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evening and welcome to

3:05

this sleepy book shelf,

3:07

where we put down

3:09

our worries from the

3:11

day and pick up

3:13

a good book. I'm

3:15

your host, Elizabeth. It

3:18

is so lovely to

3:20

be here with you

3:22

this evening. Tonight, we

3:24

are continuing a tale

3:26

of two cities. But

3:28

before we do that.

3:31

Let's take a

3:34

moment to get

3:36

comfortable and ready

3:39

to relax. Take

3:41

a nice big

3:44

stretch, releasing any

3:46

physical tension in

3:49

your body, and

3:52

allowing yourself to

3:54

feel heavy. Today

3:57

is behind you.

3:59

And you deserve

4:02

a good night's

4:04

rest. Take a deep

4:06

breath in, collecting

4:10

any worries or

4:12

concerns. And now

4:15

exhale, letting them

4:17

all go. Let's

4:20

do that again.

4:22

Inhale. And

4:24

exhale. And

4:27

exhale. Wonderful.

4:31

Mr. Darnay,

4:33

the now free man, Miss

4:35

Manette and her

4:38

father, Dr. Manet, along

4:40

with Mr. Laurie

4:43

and his counsel,

4:45

Mr. Stryver, was

4:47

stood outside the

4:50

courthouse, filled with

4:52

relief and congratulations.

4:56

It was late in the

4:58

day. So Miss Manet took

5:01

her father home, and Mr.

5:03

Stryver went to continue

5:05

his work in his

5:07

chambers. It was then Mr.

5:10

Carton, the other solicitor,

5:12

who had greatly aided

5:14

the case, appeared in

5:16

his regular clothes, having

5:18

been leaning against a

5:20

wall in the shadows.

5:22

He seemed inebriated,

5:24

and his manner towards

5:26

Mr. Laurie was abrasive.

5:30

The latter took his leave, and

5:32

Mr. Carton insisted

5:34

on taking Mr.

5:36

Darnay for some dinner.

5:38

During the meal, Mr. Carton

5:41

did not eat, but did

5:43

consume an entire bottle

5:45

of port. And when Mr.

5:48

Darnay left him, he

5:50

requested the proprietor wake

5:53

him at 10 p.m., whereby

5:55

he promptly fell asleep

5:57

at the table. When he woke,

6:00

He sobered himself by

6:02

striding around the strand

6:04

before returning to the

6:07

darkened courthouse. He made

6:09

his way to Stryver's

6:11

chambers where Stryver was

6:13

still working. They settled

6:16

themselves in between a

6:18

table laden with more

6:21

alcohol. Carton fetched himself

6:23

a wet towel and wrapped

6:25

it around his head. before

6:27

sifting through the myriad papers

6:30

on his desk. Between

6:32

the two of them, they pulled

6:34

a concise case together, and

6:36

Stryver appreciated Carton's

6:39

assistance, but expressed concern

6:41

for his friend.

6:43

Carton explained he

6:45

was never destined to amount

6:48

to much, in comparison to

6:50

Stryver. Wherever they had

6:53

studied. Stryver had succeeded

6:55

where Carton had stumbled

6:58

along behind him. Stryver

7:00

commented on how attractive

7:03

Miss Manette was in

7:05

the courtroom today, but

7:07

Carton denied her beauty.

7:10

He went home in the

7:12

early hours and fell onto

7:14

his bed fully dressed, falling

7:16

asleep after crying into

7:18

his pillow. Tonight,

7:23

we pick

7:26

up with

7:28

Dr. Manette.

7:31

So, just

7:34

lie back

7:36

and relax,

7:38

as I turn

7:41

to the next

7:44

pages of

7:46

A Tale

7:49

of Two

7:51

Cities. hundreds

7:54

of people.

7:56

The quiet

8:00

lodgings of Dr. Manette

8:02

were in a quiet

8:04

street corner not far

8:06

from Soho Square. On

8:09

the afternoon of a

8:11

certain fine Sunday, when

8:13

the waves of four

8:15

months had rolled over

8:18

the trial for treason

8:20

and carried it as

8:22

to the public interest

8:24

and memory far out

8:26

to see, Mr. Jarvis

8:29

Laurie walked along the

8:31

sunny streets from Clerkenwell

8:33

where he lived, on

8:35

his way to dine

8:37

with the doctor. After

8:40

several relapses into business

8:42

absorption, Mr. Lorry had

8:44

become the doctor's friend,

8:46

and the quiet street

8:49

corner was the sunny

8:51

part of his life.

8:53

On this certain fine

8:55

Sunday, Sunday fine Sunday.

8:57

Mr. Laurie walked toward

9:00

Soho early in the

9:02

afternoon for three reasons

9:04

of habit. Firstly, because

9:06

on fine Sundays, he

9:08

often walked out before

9:11

dinner with the doctor

9:13

and Lucy. Secondly, because

9:15

on unfavorable Sundays, he

9:17

was accustomed to be

9:20

with them as the

9:22

family friend. Talking, reading.

9:24

looking out of window,

9:26

and generally getting through

9:28

the day. Thirdly, because

9:31

he happened to have

9:33

his own little shrewd

9:35

doubts to solve, and

9:37

knew how the ways

9:39

of the doctor's household

9:42

pointed to that time

9:44

as likely time for

9:46

solving them. A quainter

9:48

corner than the corner

9:51

where the doctor lived.

9:53

was not to be

9:55

found in London. There

9:57

was no way through

9:59

it and the front

10:02

window of the doctor's

10:04

lodgings commanded a pleasant

10:06

little vista of street

10:08

that had a congenial

10:10

air of retirement on

10:13

it. There were few

10:15

buildings then, north of

10:17

the Oxford Road, and

10:19

forest trees flourished, and

10:22

wild flowers grew, and

10:24

the hoarth horn blossomed

10:26

in the now vanished

10:28

fields. As a consequence,

10:30

Country airs circulated in

10:33

Soho with vigorous freedom,

10:35

instead of languishing into

10:37

the parish-like stray paupers

10:39

without a settlement. And

10:41

there was many a

10:44

good south wall, not

10:46

too far off, on

10:48

which the peaches ripened

10:50

in their season. The

10:53

summer light struck into

10:55

the corner brilliantly. in

10:57

the earlier part of

10:59

the day. But when

11:01

the streets grew hot,

11:04

the corner was in

11:06

shadow, though not in

11:08

shadow so remote, but

11:10

that you could see

11:12

beyond it, into a

11:15

glare of brightness. It

11:17

was a cool spot,

11:19

stayed, but cheerful, a

11:21

wonderful place for echoes,

11:24

and a very harbour.

11:26

from the raging streets.

11:28

There ought to have

11:30

been a tranquil bark

11:32

in such an anchorage,

11:35

and there was. The

11:37

doctor occupied two floors

11:39

of a large stiff

11:41

house, where several ceilings

11:43

purported to be pursued

11:46

by day, but whereof

11:48

little was audible any

11:50

day. and which was

11:52

shunned by all of

11:55

them at night, in

11:57

a building at the

11:59

back. attainable by

12:01

a courtyard where a

12:03

plain tree rustled its

12:06

green leaves, church organs

12:08

claimed to be made, and

12:10

silver to be chased, and

12:13

likewise gold to be

12:15

beaten by some mysterious

12:18

giant who had a

12:20

golden arm starting out

12:22

of the wall of the front

12:24

hall, as if he had beaten

12:27

himself precious. and

12:29

menaced a similar

12:31

conversion of all visitors.

12:34

Very little of

12:36

these trades, or of

12:38

a lonely lodger, rumored

12:41

to live upstairs,

12:43

or of a dim,

12:45

coach-trimming maker, asserted

12:48

to have a

12:50

counting-house below, was ever

12:53

heard or seen. Occasionally,

12:55

a stray workman. putting his

12:58

coat on, traversed the

13:00

hall, or a stranger peered

13:02

about there, or a distant

13:05

clink was heard across

13:07

the courtyard, or a thump

13:09

from the golden giant.

13:11

These, however, were the only

13:13

exceptions required to prove the

13:16

rule that the sparrows in

13:18

the plain tree behind the

13:21

house, and the echoes in

13:23

the corner before it. had

13:25

their own way from

13:27

Sunday morning onto Saturday

13:29

night. Dr. Manette received

13:31

such patience here as

13:33

his old reputation and

13:36

its revival in the

13:38

floating whispers of his

13:40

history brought him. His

13:42

scientific knowledge and his

13:44

vigilance and skill

13:47

in conducting ingenious

13:50

experiments experiments experiments,

13:53

brought him otherwise into moderate

13:55

request, and he earned as

13:58

much as he wanted. These

14:02

things were within Mr Jarvis

14:04

Lorry's knowledge, thoughts

14:06

and notice when he

14:08

rang the doorbell of the

14:10

tranquil house in the

14:13

corner on the fine Sunday

14:15

afternoon. Dr

14:18

Mannet at home, expected

14:21

home, Miss Lucy

14:23

at home, expected home,

14:27

Miss Pross at home, possibly

14:30

at home, but of a

14:32

certainty impossible for handmaid to

14:34

anticipate intentions of Miss

14:36

Pross as to admission or

14:38

denial of the fact. As

14:42

I am at home myself, said

14:45

Mr Lorry, I'll go upstairs.

14:51

Although the doctor's daughter had

14:53

known nothing of the country of

14:55

her birth, she appeared

14:57

to have innately derived from

15:00

it that ability to make

15:02

much of little means, which

15:04

is one of the most

15:06

useful and most agreeable characteristics. Simple

15:11

as the furniture was, it

15:14

was set off by so

15:16

many little adornments of no

15:18

value, but for their taste

15:20

and fancy, that its

15:22

effect was delightful. The

15:26

disposition of everything in the

15:28

rooms, from the largest

15:30

object to the least, the

15:33

arrangement of colors, the

15:35

elegant variety and

15:38

contrast obtained by thrift

15:40

in trifles, by

15:42

delicate hands, clear

15:44

eyes and good sense, were

15:48

at once so pleasant in

15:50

themselves and so expressive

15:52

of their originator, that

15:54

as Mr Lorry stood

15:57

looking about him, the

15:59

very ch - and tables seemed

16:01

to ask him with

16:03

something of that peculiar

16:06

expression which he knew

16:08

so well by this

16:10

time, whether he approved.

16:12

There were three rooms

16:15

on a floor and

16:17

the doors by which

16:19

they communicated being put

16:21

open that the air

16:24

might pass freely through

16:26

them all. Mr. Lorry

16:28

smilingly observant of that

16:30

fanciful resemblance, which he

16:33

detected all around him,

16:35

walked from one to

16:37

another. The first was

16:39

the best room, and

16:42

in it were Lucy's

16:44

birds and flowers, and

16:46

books, and books of

16:48

watercolours. The second was

16:51

the doctor's consulting room.

16:53

used also as the

16:55

dining room. The third,

16:57

changingly speckled by the

17:00

rustle of the plain

17:02

tree in the yard,

17:04

was the doctor's bedroom.

17:06

There, in a corner,

17:09

stood the disused shoemaker's

17:11

bench and tray of

17:13

tools, much as it

17:15

had stood on the

17:18

fifth floor of the

17:20

dismal house by the

17:22

wine shop in the

17:24

suburb of Saint Antoine.

17:27

in Paris. I wonder,

17:29

said Mr. Loy, pausing

17:31

in his looking about

17:33

that he keeps that

17:36

reminder of his sufferings

17:38

about him. And why

17:40

wonder that? Was the

17:42

abrupt inquiry that made

17:45

him start. It proceeded

17:47

from Miss Pross, the

17:49

wild red woman strong

17:51

of hand. whose acquaintance

17:54

he had first made

17:56

at the Royal George

17:58

Hotel in Dover. and

18:00

had since improved.

18:03

I should have thought, Mr.

18:06

Lorry began, you'd

18:08

have thought, said Miss

18:11

Pross, and Mr.

18:13

Lorry left off.

18:15

How do you do? inquired

18:18

that lady. Then, sharply,

18:20

and yet as if

18:23

to express that she

18:26

bore him no malice.

18:28

Pretty well, thank

18:30

you. Inquired Mr.

18:32

Lorry with meekness.

18:35

How are you? Nothing to

18:37

boast of, said Miss Pross.

18:39

Indeed. Ah, indeed, said

18:42

Miss Pross. I'm very

18:44

much put out by

18:46

my ladybird. Indeed.

18:48

For gracious sake, say

18:50

something else besides

18:52

indeed, or you'll fidget

18:55

me to death. said

18:57

Miss Pross, whose character,

19:01

disassociated from

19:03

stature with shortness.

19:06

Really, then, said

19:08

Mr. Lorry, as

19:11

an amendment. Really

19:13

is bad enough, returned

19:16

Miss Pross, but better.

19:18

Yes, I'm very much

19:21

put out. May I ask

19:23

the cause? I don't want

19:25

dozens of people who are

19:27

not at all worthy of

19:30

Lady Bird come in here

19:32

to look after her," said

19:34

Miss Pross. Do you doesn't

19:36

come for that purpose?

19:39

Hundreds, said Miss Pross.

19:41

It was characteristic

19:44

of this lady as of

19:46

some other people before her

19:49

time and since. that whenever

19:52

her original

19:54

proposition was questioned,

19:56

she exaggerated it.

19:59

Dear me... said Mr. Lorry, as

20:01

the safest remark he could

20:03

think of. I have lived

20:05

with the darling. Oh, the

20:07

darling has lived with me

20:09

and paid me for it,

20:12

which she certainly should never

20:14

have done. You may take

20:16

your affidavit, if I could

20:18

have afforded to keep either

20:20

myself or her for nothing,

20:22

since she was ten years

20:24

old. And it really is

20:26

very hard, said Miss Pros.

20:30

Not seeing with precision what

20:32

was very hard, Mr. Loy

20:34

shook his head, using that

20:36

important part of himself as

20:38

a sort of fairy cloak

20:40

that would fit anything. All

20:42

sorts of people who were

20:45

not in the least degree

20:47

worthy of the pet are

20:49

always turning up, said Miss

20:51

Pross. When you began it,

20:53

I began it, Miss Pross.

20:55

Didn't you? Who brought her

20:57

father to life? Oh, if

20:59

that was beginning it, said

21:01

Mr. Lorry. It wasn't ending

21:03

it, I suppose. I say,

21:05

when you would begin it,

21:08

it was hard enough. Not

21:10

that I have any fault

21:12

to find with Dr. Manette,

21:14

except that he is not

21:16

worthy of such a daughter,

21:18

which is no imputation on

21:20

him. for it was not

21:22

to be expected that anybody

21:24

should be under any circumstances.

21:26

But it really is doubly

21:28

and trebly hard to have

21:30

crowds and multitudes of people

21:33

turning up after him I

21:35

could have forgiven him to

21:37

take Idi Bird's affections away

21:39

from me. Mr. Laurie knew

21:41

Miss Prost to be very

21:43

jealous, but he also knew

21:45

her by this time. to

21:47

be beneath the service of

21:49

her eccentricity. one

21:51

of those unselfish

21:53

creatures, found

21:56

only among women

21:58

who will,

22:00

for pure love

22:02

and admiration,

22:04

bind themselves willing

22:06

slaves to

22:08

youth when they

22:10

have lost

22:12

it, to beauty

22:14

that they

22:16

never had, to

22:19

accomplishments that they were

22:21

never fortunate enough to gain,

22:24

to bright hopes that

22:26

never shone upon their own

22:28

somber lives. He

22:31

knew enough of the world

22:33

to know that there is

22:35

nothing in it better than

22:37

the faithful service of the

22:40

heart. So rendered and so

22:42

free from any mercenary taint,

22:44

he had such an exalted

22:46

respect for it that in

22:48

the retributive arrangements made by

22:50

his own mind, we all

22:53

make such arrangements more or

22:55

less. He

22:57

stationed Miss Prost much

22:59

nearer to the lower

23:01

angels than many ladies

23:03

immeasurably better, got up

23:05

both by nature and

23:07

art, who had balances

23:10

at Telsons. There

23:13

never was, nor will

23:15

be, but one man worthy

23:17

of Ladybird, said Miss

23:19

Prost. And that was my

23:21

brother Solomon, if he

23:23

hadn't made a mistake in

23:25

his life. Here

23:29

again, Mr. Lory's inquiries

23:31

into Miss Prost's personal history

23:34

had established the fact

23:36

that her brother Solomon was

23:38

a heartless scoundrel who

23:40

had stripped her of everything

23:43

she possessed as a

23:45

stake to speculate with, and

23:48

had abandoned her in

23:50

her poverty forevermore, with no

23:52

touch of compunction. Miss

23:56

Prost's fidelity of belief

23:58

in Solomon. deducting

24:01

a mere trifle for this

24:03

slight mistake, was quite

24:05

a serious matter with Mr.

24:07

Lorry, and had its weight

24:10

in his good opinion of

24:12

her. As we happened to

24:14

be alone for the moment,

24:16

and both people of business,

24:18

he said when they had

24:20

got back to the drawing

24:22

room, and had sat down

24:24

there in friendly relations.

24:27

Let me ask you. Does

24:29

the doctor, in talking with

24:32

Lucy, never refer to

24:34

the shoemaking time yet?

24:36

Never. And yet keeps that

24:39

bench and those tools beside

24:41

him. Ha! returned Miss Pross,

24:43

shaking her head. But I

24:46

don't say you don't refer

24:48

to it within himself.

24:50

Do you believe he thinks a

24:52

bit much? I do believe he

24:55

thinks a bit much. I do.

24:57

I do. I do. I do.

24:59

I do. I do. said Miss

25:02

Pross. Would you imagine? Mr. Lorry

25:04

had begun when Miss

25:06

Pross took him up

25:08

short with Never imagine

25:11

anything. Have no imagination

25:13

at all. I stand

25:15

corrected. Do you suppose?

25:18

You go so far

25:20

as to suppose sometimes?

25:22

Now and then? said

25:24

Miss Pross. Would you

25:26

suppose? Would you suppose?

25:29

Mr. Loy went on with

25:31

a laughing twinkle in his

25:33

bright eye as it looked

25:35

kindly at her. That Dr.

25:38

Manet has any theory of

25:40

his own, preserved through all

25:42

those years, relative to the

25:45

cause of his being so

25:47

oppressed, perhaps even to

25:49

the name of his oppressor.

25:52

I don't suppose anything about

25:54

it, but what Lady Bird

25:56

tells me. And

25:59

that is. that she thinks

26:01

he has." Now, don't

26:03

be angry at my

26:06

asking all these questions,

26:08

because I am a mere

26:10

dull man of business. And

26:13

you are a woman of

26:15

business. Dull? Miss

26:17

Pross inquired, with

26:19

placidity, rather

26:22

wishing his modest

26:24

adjective away, Mr.

26:27

Laurie replied. And

26:29

to return to my

26:31

business, is it not

26:34

remarkable that Dr. Manette,

26:36

unquestionably innocent of any

26:38

crime as we are all well

26:40

assured he is, should never touch

26:42

upon that question? I will not

26:44

say with me, though he had

26:46

business relations with me many

26:49

years ago, and we are

26:51

now intimate. I will say

26:53

with the fair daughter, to whom

26:55

he is so devotedly

26:57

attached. and who is

26:59

so devotedly attached to

27:01

him. Believe me, Miss Pross.

27:04

I don't approach the

27:06

topic with you out

27:08

of curiosity, but out of

27:11

zealous interest." Well,

27:13

to the best of my

27:15

understanding, and bads the

27:18

best you'll tell me,

27:20

said Miss Pross, softened

27:22

by the tone of

27:24

the apology. He is

27:26

afraid. of the old subject.

27:29

Afraid? It's plain enough, I

27:31

should think. Why, maybe. It's

27:33

a dreadful remembrance.

27:35

Besides that, his loss

27:38

of himself grew out of

27:40

it. Not knowing how he

27:42

lost himself or how he

27:44

recovered himself, he may never

27:46

feel certain of not losing

27:49

himself again. That alone

27:51

wouldn't make the subject

27:54

pleasant, I should think.

27:59

It was a perfect found a remark

28:01

that Mr. Lorry had looked

28:03

for. True, said he, and fearful

28:06

to reflect upon. Yet a

28:08

doubt lurks in my mind, Miss

28:11

Pross, whether it is good

28:13

for Dr. Manet to have

28:15

that suppression always shut

28:18

up within him. Indeed it

28:20

is this doubt and the uneasiness

28:22

it sometimes causes me

28:24

that has led me to

28:27

our present confidence. Can't

28:31

be helped said Miss Pross

28:33

shaking her head Touch that

28:36

string and he instantly

28:38

changes for the worse Better

28:40

to leave it alone In

28:43

short must leave it alone

28:45

like or no like Sometimes

28:47

he gets up in the dead

28:49

of the night and will be

28:51

heard by us overhead there

28:53

walking up and down walking

28:55

up and down his room

28:58

Lady Birders learned to know

29:01

then that his mind is walking

29:03

up and down, walking up and

29:05

down in his old prison.

29:07

She hurries to him in there

29:09

go on together, walking up and

29:12

down, walking up and down,

29:14

until he is composed. But

29:16

he never says a word the

29:18

true reason of his relentlessness

29:21

to her, and she

29:23

finds it best not to intat

29:25

it to him. In

29:27

silence they go, walking

29:29

up and down together,

29:31

walking up and down

29:34

together. Till her love

29:36

and company have brought

29:38

him to himself. Notwithstanding

29:42

misprocessed denial

29:45

of her own imagination,

29:47

there was a perception

29:50

of the pain of

29:52

being monotonously haunted by

29:55

one sad idea. in

29:57

her repetition of the

29:59

phrase, looking up and

30:01

down, which testified to

30:03

her possessing such a

30:05

thing. The corner has

30:07

been mentioned as a

30:09

wonderful corner for echoes.

30:12

It had begun to

30:14

echo so resoundingly to

30:16

the tread of coming

30:18

feet that it seemed

30:20

as though the very

30:22

mention of that weary

30:24

pacing, too and fro,

30:26

had set it going.

30:29

Here they are," said Miss

30:31

Pross, rising to break up

30:33

the conference, and now we

30:36

shall have hundreds of people

30:38

pretty soon. It was such

30:40

a curious corner in its

30:43

acoustical properties, such a peculiar

30:45

ear of a place that

30:47

as Mr. Lorry stood at

30:50

the open window, looking for

30:52

the father and daughter whose

30:54

steps he heard. He fancied

30:56

they would never approach. Not

30:59

only would the echoes die

31:01

away, as though the steps

31:03

had gone, but echoes of

31:06

other steps that never came

31:08

would be heard in their

31:10

stead, and would die away

31:13

for good when they seemed

31:15

close at hand. However, father

31:17

and daughter did at last

31:20

appear, and Miss Proz was

31:22

ready the street door to

31:24

receive the street door to

31:26

receive them. Miss

31:29

Pross was a pleasant sight,

31:32

albeit wild and red and

31:34

grim, taking off her darling's

31:36

bonnet when she came upstairs,

31:38

and touching it up with

31:40

the ends of her handkerchief,

31:43

and blowing dust off it,

31:45

and folding her mantle ready

31:47

for laying by, and smoothing

31:49

her rich hair with as

31:52

much pride as she could

31:54

possibly have taken in her

31:56

own hair. if she had

31:58

been the venous. and

32:00

handsomely of women. Her

32:03

darling was a pleasant

32:05

sight too, embracing her

32:07

and thanking her, and

32:09

protesting against her taking

32:12

so much trouble for

32:14

her, which last she

32:16

only dared to do

32:19

playfully, or Miss Pross, sorely

32:21

hurt, would have retired

32:23

to her own chamber and

32:26

cried. The

32:29

doctor was a pleasant sight

32:31

too, looking on at them

32:33

and telling Miss Pross how

32:35

she spoiled Lucy in accents

32:37

and with eyes that had

32:39

as much spoiling in them

32:41

as Miss Pross had and would

32:43

have had more if it were

32:46

possible. Mr. Lorry was a

32:48

pleasant sight too, beaming at

32:51

all this in his little

32:53

wig and thanking his bachelor

32:56

stars. for having blighted him

32:58

in his declining years to

33:00

a home. But no hundreds of

33:03

people came to see the

33:05

sights, and Mr. Lorry looked

33:07

in vain for the fulfilment

33:10

of Miss Pross's prediction.

33:12

Dinner time, and still no

33:14

hundreds of people.

33:16

In the arrangements of the

33:19

little household, Miss Pross took

33:21

charge of the lower regions of

33:24

the lower regions. and always

33:26

acquitted herself

33:28

marvelously. Her dinners of

33:31

a very modest quality

33:33

were so well cooked and

33:35

so well served and

33:37

so neat in their

33:40

contrivances, half English and

33:42

half French, that nothing

33:44

could be better. Miss

33:46

Pross's friendship, being

33:48

of the thoroughly practical

33:51

kind, She had savaged

33:53

Soho and the adjacent

33:55

provinces in search of

33:58

impoverished French who who,

34:00

tempted by shillings and

34:02

half-crowns, would impart culinary

34:04

mysteries to her. From

34:06

these decayed sons and

34:09

daughters of Gaul, she

34:11

had inquired such wonderful

34:13

arts that the woman

34:15

and girl who formed

34:17

the staff of domestics

34:19

regarded her as quite

34:21

a sorceress, or Cinderella's

34:23

godmother, who would send

34:26

out for a foul,

34:28

a rabbit. a vegetable

34:30

or two from the

34:32

garden, and changed them

34:34

into anything she pleased.

34:36

On Sundays, Miss Prost

34:38

dined at the doctor's

34:40

table, but on other

34:43

days, persisted in taking

34:45

her meals at unknown

34:47

periods, either in the

34:49

lower regions, or in

34:51

her own room on

34:53

the second floor, a

34:55

blue chamber, to which

34:57

no one but her

35:00

lady bird, ever gained

35:02

admittance. On this occasion

35:04

Miss Pross, responding to

35:06

Lady Bird's pleasant face

35:08

and pleasant efforts to

35:10

please her, unbent exceedingly,

35:12

so the dinner was

35:14

very pleasant too. It

35:17

was an oppressive day,

35:19

and after dinner, Lucy

35:21

proposed that the wine

35:23

should be carried out

35:25

under the plain tree

35:27

and they should sit

35:29

there in the air.

35:32

As everything turned upon

35:34

her and revolved about

35:36

her, they went out

35:38

under the plain tree

35:40

and she carried the

35:42

wine for the special

35:44

benefit of Mr. Lorry.

35:46

She had installed herself

35:49

sometime before as Mr.

35:51

Lorry's cup-bearer. And

35:53

while they sat under

35:55

the plain tree, talking,

35:57

she kept his glass

35:59

replenished. mysterious

36:02

backs and ends of

36:04

houses peeped at them

36:06

as they talked, and

36:08

the plain tree whispered

36:10

to them in its

36:12

own way above their

36:14

hands. Still, the hundreds

36:16

of people did not

36:18

present themselves. Mr. Darnay

36:20

presented himself while they

36:22

were sitting under the

36:24

plain tree, but he

36:26

was only one. Dr.

36:29

Manette received him kindly,

36:32

and so did Lucy.

36:34

But Miss Pross suddenly

36:36

became afflicted with a

36:38

twitching in the head

36:40

and body and retired

36:42

into the house. She

36:44

was not, unfrequently, the

36:46

victim of this disorder,

36:48

and she called it

36:50

in familiar conversation. A

36:52

fit of the jerks.

36:57

The doctor was in his

36:59

best condition and looked specially

37:02

young. The resemblance between him

37:04

and Lucy was very strong

37:06

at such times, and as

37:09

they sat side by side,

37:11

she leaning on his shoulder,

37:13

and he resting his arm

37:16

on the back of her

37:18

chair, it was very agreeable

37:21

to trace the likeness. He

37:25

had been talking all day

37:27

on many subjects and with

37:29

the usual vivacity. Pray, Doctor

37:31

Manet, said Mr. Darnay as

37:34

they sat under the plain

37:36

tree, and he said it

37:38

in the natural pursuit of

37:40

the topic in hand, which

37:42

happened to be the old

37:44

buildings of London. Have you

37:46

seen much of the tower?

37:49

Lucy and I have been

37:51

there, but only casually. We

37:53

have seen enough of it

37:55

to know that it teams

37:57

with interest, a little more.

38:00

But I have been there, as

38:02

you remember," said Darnay,

38:05

with a smile, though

38:07

reddening a little angrily.

38:09

In another character, and

38:12

not in a character

38:14

that gives facilities for

38:16

seeing much of it, they

38:18

told me a curious thing

38:20

when I was there. And

38:23

what was that? Lucy asked.

38:25

In making some alterations, the

38:27

workmen came upon an old

38:30

dungeon. which had been for

38:32

many years built up and

38:34

forgotten. Every stone of its

38:37

inner wall was covered by

38:39

inscriptions, which had been carved

38:41

by prisoners, dates, names,

38:44

complaints, and prayers. Upon

38:46

a cornerstone in an angle

38:48

of the wall, one prisoner, who

38:51

seemed to have gone to execution,

38:53

had cut his last

38:55

work. Three letters. They

38:58

were done with some

39:00

very poor instrument and

39:02

hurriedly with an unsteady

39:04

hand. At first, they were read

39:06

as D-I-C. But on being

39:08

more carefully examined,

39:10

the last letter was found

39:12

to be G. There was no

39:15

record or legend of

39:17

any prisoner with those

39:19

initials, and many fruitless

39:21

guesses were made at what

39:23

name it could have been. At

39:25

length. It was suggested

39:28

that the letters were not

39:30

initials, but the complete

39:32

word, dig. The floor was examined

39:35

very carefully under the

39:37

inscription, and the

39:39

earth beneath a stone or

39:41

tile or some fragment of

39:43

paving, were found the ashes

39:45

of a paper, mingled with

39:47

the ashes of a small

39:49

leathern case or bag. What

39:51

the unknown prisoner had written

39:54

will never be read. But

39:56

he had written something and

39:58

hidden it away together. keep

40:00

it from the gala.

40:02

My father, exclaimed Lucy,

40:04

you were ill. He

40:06

had suddenly started up

40:08

with his hand to his

40:11

head. His manner and his

40:13

look quite terrified them all.

40:15

No, my dear, no deal. There

40:18

are large drops of rain

40:20

falling and they made me

40:22

start. We had better go

40:24

in. He recovered himself

40:27

almost instantly.

40:29

Rain was really falling in large

40:31

drops and he showed the back

40:34

of his hand with raindrops on

40:36

it. But he said not

40:38

a single word in reference

40:40

to the discovery that had

40:42

been told of. And as

40:44

they went into the house,

40:46

the business eye of Mr.

40:49

Lorry either detected or fancied

40:51

it detected on his face

40:53

as it turned towards Charles

40:55

Darnay. The same singular

40:57

look. that had been upon

40:59

it when it turned towards

41:01

him in the passages of

41:03

the courthouse. He recovered himself

41:06

so quickly, however, that

41:08

Mr. Lorry had doubts of

41:10

his business eye. The arm of

41:13

the golden giant in the hall

41:15

was not more steady than he

41:17

was when he stopped under it,

41:19

to remark to them that

41:21

he was not yet proof

41:23

against slight surprises, if he

41:25

ever would be. and that the

41:28

rain had startled him.

41:30

Tea time, a mispross

41:32

making tea with another

41:34

fit of the jerks

41:36

upon her, and yet

41:39

no hundreds of people.

41:41

Mr. Carton had lounged

41:43

in, but he made

41:45

only two. The night was

41:47

so very sultry, that

41:50

although they sat with doors

41:52

and windows open, they

41:54

were overpowered by heat.

41:57

when the tea table was done with.

42:00

They all moved to

42:02

one of the windows

42:04

and looked out into

42:06

their heavy twilight. Lucy

42:08

sat by her father.

42:10

Darnay sat beside her.

42:12

Carton leaned against a

42:14

window. The curtains were

42:16

long and white, and

42:18

some of the thunder

42:21

gusts that whirled into

42:23

the corner caught them

42:25

up to the ceiling

42:27

and waved them up

42:29

to the ceiling and

42:31

waved them. like spectral

42:33

wings. The windrops are

42:35

still falling, large and

42:37

heavy and few, said

42:39

Dr. Manet. It comes

42:42

slowly. It comes, surely,

42:44

said Khan. They spoke

42:46

low, as people watching

42:48

and waiting mostly do,

42:50

as people in a

42:52

dark room. watching and

42:54

waiting for lightning always

42:56

do. There was a

42:58

great hurry in the

43:01

streets of people speeding

43:03

away to get shelter

43:05

before the storm broke.

43:07

The wonderful corner for

43:09

echoes resounded with the

43:11

echoes of footsteps coming

43:13

and going. Yet not

43:15

a footstep was there.

43:17

Montitude of people. And

43:19

yet a solitude of

43:22

people. said Darnay, and

43:24

they had listened for

43:26

a while. Is it

43:28

not impressive, Mr. Darnay?

43:30

asked Lucy. Sometimes I

43:32

have sat here of

43:34

an evening until I

43:36

have fancied, but even

43:38

the shade of a

43:41

foolish fancy makes me

43:43

shudder tonight, when all

43:45

is so black and

43:47

solemn. Let us shudder

43:49

too. We may know

43:51

what it is. It

43:54

will seem nothing to you. Such

43:56

whims are only impressive as we

43:59

originate them. I think they are not

44:01

to be communicated.

44:03

I have sometimes sat alone

44:05

here of an evening listening,

44:07

until I have made the

44:09

echoes out to be the

44:11

echoes of all the footsteps

44:13

that are coming by and

44:16

by into our lives. There is

44:18

a great crowd coming one

44:20

day into our lives, if that

44:22

be so. Sydney Carton struck

44:25

in in his moody way. The

44:29

footsteps were incessant

44:31

and the hurry of them

44:33

became more and more rapid.

44:35

The corner echoed and re-

44:37

echoed with the tread of

44:40

feet. Some as it seemed under

44:42

the windows, some as it

44:44

seemed in the room, some coming,

44:47

some going, some breaking

44:49

off, some stopping altogether.

44:52

All in the distant streets

44:54

and not one within sight.

44:59

Are all these footsteps destined to

45:01

come to all of us, Miss

45:04

Manette? Or are we to divide

45:06

them among us? I don't know,

45:08

Mr. Darnay. I told you it

45:10

was a foolish fancy, but you

45:13

asked for it. When I have yielded

45:15

myself to it, I have been

45:17

alone. Then I have imagined

45:19

them the footsteps of the

45:22

people who are to come into my

45:24

life, and my father's. I take

45:26

them into mine, said Carton.

45:28

I ask no questions and

45:31

make no stipulations.

45:33

There is a great crowd

45:35

bearing down upon his mismanat

45:38

and I see them by the

45:40

lightning. He added the last

45:42

words after there had been

45:45

a vivid flash which had

45:47

shown him lounging in the

45:49

window. And I hear them. He

45:52

added again after a peal of

45:54

thunder. Here they come.

45:56

Fast. Fierce and furious.

46:00

It was the rush and

46:02

roar of rain that he

46:04

typified, and it stopped him,

46:07

for no voice could be

46:09

heard in it. A memorable

46:11

storm of thunder and lightning

46:14

broke with that sweep of

46:16

water, and there was not

46:18

a moment's interval in crash

46:21

and fire and rain until

46:23

after the moon rose at

46:25

midnight. The

46:28

great bell of St.

46:30

Paul's was striking, one

46:32

in the cleared air,

46:34

when Mr. Lorry, escorted

46:36

by Jerry, high-booted and

46:38

bearing a lantern, set

46:40

forth on his return

46:42

passage to Clerkenwell. There

46:44

were solitary patches of

46:46

road on the way

46:48

between Soho and Clerkenwell,

46:50

and Mr. Lorry, mindful

46:52

of foot pads, always

46:54

retained Jerry for this

46:56

service. though it was

46:58

usually performed a good

47:00

two hours earlier. What

47:02

a night has been,

47:04

almost a night, Jerry,

47:06

said Mr. Lorry, to

47:08

bring the dead out

47:10

of their graves. I

47:12

never see the night

47:14

myself, Master, nor yet

47:16

I don't expect you

47:19

what would do that,

47:21

answered Jerry. Good night,

47:23

Mr. Carton, said the

47:25

man of business. Good

47:27

night, Mr. Darnay. Shall

47:29

we see such a

47:31

night again together? Perhaps.

47:33

Perhaps see the great

47:35

crowd of people with

47:37

its rush and draw

47:39

bearing down upon them

47:41

too. You

48:56

You You

49:57

You