A Tale of Two Cities
Book the Third: Track of a Storm
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Travels through
· New laws say that all emigrant are banished and all who return will be condemned to death
· Darnay is arrested and called by his true name, Evremonde, for being an emigrant returned, but the words “In Secret” are put with his arrest papers.
· Defarge handles it and asks him why in heaven he returned to France—he knows he’s married to Lucie “In the name of that sharp female newly-born, La Guillotine, why did you come to France”—why does he ask this? What is he worried about? “A bad truth for you”
· 195 “I am not to buried there, prejudged, and without any means of presenting my case?”
“You will see. But, what then? Other people have been similarly buried in worse prisons, before now.”
“But never by me, Citizen Defarge.”
Defarge refuses to do anything to help Darnay, despite his connection to Dr. Manette
· What has changed since the revolution began?
· The revolution is just getting started and will become much more bloody. All will know the guillotine soon. Darnay made a big mistake to come at this time, just as the revolution was beginning
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197: irony. One more prisoner (Darnay) must be
taken in despite the over crowding “For the love of
· Enters the prison, La Force, and is surprised by the refinement of the prisoners. All the upperclass is in prison looking like ghosts 197 “The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore”
· Being “In secret” is especially bad, but unknown to Darnay. What is it?
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· Outside of Monseigneur in the City’s house, is the large grindstone
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Mr. Lorry is in
· 202 “I have a charmed life in this city. I have been a Bastille prisoner. There is no patriot in . . . France—who, knowing me to have been a prisoner in the Bastille, would touch me, except to overwhelm me with embraces, or carry me in triumph. My old pain has give me a power that has brought us through the barrier, and gained us news of Charles there, and brought us here.”
· Predictions? Darnay, Lucie and Manette are all there—what will happen?
· 203 “The grindstone had a double handle, and, turning at it madly were two men, whose faces, as their long hair flapped back when the whirlings of the grindstone brought their faces up, were more horrible and cruel than the visages of the wildest savages in the most barbarous disguise. . . and what with dropping blood, and what with dropping wine, and what with the stream of sparks struck out of the stone, all their wicked atmosphere seemed gore and fire. The eye could not detect one creature in the group free from the smear of blood. . . Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it.”
· Dr. Manette goes down into this blood bath, and all cheer him on “Live the Bastille prisoner! Help for the Bastille prisoner’s kindred in La Force! Room for the Bastille prisoner in front there! Save the prisoner Evremonde at La Force!”
Little Lucie, Miss Pross, and Jerry are in
Defarge and Madame Defarge deliver a not from Darnay and ask to see Lucie and Little Lucie so they may be “protected” but the tone is much more ominous
207: “Is that his child?” said Madame Defarge, stopping in her work for the first time, and pointing her knitting-needle at little Lucie as if it were the finger of Fate.”
“The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the child, that her mother instinctively kneeled on the group beside her, and held her to her breast.”