A Tale of Two Cities: 227 – 247
What is the metaphor? How does Carton outwit Barsad?
Who is John Barsad?
What do they figure out about Roger Cly?
What does Carton set up?
231: “there was a braced purpose in the arm and in dind of inspiratin in the eyew, which not only contradicted his light manner, but changed and raised the man.”
239: “You are a good man and a true friend. . . Forgive me if I notice that you are affected. I could not see my father weep, and sit by, careless. And I could not respect your sorrow more, if you were my father. You are free from that misfortune, however.”
241: “If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, ‘I have secured to myself the love and attachement, the gratitude or respect of no human creature: I have won myself a tener place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!’ your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”
242: “How goes the Republic?”
“You mean the Guillotine. Not ill. Sixty-three today. We shall mount to a hundred soon. Samson and his men complain sometimes, of being exhausted. Ha, ha, ha! He is so droll, that Samson. Such a Barber!”
Carton’s French is flawless
243: “It was the settled manner of a tired man, who had wandered and struggled and got lost, but who at length struck into his road and saw its end.”
“Long, when he had been famous among his earliest competitors as a youth of great promise, he had followed his father to the grave. His mother had died, years before. These solemen words, which had been read at his father’s grave, arose in his mind . . . ‘I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.” John 11:25
244: “But the glorious sun, rising, seemed to strike those words, that burden of the night, straight and warm to his heart in its long bright rays. And looking along them, with reverently shaded eyes, a bridge of light appeared to span the air between him and the sun, while the river sparkled under it.”
245: her look of love, tenderness and courage strengths Darnay and has the same effect on Carton
246: “If the Republic should demand of you the sacrifice of your child herself, you would have no duty but to sacrifice her.” The Republic has taken the place of God.
Three accusing Darnay: Madame Defarge, Ernest Defarge, and Dr. Manette!
Found a letter in Dr. Manette’s cell