Project Gutenberg #98
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1859Dickens's French Revolution novel, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext for vocabulary-focused reading.
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Chapter 6 — CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker Central question What has imprisonment done to Dr. Manette? Main argument Lucie and Lorry find Manette in the garret, absorbed in making shoes and barely responsive to human...
Defarge. And so, under a short
grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great
grove of stars.
Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from
this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their
rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything
is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black.
All through the cold and restless interval, until dawn, they once more
whispered in the ears of Mr. Jarvis Lorry--sitting opposite the buried
man who had been dug out, and wondering what subtle powers were for ever
lost to him, and what were capable of restoration--the old inquiry:
“I hope you care to be recalled to life?”
And the old answer:
“I can’t say.”
The end of the first book.
Book the Second--the Golden Thread