring in the hope

17:40

of some disclosure to

17:43

stay the spirit of

17:45

a fast-dying man. Did

17:47

you ask me for

17:50

my name? As surely

17:52

I did? 105 North

17:54

Tower. Is

17:57

that all? 100?

17:59

With a weary

18:01

sound that was

18:04

not a sigh

18:06

nor a groan,

18:08

he bent to

18:10

work again, until

18:13

the silence was

18:15

again broken. You

18:17

are not a

18:20

shoemaker by trade,

18:22

said Mr. Lorry,

18:24

looking steadfastly at

18:26

him. His

18:29

haggard eyes turned to

18:31

Defarge as if he

18:33

would have transferred the

18:35

question to him. But

18:37

as no help came

18:39

from that quarter, they

18:42

turned back on the

18:44

questioner when they had

18:46

sought the ground. I

18:48

am not a shoemaker

18:50

by trade. No. I

18:52

was not a shoemaker

18:54

by trade. I... I

18:56

learned it here. I

18:59

told myself. I asked

19:02

a leave tour. He

19:04

lapsed away, even for

19:06

minutes, wringing those measured

19:08

changes on his hands

19:10

the whole time. His

19:12

eyes came slowly back

19:15

at last, to the

19:17

face from which they

19:19

had wandered. When they

19:21

rested on it, he

19:23

started and resumed. in

19:25

the manner of a

19:28

sleeper, that moment awake,

19:30

reverting to a subject

19:32

of last night. I

19:34

asked Leave to teach

19:36

myself, and I got

19:38

it with much difficulty

19:41

after a long while,

19:43

and I have made

19:45

shoes ever since. As

19:47

he held out his

19:49

hand for the shoe

19:51

that had been taken

19:54

from him, Mr. Lorry

19:56

said, still looking steadfastly

19:58

in his face. Monsieur

20:01

Manette, do you remember

20:03

nothing of me? The

20:06

shoe dropped to the

20:08

ground and he sat

20:10

looking fixedly at the

20:12

questioner. Monsieur Manette, Mr.

20:14

Lorry laid his hand

20:17

upon Defarge's arm. Do

20:19

you remember nothing of

20:21

this man? Look at

20:23

him. Look at him.

20:26

Look at me. Look

20:28

at me. Is

20:31

there no old banker?

20:33

No old business? No

20:35

old servant? No old

20:38

time? Rising in your

20:40

mind, Miss Humonnet. As

20:42

the captive of many

20:45

years sat, looking fixedly

20:47

by turns at Mr.

20:49

Lorry and Defarge, some

20:52

long obliterated marks. of

20:54

an actively intent intelligence

20:56

in the middle of

20:59

the forehead gradually forced

21:01

themselves through the black

21:03

mist that had fallen

21:06

on him. They were

21:08

overclouded again. They were

21:10

fainter. They were gone,

21:13

but they had been

21:15

there. And so exactly

21:17

was the expression repeated

21:20

on the fair young

21:22

face. of her who

21:24

had crept along the

21:27

wall to a point

21:29

where she could see

21:31

him, and where she

21:34

now stood, looking at

21:36

him, with hands which

21:38

had first had only

21:41

been raised in frightened

21:43

compassion, if not even

21:45

to keep him off

21:48

and shut out the

21:50

sight of him, but

21:52

which were now extending

21:54

towards him, trembling with

21:57

eagerness. to lay this

21:59

spec. face upon her

22:01

warm, young breast and

22:04

love it back to

22:06

life and hope. So

22:08

exactly was the expression

22:11

repeated, though in stronger

22:13

characters on her fair

22:15

young face, that it

22:18

looked as though it

22:20

had passed like a

22:22

moving light from him

22:25

to her. Darkness

22:29

had fallen on him

22:31

in its place. He

22:34

looked at the two

22:36

less and less attentively,

22:38

and his eyes, in

22:41

gloomy abstraction, sought the

22:43

ground and looked about

22:45

him in the old

22:47

way. Finally, with a

22:50

deep, long sigh, he

22:52

took the shoe up

22:54

and resumed his work.

22:59

Have you recognized

23:01

him, Monsieur? Asked

23:03

Defange in a

23:05

whisper. Yes. For

23:07

a moment. At

23:09

first I thought

23:12

it quite hopeless.

23:14

But I have

23:16

unquestionably seen for

23:18

a single moment.

23:20

The face that

23:22

I once knew

23:24

so well. Ash.

23:27

Let us draw further

23:29

back us. She had

23:31

moved from the wall

23:34

of the garret, very

23:36

near to the bench

23:38

on which he sat.

23:40

There was something awful

23:42

in his unconsciousness of

23:44

the figure that could

23:46

have put out its

23:49

hand and touched him

23:51

as he stooped over

23:53

his labour. Not a

23:55

word was spoken. Not

23:58

a sound was made. She

24:01

stood like a spirit beside

24:04

him, and he bent over

24:06

his work. It happened at

24:09

length that he had occasion

24:11

to change the instrument in

24:14

his hand for his shoemaker's

24:16

knife. It lay on that

24:19

side of him, which was

24:21

not the side on which

24:24

she stood. He had taken

24:26

it up, and was stooping

24:29

to work again. when his

24:31

eyes caught the skirt of

24:34

her dress. He raised them

24:36

and saw her face. The

24:39

two spectators started forward, but

24:41

she stayed them with a

24:44

motion of her hand. She

24:46

had no fear of his

24:49

striking at her with the

24:51

knife, though they had. He

24:54

stared at her with a

24:56

fearful look. And

24:59

after a while, his

25:01

lips began to form

25:04

some words, though no

25:06

sound proceeded from them.

25:08

By degrees, in the

25:11

pauses of his quick

25:13

and labored breathing, he

25:16

was heard to say,

25:18

What is this? With

25:20

the tears streaming down

25:23

her face, she put

25:25

her two hands to

25:28

her lips. and kissed

25:30

them to him, then

25:32

clasped them on her

25:35

breast, as if she

25:37

laid his ruined head

25:40

there. You are not

25:42

the goless daughter? She

25:44

sighed. No. Who are

25:47

you? Not yet trusting

25:49

the tones of her

25:52

voice. She sat down

25:54

on the bench beside

25:56

him. He

25:59

recoiled. but

26:01

she laid her hand

26:03

upon his arm. A

26:06

strange thrill struck him

26:08

when she did so

26:10

and visibly passed over

26:13

his frame. He laid

26:15

the knife down softly

26:18

as he sat staring

26:20

at her. Her golden

26:22

hair, which she wore

26:25

in long curls, had

26:27

been hurriedly pushed aside.

26:29

and fell down over

26:32

her neck. Advancing his

26:34

hand by little and

26:37

little, he took it

26:39

up and looked at

26:41

it. In the midst

26:44

of the action he

26:46

went astray, and with

26:48

another deep sigh fell

26:51

to his work at

26:53

his shoemaking. But not

26:56

for long. releasing

26:58

his arm she laid

27:00

a hand upon his

27:02

shoulder. After looking doubtfully

27:04

at it two or

27:06

three times, as if

27:08

to be sure that

27:10

it was really there,

27:12

he laid down his

27:15

work, put his hand

27:17

to his neck, and

27:19

took off a blackened

27:21

string with a scrap

27:23

of folded rag attached

27:25

to it. He opened

27:27

this. He opened this.

27:29

carefully on his knee,

27:31

and it contained a

27:33

very little quantity of

27:35

hair, not more than

27:37

one or two long

27:40

golden hairs, which he

27:42

had in some old

27:44

day, wound off upon

27:46

his finger. He took

27:48

her hair into his

27:50

hand again and looked

27:52

closely at it. This

27:57

is the same. As

27:59

the concentrated expression returned

28:01

to his forehead, he

28:03

seemed to become conscious

28:05

that it was in

28:08

hers too. He turned

28:10

her full to the

28:12

light and looked at

28:14

her. She turned her

28:16

full to the light

28:18

and looked at her.

28:21

She had laid her

28:23

full to the light

28:25

and looked at her.

28:27

that night when I

28:29

was summoned out. She

28:31

had a fear of

28:33

my going though I

28:36

had none. And when

28:38

I was brought to

28:40

the North Tower, they

28:42

found these upon my

28:44

sleep. You will leave

28:46

them. They can never

28:49

help me to escape

28:51

in the Bodine, though

28:53

they may in the

28:55

spirit. Those

28:58

were the words I

29:00

said. I remember them

29:03

well. He formed this

29:05

speech with his lips

29:08

many times before he

29:10

could utter it. But

29:12

when he did find

29:15

spoken words for it,

29:17

they came to him

29:19

coherently though slowly. How

29:22

was this? Was it

29:24

you? Was it you?

29:29

Once more, the two

29:32

spectators started as he

29:34

turned upon her with

29:36

a frightful suddenness. But

29:38

she sat perfectly still

29:41

in his grasp and

29:43

only said in a

29:45

low voice, I entreat

29:48

you, good gentlemen, do

29:50

not come near us,

29:52

do not speak, do

29:54

not move. He

30:00

exclaimed, whose voice was

30:02

that? His hands released

30:05

hers, he uttered this

30:07

cry and went up

30:09

to his white hair,

30:11

which they tore in

30:13

a frenzy. It died

30:16

out, as everything but

30:18

his shoemaking did die

30:20

out of him, and

30:22

he refolded his little

30:25

packet and tried to

30:27

secure it in his

30:29

breast. But he still

30:31

looked at her. and

30:33

gloomily shook his head.

30:36

No, no, no. You

30:38

are too young, too

30:40

blooming, it can't be.

30:42

See, what the prisoner

30:45

is? These are not

30:47

the hands she knew.

30:49

This is not the

30:51

face she knew. This

30:54

is not a voice

30:56

she knew. She

30:58

was, he was before the

31:01

slow years of the North

31:03

Tower, ages ago. What is

31:05

your name, my gentle Enjur?

31:07

Hailing his softened tone and

31:09

manner, his daughter fell upon

31:12

her knees before him. with

31:14

her appealing hands upon his

31:16

breast. Oh, sir, at another

31:18

time you shall know my

31:21

name, and who my mother

31:23

was, and who my father,

31:25

and how I never knew

31:27

their heart, the heart of

31:30

history. I cannot tell you

31:32

at this time, and I

31:34

cannot tell you here. All

31:36

at the day may tell

31:38

you. Here and now is.

31:41

that I pray you to

31:43

touch me. And bless me,

31:45

kiss me, kiss me, oh

31:47

my dear, my dear. His

31:50

cold white head mingled with

31:52

her radiant hair, which warmed

31:54

and lighted, as though it

31:56

were the light of freedom

31:59

shining on him. If you

32:01

hear in my voice, I

32:03

don't know that it is

32:05

so but I hope it

32:07

is so but I hope

32:10

it is so but I

32:12

hope it is so but

32:14

I hope it is so

32:16

but I hope it is

32:19

so but I hope it

32:21

is so but I hope

32:23

it is so but I

32:25

hope it is so but

32:27

I hope it is so,

32:30

but I hope it is,

32:32

but I hope it, If

32:34

you hear in my voice

32:36

any resemblance to a voice

32:39

that was once sweet music

32:41

in your ears. Weep for

32:43

it. Weep for it. If

32:45

you touch in touching my

32:48

hair anything that recalls a

32:50

beloved head that lay on

32:52

your breast when you are

32:54

young and free. Weep for

32:56

it. If

32:59

when I hint to

33:01

you of our home

33:03

that is before us,

33:05

where I will be

33:07

true to you with

33:09

all my duty and

33:11

with all my faithful

33:13

service, I bring back

33:15

the remembrance of our

33:18

home long desolate, are

33:20

your poor heart pined

33:22

away, weep for it.

33:26

She held him close

33:28

around the neck and

33:30

rocked him on her

33:32

breast like a child.

33:35

If, when I tell

33:37

you dearest, dear, that

33:39

your agony is over,

33:41

and that I have

33:43

come here to take

33:45

you from it, and

33:47

that we go to

33:49

England to be at

33:52

peace and rest, I

33:54

cause you to think

33:56

of your useful life

33:58

laid waste, and of

34:00

that native France... So

34:02

wicked to you. We've...

34:04

for it, weep for

34:07

it. And if, and

34:09

I shall tell you

34:11

of my name, and

34:13

of my father, who

34:15

is living, and of

34:17

my mother, who is

34:19

dead, you learn that

34:22

I have to kneel

34:24

to my honoured father,

34:26

and implore his pardon

34:28

for having never for

34:30

his sake, striven all

34:32

day and lane away

34:34

and lane and wept

34:36

all night, because the

34:39

love of my poor

34:41

mother hid his torture

34:43

from me. Weep for

34:45

it. Weep for it.

34:47

Weep for her then,

34:49

and for me. Good

34:51

gentlemen, thank God. I

34:54

feel his sacred tears

34:56

upon my face. and

34:58

his sobs strike against

35:00

my heart. Oh see,

35:02

thank God for us,

35:04

thank God!" He had

35:06

sunk in her arms,

35:08

and his face dropped

35:11

on her breast, a

35:13

sight so touching, yet

35:15

so terrible in the

35:17

tremendous wrong and suffering

35:19

which had gone before

35:21

it, that the two

35:23

beholders covered their faces.

35:28

when the quiet of

35:30

the garret had been

35:32

long undisturbed and his

35:34

heaving breast and shaken

35:37

form had long yielded

35:39

to the calm that

35:41

must follow all storms

35:43

emblem to humanity of

35:46

the rest and silence

35:48

into which the storm

35:50

called life must hush

35:52

at last. They came

35:55

forward. to raise the

35:57

father and daughter from

35:59

the ground. He had

36:01

gradually dropped to the

36:04

floor and lay there

36:06

in a lethargy, worn

36:08

out. She had nestled

36:10

down with him that

36:12

his head might lie

36:15

upon her arm and

36:17

her hair drooping over

36:19

him curtained him from

36:21

the light. She said,

36:24

raising her hand to

36:26

Mr. Lorry as he

36:28

stooped over them, after

36:30

repeating blowings of his

36:33

nose. All could be

36:35

arranged for our leaving

36:37

Paris at once, so

36:39

that from the very

36:42

door he could be

36:44

taken away. But consider,

36:46

is he fit for

36:48

the journey? asked Mr.

36:51

Lorry. More fit for

36:53

it, I think, than

36:55

to remain in this

36:57

city. So dreadful to

37:00

him! It is true,

37:02

said Defarge, who is

37:04

kneeling to look on

37:06

and hear. More than

37:09

that, Monsieur Manette is

37:11

for all reasons best

37:13

out of France. Say,

37:15

shall I hire a

37:18

garage and post-orces? That's

37:20

business, said Mr. Lorry,

37:22

resuming on the shortest

37:24

notice his methodical manners.

37:27

And if business is to be

37:30

done, I had better do it.

37:32

Then be so kind, urged Miss

37:34

Manette, as to leave us here.

37:37

You see how composed he has

37:39

become, and you cannot be afraid

37:41

to leave him with me now.

37:43

Why should you be? If you

37:46

will lock the door to secure

37:48

us from interruption, do not doubt

37:50

that you will find him when

37:53

you come back, as quiet as

37:55

you leave him. In

37:57

any case, I will

37:59

take care. of him

38:01

until you return. And

38:03

then we will remove

38:05

him straight." Both Mr.

38:07

Lorry and Defarge were

38:09

rather disinclined to this

38:11

course and in favour

38:14

of one of them

38:16

remaining. But as there

38:18

were not only carriage

38:20

and horses to be

38:22

seen to, but travelling

38:24

papers, and as time

38:26

pressed, for the day

38:28

was drawing to the

38:30

end, it came at

38:32

last. to their hastily

38:34

dividing the business that

38:36

was necessary to be

38:38

done and hurrying away

38:40

to do it. Then,

38:42

as the darkness closed

38:44

in, the daughter laid

38:46

her head down on

38:48

the hard ground, close

38:50

at the father's side,

38:52

and watched him. The

38:54

darkness deepened and deepened,

38:56

and they both lay

38:58

quiet. until a light

39:01

gleaming through the chinks

39:03

in the war. Mr.

39:05

Lorry and Monsieur Defarge

39:07

had made all ready

39:09

for the journey and

39:11

had brought with them

39:13

besides travelling cloaks and

39:15

wrappers, bread and meat,

39:17

wine and hot coffee.

39:19

Monsieur Defarge put this

39:21

provender and the lamp

39:23

he carried on the

39:25

shoemaker's bench. There was

39:27

nothing else in the

39:29

garret but a pallet

39:31

bed, and he and

39:33

Mr. Lorry roused the

39:35

captive and assisted him

39:37

to his feet. No

39:39

human intelligence could have

39:41

read the mysteries of

39:43

his mind in the

39:45

sacred blank wonder of

39:48

his face, whether he

39:50

knew what had happened,

39:52

whether he recollected what

39:54

they had said to

39:56

him. whether he

39:58

knew that he was

40:00

free. were questions which

40:02

no sagacity could have

40:04

solved. They tried speaking

40:06

to him, but he

40:08

was so confused and

40:10

so very slow to

40:12

answer that they took

40:15

fright at his bewilderment

40:17

and agreed for the

40:19

time to tamper with

40:21

him no more. He

40:23

had a wild, lost

40:25

manner of occasionally clasping

40:27

his head in his

40:29

hands. that they had

40:31

not seen in him

40:34

before. Yet he had

40:36

some pleasure in the

40:38

mere sound of his

40:40

daughter's voice, and invariably

40:42

turned to it when

40:44

she spoke. In the

40:46

submissive way of one

40:48

long accustomed to obey

40:50

under coercion, he ate

40:52

and drank what they

40:55

gave him to eat

40:57

and drink, and put

40:59

on the cloak and

41:01

other wrappings. that they

41:03

gave him to wear.

41:05

He readily responded to

41:07

his daughter's drawing her

41:09

arm through his and

41:11

took and kept her

41:13

hand in both his

41:16

own. They began to

41:18

descend Monsieur Defage going

41:20

first with the lamb.

41:22

Mr. Lorry, closing the

41:24

little procession. They

41:27

had not traversed many

41:29

steps of the long

41:31

main staircase when he

41:34

stopped and stared at

41:36

the roof and round

41:38

at the walls. You

41:40

remember the place, my

41:42

father? You remember coming

41:44

up here? What did

41:46

you say? But before

41:49

she could repeat the

41:51

question, he murmured an

41:53

answer as if she

41:55

had repeated it. Remember.

41:57

I don't remember. It

42:00

was so very long

42:02

ago that he had

42:05

no recollection whatever of

42:07

his being brought from

42:09

his prison to that

42:11

house was apparent to

42:13

them. They heard him

42:15

mutter 105 North Tower,

42:17

and when he looked

42:19

about him, it evidently

42:21

was for the strong

42:23

fortress walls which had

42:26

long encompassed him. On

42:30

there reaching the courtyard,

42:32

he instinctively altered his

42:34

tread as being in

42:36

expectation of a drawbridge.

42:39

And when there was

42:41

no drawbridge, and he

42:43

saw the carriage waiting

42:45

in the open street,

42:47

he dropped his daughter's

42:50

hand and clasped his

42:52

head again. No crowd

42:54

was about the door.

42:56

No people were discernible

42:59

at any of the

43:01

many windows. Not even

43:03

a chance passer-by was

43:05

in the street. An

43:07

unnatural silence and desertion

43:10

rained there. Only one

43:12

soul was to be

43:14

seen, and that was

43:16

Madame Defarge, who leaned

43:19

against the doorpost, knitting

43:21

and saw nothing. The

43:25

prisoner had got into a

43:28

coach and his daughter had

43:30

followed him. When Mr. Lorry's

43:33

feet were arrested on the

43:35

step by his asking miserably

43:38

for his shoemaking tools and

43:40

the unfinished shoes, Madame Defarge

43:43

immediately called to her husband

43:45

that she would get them

43:48

and went knitting out of

43:50

the lamp light through the

43:53

courtyard. She

43:55

quickly brought them down

43:57

and handed them in

44:00

and immediately after. afterwards

44:02

leaned against the doorpost,

44:04

knitting and saw nothing.

44:06

The fage got upon

44:08

the box and gave

44:11

the word. To the

44:13

barrier, the postilian cracked

44:15

his whip and they

44:17

clattered away over the

44:19

feeble over-swinging lamps. Under

44:22

the over-swinging lamps. swinging

44:24

ever brighter in the

44:26

better streets and ever

44:28

dimmer in the worse,

44:31

and by lighted shops,

44:33

day crowds, illuminated coffee

44:35

houses and theatre doors

44:37

to one of the

44:39

city gates, soldiers with

44:42

lanterns at the guardhouse

44:44

there. Your papers, travellers.

44:46

See you here then,

44:48

Monsieur, the officer. Said

44:50

Defage, getting down. and

44:53

taking them gravely apart.

44:55

These are the papers

44:57

of the monsieur inside

44:59

with the white head.

45:01

They were consigned to

45:04

me with him as

45:06

the ear. He dropped

45:08

his voice. There was

45:10

a flutter among the

45:13

military lanterns, and one

45:15

of them being handed

45:17

into the coach by

45:19

an arm in uniform.

45:21

The eyes connected with

45:24

the arm looked. Not

45:26

an every day or

45:28

an every night look.

45:30

at Monsieur with the

45:32

white head. It is

45:35

well, forward, from the

45:37

uniform. Adieu, from the

45:39

phage. And so, under

45:41

a short grove of

45:43

feebler and feebler over-swinging

45:46

lamps, out under the

45:48

great grove of stars.

45:52

Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal

45:54

lights, some so remote from this little

45:57

earth that the learned

45:59

tell us it is

46:01

doubtful whether their

46:03

rays have even yet

46:06

discovered it, yet as

46:08

a point in space

46:10

in anything is suffered

46:12

or done. suffered or The

46:14

shadows of the night

46:16

were broad and black. black.

46:18

All through the All through

46:21

the cold and restless

46:23

interval dawn, dawn, more once

46:25

more whispered in the

46:27

ears of Mr Jarvis Lori.

46:29

sitting opposite the buried

46:31

man who had been

46:33

dug had been dug wondering what

46:35

subtle powers were for

46:37

ever lost to him,

46:39

were and what

46:41

were capable of restoration.

46:43

what were capable of restoration. The old

46:45

hope you care

46:48

to be I to you

46:50

care to be and the

46:52

old answer, And the old

46:54

can't say. say. The

46:59

End of the first

47:01

book. You

50:27

You You

51:27

You You