Recalled To Life Part One Of The Tale Of Two Cities
(CHARLES DICKENS)
Book the First: Recalled to LifeMr. Lorry travels to Dover to meet a young woman, Lucie Manette. When she arrives, Mr. Lorry introduces himself and tells her that her father, Doctor Manette, a prisoner in Paris for the past eighteen years, has been recently released by the French government. Tellson?s Bank is sending Mr. Lorry to identify the doctor (who had been one of Tellson?s clients) and bring him to England. The news shocks Lucie; when Mr. Lorry tries to comfort her, then calls for help. A large, red-haired woman, Miss Pross (Lucie's caretaker and the servant of the Manettes) takes charge of her.The story then cuts abruptly to the town of Saint Antoine, a suburb of Paris, France, where a cask of wine accidentally splits open and spills on the ground. The starved working-class French seize the opportunity to drink free wine. They jubilantly suck as much wine off the street as they can. Watching is M. Defarge, the owner of the wineshop and leader of a band of revolutionaries. Afterwards, he goes back into his shop, confers briefly with his wife, and talks to a group of fellow revolutionaries, who call each other (for anonymity) "Jacques".Mr. Lorry and Lucie Manette arrive and Defarge takes them to his apartment to see Dr. Manette. The doctor is, to all appearances, completely mad. He sits in a dark room all day making shoes, still believing he is in prison. Lucie takes him to England.
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