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[Assistant] All assembled there. Nobody leaves the cows out. The cows are there with the rest.


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[Assistant] At midday, the roll of drums, soldiers have marched into the prison in the night, and he is in the midst of many soldiers.


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[Assistant] Tied so with a tight string, making him look almost as if he laughed.


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[Assistant] They looked at one another as he used his blue cap to wipe his face on which the perspiration had started afresh while he recalled the spectacle. It is frightful, Monsieur.


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[Assistant] When I left the village Monday evening as the sun was going to bed and looked back from the hill, the shadow struck across the church, across the mill, across the prison, seemed to strike across the earth, Monsieur, to where the sky rests upon it.


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[Assistant] Monsieur, I left at sunset, as I had been warned to do, and I walked on, that night and half next day, until I met, as I was warned I should, this comrade. With him I came on, now riding and now walking, through the rest of yesterday and through last night, and here you see me. After a gloomy silence, the first Jacques said, Good, you have acted and recounted faithfully. Will you wait for us a little, outside the door?


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[Assistant] The three had risen and their heads were together when he came back to the gallet. Acaiougiac demanded number one to be registered. To be registered as doomed to destruction, returned Defarge. Magnificent, croaked the man with the craving. The chateau and all the race, inquired the first. The chateau and all the race, returned Defarge. Extermination.


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[Assistant] The hungry man repeated in a rapturous croak, magnificent, and began gnawing another finger. Are you sure?


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[Assistant] Asked Jacques II of the Farge that no embarrassment can arise from our manner of keeping the register. Without doubt, it is safe, for no one beyond ourselves can decipher it. But shall we always be able to decipher it? Or, I ought to say, will she? Jacques returned the Farge, drawing himself up


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[Assistant] If Madame, my wife, undertook to keep the register in her memory alone, she would not lose a word of it, not a syllable of it. Knitted in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be explained to her as the sun. Confide in Madame d'Assage.


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[Assistant] It would be easier for the weakest platoon that lives to erase himself from existence than to erase one letter of his name or crimes from the knitted register of Madame Defarge.


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[Assistant] There was a murmur of confidence and approval, and then the man who hungered asked, Is this rustic to be sent back soon? I hope so. He is very simple. Is he not a little dangerous? He knows nothing, said the phage.


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[Assistant] He wishes to see the fine world, the king, the queen, and court. Let him see them on Sunday. What? exclaimed the hungry man staring. Is it a good sign that he wishes to see royalty and nobility? Jacques, said Defarge.


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[Assistant] Judiciously show a dog his natural prey if you wish him to bring it down one day.


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[Assistant] Nothing more was said, and the mender of roads being found already dozing on the topmost stair.


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[Assistant] Was advised to lay himself down on the pallet bed and take some rest. He needed no persuasion and was soon asleep.


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[Assistant] Worthquarters than Dessage's wine shop could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that degree.


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[Assistant] Saving for a mysterious dread of Madame by which he was constantly haunted, his life was very new and agreeable. But Madame sat all day at her counter.


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[Assistant] That he shook in his wooden shoes whenever his eyes lighted on her.


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[Assistant] Before he contended with himself that it was impossible to foresee what that lady might pretend next and he felt assured


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[Assistant] To pretend that she had seen him do a murder and afterwards flay the victim.


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[Assistant] Therefore, when Sunday came, the Mender of Rhodes was not enchanted, though he said he was.


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[Assistant] To find that Madame was to accompany Monsieur and himself to Versailles.


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[Assistant] It was additionally disconcerting to have Madame knitting all the way there in a public conveyance. It was additionally disconcerting yet to have Madame in the crowd in the afternoon, still with her knitting in her hands, as the crowd waited to see the carriage of the King and Queen. You work hard, Madame, said a man near her.


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[Assistant] Yes, answered Madame Defarge, I have a good deal to do. What do you make, Madame? Many things, for instance. For instance, returned Madame Defarge, composedly, shrouds. The man moved a little further away as soon as he could, and the mender of roads fanned himself with his blue cap, feeling it mightily close and oppressive. If he needed the king and queen to restore him,


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[Assistant] For soon the large-faced king and the fair-faced queen came in their golden coach, attended by the shining bull's eye of their court.


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[Assistant] A glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords.


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[Assistant] That he cried, long live the king, long live the queen, long live everybody and everything.


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[Assistant] As if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time.


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[Assistant] Then there were gardens, courtyards, terraces, fountains, green banks, more king and queen, more bulls-eye, more lords and ladies, more long live they all, until he absolutely wept with sentiment.


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[Assistant] During the whole of this scene, which lasted some three hours, he had plenty of shouting and weeping and sentimental company, and throughout, Defarge held him by the collar.


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[Assistant] And would stop it forever and ever. In you or in a hundred like you, rather than in one of their own horses or dogs, they only know what your breath tells them.


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[Assistant] As to you, said she, you would shout and shed tears for anything if it made a show and a noise. Say, would you not? Truly, madam, I think so, for the moment.


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[Assistant] You have seen both dolls and birds today, said Madame Defarge, with a wave of her hand towards the place where they had last been apparent. Now go home.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge and Monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine.


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[Assistant] While a speck in a blue cap, toiled through the darkness and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass, where the shadow of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees.


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[Assistant] Such ample leisure had the stone faces now for listening to the trees and to the fountain.


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[Assistant] Strayed within sight of the great stone courtyard and terraced staircase.


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[Assistant] had a faint and bare existence there as its people had, that when the knife struck home,


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[Assistant] The faces changed from faces of pride to faces of anger and pain.


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[Assistant] Also, that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty feet above the fountain, they changed again and bore a cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear forever.


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[Assistant] In the stone face over the great window of the bedchamber where the murder was done.


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[Assistant] Two fine dints were pointed out in the sculptured nose, which everybody recognized, and which nobody had seen of old.


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[Assistant] And on the scarce occasion when two or three ragged peasants emerged from the crowd to take a hurried peep at Michio the Marquis Petrified, a skinny finger would not have pointed to it for a minute before they all started away among the moss and leaves, like the more fortunate hares who could find a living there. Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well, thousands of acres of land,


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[Assistant] So does the whole world with all its greatnesses and littlenesses lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split array of life


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[Assistant] Every vice and virtue of every responsible creature on it. The Defarge's husband and wife came lumbering under the starlight.


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[Assistant] There was the usual stoppage at the barrier guardhouse, and the usual lanterns came glancing forth for the usual examination and inquiry. Monsieur Defarge, alighted, knowing one or two of the soldiery there and one of the police, the latter he was intimate with and affectionately embraced.


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[Assistant] When Saint Antoine had again enfolded the Defarges in his dusky wings,


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[Assistant] And they, having finally alighted near the saint's boundaries,


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[Assistant] Age about 40 years, height about 5 feet 9, black hair, complexion dark, generally rather handsome visage.


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[Assistant] Eyes dark, face thin, long and sallow, Nosed aquiline but not straight.


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[Assistant] Having a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek. Expression, therefore, sinister. Eh, my faith, it is a portrait, said Madame, laughing. He shall be registered tomorrow.


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[Assistant] And where Madame Defarge immediately took her post at her desk.


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[Assistant] Counted the small monies that had been taken during her absence, examined the stock, went through the entries in the book, made other entries of her own, checked the serving man in every possible way and finally dismissed him to bed.


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[Assistant] Then she turned out the contents of the bowl of money for the second time and began knotting them up in her handkerchief in a chain of separate knots for safekeeping through the night.


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[Assistant] All this while Defarge with his pipe in his mouth walked up and down, complacently admiring but never interfering.


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[Assistant] In which condition indeed, as to the business and his domestic affairs, he walked up and down through life.


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[Assistant] And the shop, close shut and surrounded by so foul a neighborhood, was ill smelling.


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[Assistant] Monsieur Defarge's olfactory sense was by no means delicate.


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[Assistant] But the stock of wine smelt much stronger than it ever tasted. And so did the stock of rum and brandy and aniseed.


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[Assistant] He whiffs a compound of scents away as he put down his smoked out pipe. You are fatigued, said Madame, raising her glance as she nodded the money. There are only the usual odors. I am a little tired, her husband acknowledged. You are a little depressed too, said Madame, whose quick eyes had never been so intent on the accounts, but they had had a ray or two for him. Oh, the men, the men.


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[Assistant] Vengeance and retribution require a long time. It is the rule. It does not take a long time to strike a man with lightning, said Defarge. How long, demanded Madame composedly, does it take to make and store the lightning?


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[Assistant] The fage raised his head thoughtfully as if there was something in that too. It does not take a long time, said Madame, for an earthquake to swallow a town. Farewell.


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[Assistant] But when it is ready, it takes place and grinds to pieces everything before it.


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[Assistant] It is always preparing, though it is not seen or heard. That is your consolation. Keep it. She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe. I tell thee, said Madame, extending her right hand for emphasis, that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing.


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[Assistant] Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know. Consider the faces of all the world that we know.


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[Assistant] Consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour.


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[Assistant] of an aristocrat and tyrant and still I would


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[Assistant] But it is your weakness that you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity to sustain you. Sustain yourself without that. When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil, but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained, not shown, yet always ready. Madame enforced the conclusion of this piece of advice,


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[Assistant] By striking her little counter with her chain of money as if she knocked its brains out.


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[Assistant] And then gathering the heavy handkerchief under her arm in a serene manner and observing that it was time to go to bed.


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[Assistant] Next, Noontide saw the admirable woman in her usual place in the wine shop knitting away assiduously. A rose lay beside her, and if she now and then glanced at the flower,


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[Assistant] It was with no infraction of her usual preoccupied air.


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[Assistant] There were a few customers drinking or not drinking, standing or seated, sprinkled about.


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[Assistant] The day was very hot and heaps of flies who were extending their inquisitive and adventurous perquisitions into all the glutinous little glasses near Badam fell dead at the bottom.


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[Assistant] A figure entering at the door through a shadow on Madame Defarge, which she felt to be a new one.


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[Assistant] She laid down her knitting and began to pin her rose in her headdress before she looked at the figure. It was curious. The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking and began gradually to drop out of the wine shop. Good day, Madame, said the newcomer. Good day, Monsieur.


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[Assistant] She said it aloud, but added to herself as she resumed her knitting.


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[Assistant] Good day, age about forty, height about five feet nine, black hair, generally rather handsome visage, complexion dark, eyes dark, thin, long and sallow face, aquiline nose, but not straight, having a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek, which imparts a sinister expression. Good day, one and all.


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[Assistant] Have the goodness to give me a little glass of old cognac and a mouthful of cool fresh water, Madame? Madame complied with a polite air. Marvelous cognac, this Madame. It was the first time it had ever been so complemented.


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[Assistant] And Madame de Farce knew enough of its antecedents to know better. She said, however, that the cognac was flattered and took up her knitting.


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[Assistant] The visitor watched her fingers for a few moments, then took the opportunity of observing the place in general. You knit with great skill, Madame. I am accustomed to it. A pretty pattern, too. You think so? said Madame, looking at him with a smile.


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[Assistant] Said Madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry. I'll use it. It was remarkable.


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[Assistant] But the taste of Saint Antoine seemed to be decidedly opposed to a rose on the headdress of Madame Defarge.


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[Assistant] Two men had entered separately and had been about to order drink when, catching sight of that novelty, they faltered.


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[Assistant] Made a pretence of looking about as if for some friend who was not there and went away.


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[Assistant] Nor of those who had been there when this visitor entered was there one left. They had all dropped off. The spy had kept his eyes open, but had been able to detect no signs.


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[Assistant] Business is very bad. The people are so poor. Ah, the unfortunate miserable people. So oppressed too, as you say. As you say, Madame retorted, correcting him.


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[Assistant] Pardon me, certainly it was I who said so, but you naturally think so. Of course.


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[Assistant] And it gives us from morning to night enough to think about without embarrassing our heads concerning others.


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[Assistant] The spy who was there to pick up any crumbs he could find or make.


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[Assistant] Did not allow his baffled state to express itself in his sinister face but stood with an air of gossiping gallantry, leaning his elbow on Madame Defarge's little counter and occasionally sipping his cognac.


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[Assistant] A bad business this, Madame, of Gaspard's execution. Ah, the poor Gaspard, with a sigh of great compassion. My faith, returned Madame, coolly and lightly. If people use knives for such purposes, they have to pay for it. He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was. He has paid the price.


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[Assistant] I believe, said the spy, dropping his soft voice to a tone that invited confidence.


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[Assistant] As the keeper of the wine shop entered at the door, the spies saluted him by touching his hat and saying with an engaging smile, Good day Jacques. Defarge stopped short and stared at him.


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[Assistant] Good day, Jacques, the spy repeated, with not quite so much confidence or quite so easy a smile under the stair. You deceive yourself, monsieur, returns the keeper of the wine shop. You mistake me for another. That is not my name. I am Ernest Defarge.


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[Assistant] It is all the same, said the spy, eerily, but discomfited too. Good day. Good day, answered the Farge dryly.


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[Assistant] He passed behind a little counter and stood with his hand on the back of his wife's


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[Assistant] Looking over that barrier at the person to whom they were both opposed and whom either of them would have shot with the greatest satisfaction. The spy, well used to his business, did not change his unconscious attitude, but drained his little glass of cognac, took a sip of fresh water, and asked for another glass of cognac. Madame Defarge poured it out for him.


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[Assistant] You seem to know this quarter well, that is to say, better than I do. Observe, Defarge. Not at all, but I hope to know it better.


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[Assistant] I am so profoundly interested in its miserable inhabitants.


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[Assistant] The pleasure of conversing with you, Monsieur Defarge, recalls to me, Pursued the Spy,


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[Assistant] In an accidental touch of his wife's elbow as she knitted and warbled,


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[Assistant] And it was from your care that his daughter took him, accompanied by a neat brown monsieur. How is he called?


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[Assistant] In a little wig, lorry of the Bank of Telson and Company over to England. Such is the fact, repeated Defarge. Very interesting remembrances, said the Spy. I have known Dr. Manette and his daughter in England. Yes, said Defarge. You don't hear much about them now, said the Spy. No, said Defarge.


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[Assistant] We received the news of their safe arrival and perhaps another letter or perhaps two, but since then they have gradually taken their road in life, we ours, and we have held no correspondence. Perfectly so, Madame, replied the spy. She is going to be married. Going, echoed Madame. She was pretty enough to have been married long ago. You English are cold, it seems to me.


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[Assistant] Oh, you know I am English. I perceive your tongue is, returned Madame, and what the tongue is I suppose the man is. He did not take the identification as a compliment, but he made the best of it and turned it off with a laugh. After sipping his cognac to the end, he added, yes, Miss Manette is going to be married, but not to an Englishman, to one who like herself is French by birth. And speaking of Gaspard, ah,


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[Assistant] It is a curious thing that he is going to marry the nephew of Monsieur the Marquis, for whom Gaspard was exalted to that height of so many feet. In other words, the present Marquis. But he lives unknown in England. He is no Marquis there. He is Mr. Charles Darnay. Donay is the name of his mother's family. Madame Defarge knitted steadily.


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[Assistant] But the intelligence had a palpable effect upon her husband. Do what he would.


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[Assistant] Behind the little counter as to the striking of a light and the lighting of his pipe, he was troubled and his hand was not trustworthy.


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[Assistant] The spy would have been no spy if he had failed to see it or to record it in his mind.


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[Assistant] Having made at least this one hit, whatever it might prove to be worth, and no customers coming in to help him to any other,


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[Assistant] Mr. Bassad paid for what he had drunk and took his leave.


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[Assistant] Taking occasion to say in a gentile manner before he departed.


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[Assistant] That he looked forward to the pleasure of seeing Monsieur and Madame Defarge again.


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[Assistant] For some minutes after he had emerged into the outer presence of Saint-Antoine, the husband and wife remained exactly as he had left them, lest he should come back. Can it be true, said Defarge, in a low voice, looking down at his wife as he stood smoking with his hand on the back of her chair, what he has said of Mademoiselle Manette? As he has said it, returned Madame, lifting her eyebrows a little, it is probably false.


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[Assistant] And if it does come, while we live to see its triumph.


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[Assistant] I hope for her sake, destiny will keep her husband out of France. Her husband's destiny, said Madame Defarge, with her usual composure, will take him where he is to go, and will lead him to the end that is to end him. That is all I know. But it is very strange, now at least is it not very strange, said Defarge, rather pleading with his wife to induce her to admit it,


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[Assistant] By the side of that infernal dog who has just left us? Stranger things than that will happen when it does come, answered Madame. I have them both here of a certainty, and they are both here for their merits. That is enough. She rolled up her knitting when she had said those words.


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[Assistant] Either Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone, or Saint Antoine was on the watch for its disappearance. How be it?


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[Assistant] The saint took courage to lounge in very shortly afterwards, and the wine shop recovered its habitual aspect.


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[Assistant] In the evening, at which season, of all others, St Antoine turned himself inside out and sat on doorsteps and window ledges and came to the corners of vile streets and court for a breath of air. Madame Defarge, with her work in her hand,


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[Assistant] The mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking. The hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus. If the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine pinched. But as the fingers went, the eyes went and the thoughts. And as Madame Defarge moved on from group to group,


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[Assistant] All three went quicker and fiercer among every little knot of women that she had spoken with and left behind. Her husband smoked at his door, looking after her with admiration. A great woman, said he, a strong woman, a grand woman, a frightfully grand woman.


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[Assistant] Darkness closed around, and then came the ringing of church bells.


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[Assistant] And the distant beating of the military drums of the Royal Guard as the women sat knitting, knitting. Darkness encompassed them.


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[Assistant] Another darkness was closing in as surely.


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[Assistant] When the church bells, then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France, should be melted into thundering cannons.


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[Assistant] That night, all potent as the voice of power and plenty, freedom and life. So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting,


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[Assistant] The day their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting, dropping heads.


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[Assistant] Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in Soho.


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[Assistant] Then one memorable evening when the doctor and his daughter sat under the plane tree together.


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[Assistant] Never did the moon rise with a milder radiance over Great London than on that night when it found them still seated under the tree and shone upon their faces through its leaves. Lucy was to be married tomorrow. She had reserved this last evening for her father, and they sat alone under the plane tree. You are happy, my dear father? Quite, my child. They had said little, though they had been there a long time.


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[Assistant] She had neither engaged herself in her usual work, nor had she read to him.


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[Assistant] But if my life were not to be still consecrated to you, or if my marriage were so arranged as that it would part us, even by the length of a few of these streets,


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[Assistant] I should be more unhappy and self-approachful now than I can tell you, even as it is. Even as it was, she could not command her voice. In the sad moonlight, she clasped him by the neck and laid her face upon his breast. In the moonlight, which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is, as the light called human life is, at its coming and its going.


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[Assistant] Can you tell me this last time that you feel quite, quite sure no new affections of mine and no new duties of mine will ever interpose between us? I know it well, but do you know it? In your own heart do you feel quite certain?


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[Assistant] My future is far brighter, Lucy, seen through your marriage.


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[Assistant] Consider how natural and plain it is, my dear, that it should be so.


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[Assistant] You devoted and young cannot fully appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted. She moved her hand towards his lips but he took it in his and repeated the word. Wasted, my child, should not be wasted.


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[Assistant] But only ask yourself, how could my happiness be perfect while yours was incomplete? If I had never seen Charles, my father, I should have been quite happy with you.


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[Assistant] If it had been no other, I should have been the cause, and then the dark part of my life would have cast its shadow beyond myself and would have fallen on you.


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[Assistant] It was the first time except at the trial of her ever hearing him refer to the period of his suffering.


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[Assistant] I have looked at her when it has been such torture to me to think of her shining upon what I had lost, that I have beaten my head against my prison ward.


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[Assistant] I have looked at her in a stage so dull and lethargic.


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[Assistant] That I have thought of nothing but the number of horizontal lines I could draw across her at the full and the number of perpendicular lines with which I could intersect them.


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[Assistant] He added in his inward and pondering manner as he looked at the moon. It was twenty. Either way, I remember. And the twentieth was difficult to squeeze in.


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[Assistant] The strange thrill with which she heard him go back to that time deepened as he dwelt upon it. But there was nothing to shock her in the manner of his reference.


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[Assistant] There was a time in my imprisonment when my desire for vengeance was unbearable. Whether it was a son who would never know his father's story, who might even live to weigh the possibility of his father's having disappeared of his own will and act. Whether it was a daughter who would grow to be a woman. She drew closer to him and kissed his cheek and his hand. I have pictured my daughter to myself as perfectly forgetful of me.


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[Assistant] Rather, altogether ignorant of me and unconscious of me.


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[Assistant] I have cast up the years of her age year after year.


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[Assistant] I have seen her married to a man who knew nothing of my fate. I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank.


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[Assistant] Even to hear that you had such thoughts of a daughter who never existed strikes to my heart as if I had been that child.


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[Assistant] It is out of the consolation and restoration you have brought to me that these remembrances arise.


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[Assistant] You understand that that was not the child I am speaking of. The figure was not. The, the image, the fancy?


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[Assistant] It stood before my disturbed sense of sight, but it never moved.


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[Assistant] The phantom that my mind pursued was another and more real child.


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[Assistant] I doubt you must have been a solitary prisoner to understand these perplexed distinctions.


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[Assistant] Her life was active, cheerful, useful, but my poor history pervaded it all. I was that child, my father. I was not half so good, but in my love, that was I. And she showed me her children, said the doctor of Beauvais, and they had heard of me and had been taught to pity me. When they passed the prison of the state, they kept far from its frowning walls.


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[Assistant] Oh my dear, my dear, will you bless me as fervently tomorrow? Lucy.


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[Assistant] I recall these old troubles in the reason that I have tonight for loving you better than words can tell and thanking God for my great happiness. My thoughts when they were wildest.


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[Assistant] Never rose near the happiness that I have known with you and that we have before us.


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[Assistant] He embraced her, solemnly commanded her to heaven, and humbly thanked heaven for having bestowed her on him. By and by they went into the house. There was no one bidden to the marriage but Mr. Lorry.


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[Assistant] They had been able to extend it by taking to themselves the upper rooms, formerly belonging to the apocryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more. Dr. Manette was very cheerful at the little supper.


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[Assistant] They were only three at table, and Miss Prost made the third. He regretted that Charles was not there.


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[Assistant] Was more than half disposed to object to the loving little plot that kept him away and drank to him affectionately. So the time came for him to bid Lucy good night and they separated. But in the stillness of the third hour of the morning, Lucy came downstairs again and stole into his room.


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[Assistant] She put her needless candle in the shadow at a distance, crept up to his bed, and put her lips to his, then leaned over him and looked at him. Into his handsome face, the bitter waters of captivity had warned.


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[Assistant] But he covered up their tracks with a determination so strong that he held the mastery of them even in his sleep.


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[Assistant] was not to be beheld in all the wide dominion of sleep that night. She timidly laid her hand on his dear breast and put up a prayer that she might ever be as true to him as her love aspired to be and as his sorrows deserve.


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[Assistant] Then she withdrew her hand and kissed his lips once more and went away. So the sunrise came.


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[Assistant] A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart.


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[Assistant] The cask had tumbled out with a run the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine shop, shattered like a walnut shell.


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[Assistant] All the people within reach had suspended their business or their idleness to run to the spot and drink the wine.


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[Assistant] The rough irregular stones of the street pointing every way and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had damned it into little pools.


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[Assistant] These were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd according to its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women who bent over their shoulders to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers.


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[Assistant] Others made small mud embankments to stem the wine as it ran. Others, directed by lookers on up at high windows, darted here and there to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions.


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[Assistant] Others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking and even champing the moister wine-rotted fragments with eager relish.


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[Assistant] There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up.


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[Assistant] But so much mud got taken up along with it that there might have been a scavenger in the street if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.


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[Assistant] A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices. Voices of men, women, and children resounded in the street while this wine game lasted.


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[Assistant] There was little roughness in the sport and much playfulness.


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[Assistant] There was a special companionship in it, an observable inclination on the part of everyone to join some other one, which led especially among the luckier or light-hearted.


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[Assistant] To Frolicsome embraces drinking of healths, shaking of hands, and even joining of hands and dancing a dozen together.


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[Assistant] When the wine was gone, and the places where it had been most abundant were raked into a gridiron pattern by fingers, these demonstrations ceased as suddenly as they had broken out.


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[Assistant] The man who had left his saw sticking in the firewood he was cutting set it in motion again.


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[Assistant] The woman who had left on a doorstep the little pot of hot ashes at which she had been trying to soften the pain in her own starved fingers and toes, or in those of her child, returned to it.


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[Assistant] Men with bare arms, matted locks and cadaverous faces, who had emerged into the winter light from cellars, moved away to descend again.


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[Assistant] And a gloom gathered on the scene that appeared more natural to it than sunshine.


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[Assistant] The wine was red wine and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of San Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled.


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[Assistant] It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes.


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[Assistant] The hands of the man who sawed the wood left red marks on the billets.


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[Assistant] And the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again.


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[Assistant] Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth.


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[Assistant] And one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it,


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[Assistant] Scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-leaves, blood.


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[Assistant] The time was to come when that wine too would be spilled on the street stones, and when the stain of it would be read upon many there.


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[Assistant] And now that the cloud settled on San Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy. Cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want were the lords-in-waiting on the saintly presence. Nobles of great power, all of them, but most especially the last.


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[Assistant] Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill.


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[Assistant] And certainly not in the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook.


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[Assistant] The mill which had worked them down was the mill that grinds young people old.


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[Assistant] The children had ancient faces and grave voices and upon them and upon the grown faces and plowed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh was the sign hunger. It was prevalent everywhere.


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[Assistant] Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines.


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[Assistant] Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper.


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[Assistant] Hungo was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off.


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[Assistant] Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys and started up from the filthy street that had no offal among its refuse of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves


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[Assistant] Written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread.


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[Assistant] At the sausage shop, in every dead dog preparation that was offered for sale.


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[Assistant] Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder.


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[Assistant] Hungo was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.


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[Assistant] Its abiding place was in all things fitted to it.


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[Assistant] A narrow winding street, full of offense and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things, with a brooding look upon them that looked ill.


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[Assistant] In the hunted air of the people, there was yet some wild beast thought of the possibility of turning at bay.


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[Assistant] Depressed and slinking though they were, Eyes of fire were not wanting among them, Nor compressed lips, white, with what they suppressed, Nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows' rope They mused about enduring or inflicting.


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[Assistant] The trade signs, and they were almost as many as the shops, were all grim illustrations of want.


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[Assistant] The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat. The baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.


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[Assistant] The people rudely pictured as drinking in the wine shops croaked over their scanty measures of thin wine and beer and were gloweringly confidential together.


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[Assistant] Nothing was represented in a flourishing condition save tools and weapons.


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[Assistant] But the cutler's knives and axes were sharp and bright, the smith's hammers were heavy, and the gunmaker's stock was murderous.


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[Assistant] The crippling stones of the pavement with their many little reservoirs of mud and water had no footways, but broke off abruptly at the doors.


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[Assistant] The kennel to make amends ran down the middle of the street.


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[Assistant] When it ran at all, which was only after heavy rains, and then it ran by many eccentric fits into the houses.


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[Assistant] Across the streets, at wide intervals, one clumsy lamp was slung by a rope and pulley.


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[Assistant] It's night when the lamplighter had let these down and lighted and hoisted them again.


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[Assistant] A feeble grove of dim wicks swung in a sickly manner overhead, as if they were at sea.


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[Assistant] For the time was to come when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter in their idleness and hunger so long as to conceive the idea of improving on his method and hauling up men by those ropes and pulleys to flare upon the darkness of their condition. But the time was not come yet.


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[Assistant] And every wind that blew over France shook the rags of the scarecrows in vain, for the birds, fine of song and feather, took no warning. The wine shop was a corner shop.


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[Assistant] Better than most others in its appearance and degree, and the master of the wine shop had stood outside it in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches, looking on at the struggle for the last wine.


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[Assistant] It's not my affair, said he, with a final shrug of the shoulders. The people from the market did it. Let's them bring another.


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[Assistant] There, his eyes happening to catch the tall joker writing up his joke, he called to him across the way. Say then, my guest bar, what do you do there? The fellow pointed to his joke with immense significance, as is often the way with his tribe.


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[Assistant] It missed its mark and completely failed, as is often the way with his tribe too.


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[Assistant] What now? Are you a subject for the mad hospital? said the wine shopkeeper, crossing the road, and obliterating the jest with a handful of mud, picked up for the purpose, and smeared over it. Why do you write in the public streets?


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[Assistant] Is there, tell me thou, is there no other place to write such words in?


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[Assistant] In his expostulation, he dropped his cleaner hand, perhaps accidentally, perhaps not, upon the Joker's heart.


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[Assistant] The joker wrapped it with his own, took a nimble spring upward, and came down in a fantastic dancing attitude, with one of his stained shoes jerked off his foot into his hand and held out.


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[Assistant] A joker of an extremely, not to say wolfishly practical character he looked under those circumstances.


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[Assistant] Put it on, put it on, said the other. Call wine, wine, and finish there.


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[Assistant] With that advice, he wiped his soiled hand upon the joker's dress, such as it was, quite deliberately as having dirtied the hand on his account, and then recrossed the road and entered the wine shop.


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[Assistant] This wine-shop keeper was a bull-necked, martial-looking man of thirty, and he should have been of a hot temperament, for although it was a bitter day, he wore no coat, but carried one slung over his shoulder.


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[Assistant] His shirt sleeves were rolled up, too, and his brown arms were bare to the elbows.


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[Assistant] Neither did he wear anything more on his head than his own crispy curling short dark hair.


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[Assistant] He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breath between them. Good human looking on the whole, but implacable looking too.


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[Assistant] Evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose. A man not desirable to be met rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side. For nothing would turn the man.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge, his wife, sat in the shop behind the counter as he came in.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed.


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[Assistant] A steady face, strong features and great composure of manner.


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[Assistant] There was a character about Madame Defarge from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge, being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head, though not to the concealment of her large earrings.


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[Assistant] Her knitting was before her, but she had laid it down to pick her teeth with a toothpick. Thus engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but coughed just one grain of a cough.


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[Assistant] This in combination with the lifting of her darkly defined eyebrows over her toothpick by the breadth of a line.


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[Assistant] Suggested to her husband that he would do well to look around the shop among the customers for any new customer who had dropped in while he stepped over the way.


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[Assistant] The wine shopkeeper accordingly rolled his eyes about until they rested upon an elderly gentleman and a young lady who were seated in a corner. Other company were there.


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[Assistant] Two playing cards, two playing dominoes.


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[Assistant] Three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine. As he passed behind the counter,


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[Assistant] He took notice that the elderly gentleman said in a look to the young lady, This is our man. What the devil do you do in that galley there? said Monsieur Defarge to himself. I don't know you.


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[Assistant] But he feigned not to notice the two strangers and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter.


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[Assistant] Said one of these three to M. Defarge, Is all the spilt wine swallowed? Every drop, Jacques, answered M. Defarge. When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line. It is not often


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[Assistant] At this second interchange of the Christian name, Madame Defarge, still using her toothpick with profound composure, coughed another grain of cough and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.


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[Assistant] The last of the three now said his say as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips.


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[Assistant] Ah, so much the worse. A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths. And hard lives they live, Jacques. Am I right, Jacques? You are right, Jacques, was the response of Monsieur Defarge.


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[Assistant] This third interchange of the Christian name was completed at the moment when Madame Defarge put her toothpick by, kept her eyebrows up, and slightly rustled in her seat. Hold then, true, muttered her husband. Gentlemen, my wife.


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[Assistant] The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge with three flourishes.


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[Assistant] She acknowledged their homage by bending her head and giving them a quick look.


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[Assistant] Then she glanced in a casual manner round the wine shop.


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[Assistant] Took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit and became absorbed in it. Gentlemen, said her husband, who had kept his bright eye observantly upon her, good day.


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[Assistant] The chamber furnished bachelor fashion that you wish to see and were inquiring for when I stepped out is on the fifth floor.


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[Assistant] The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here, pointing with his hand near to the window of my establishment. But now that I remember, one of you has already been there and can show the way. Gentlemen, adieu. They paid for their wine and left the place.


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[Assistant] The eyes of Mishu the Tharge were studying his wife at her knitting, when the elderly gentleman advanced from his corner and begged the favor of a word. Willingly so.


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[Assistant] Said M. Dothage and quietly stepped with him to the door.


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[Assistant] Almost at the first word, Monsieur Defarge started and became deeply attentive. It had not lasted a minute when he nodded and went out.


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[Assistant] The gentleman then beckoned to the young lady, and they too went out.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge knitted with nimble fingers and steady eyebrows and saw nothing.


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[Assistant] Mr. Jarvis Lorry and Miss Manette, emerging from the wine shop thus, joined Mr. Defarge in the doorway to which he had directed his other company just before.


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[Assistant] It opened from a stinking little black courtyard and was the general public entrance to a great pile of houses inhabited by a great number of people.


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[Assistant] In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master and put her hand to his lips.


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[Assistant] It was a gentle action, but not at all gently done.


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[Assistant] A very remarkable transformation had come over him in a few seconds. He had no good humor in his face, nor any openness of aspect left, but had become a secret angry, dangerous man.


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[Assistant] It is very high. It is a little difficult. Better to begin slowly. Thus, Monsieur Defarge in a stern voice to Mr. Lorry as they began ascending the stairs. Is he alone? The latter whispered. Alone? God help him who should be with him, said the other in the same low voice. Is he always alone then? Yes. Of his own desire?


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[Assistant] As he was when I first saw him after they found me and demanded to know if I would take him and at my peril be discreet. As he was then, so is he now. He is greatly changed. Changed. The keeper of the wine shop stopped to strike the wall with his hand and muttered a tremendous curse.


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[Assistant] No direct answer could have been half so forcible.


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[Assistant] Mr. Lottie's spirits grew heavier and heavier as he and his two companions ascended higher and higher.


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[Assistant] Such a staircase with its accessories in the older and more crowded parts of palace would be bad enough now.


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[Assistant] But at that time it was vile indeed to unaccustomed and unhardened senses.


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[Assistant] Every little habitation within the great foul nest of one high building.


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[Assistant] That is to say the room or rooms within every door that opened on the general staircase left its own heap of refuse on its own landing.


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[Assistant] Besides flinging other refuse from its own windows.


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[Assistant] The uncontrollable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered would have polluted the air even if poverty and deprivation has not loaded it with their intangible impurities. The two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.


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[Assistant] Through such an atmosphere, by a steep dark shaft of dirt and poison, the way lay.


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[Assistant] Yielding to his own disturbance of mind and to his young companion's agitation, which became greater every instant, Mr. Jarvis Lorry twice stopped to rest.


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[Assistant] Each of these stoppages was made at a doleful grating, by which any languishing good airs that were left uncorrupted seemed to escape.


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[Assistant] And all spoilt and sickly vapors seemed to crawl in.


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[Assistant] Through the rusted bars, tastes, rather than glimpses, were caught of the jumbled neighborhood.


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[Assistant] And nothing within range nearer or lower than the summits of the two great towers of Notre Dame had any promise on it of healthy life or wholesome aspirations. At last, the top of the staircase was gained and they stopped for the third time.


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[Assistant] There was yet an upper staircase of a steeper inclination and of contracted dimensions to be ascended before the garret story was reached.


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[Assistant] The keeper of the wine shop, always going a little in advance and always going on the side, which Mr. Lorry took.


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[Assistant] As though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady. Turn himself about here.


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[Assistant] You think it necessary to keep the unfortunate gentleman so retired? I think it necessary to turn the key.


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[Assistant] Mr. Defarge whispered it closer in his ear and frowned heavily. Why? Why? Because he has lived so long locked up that he would be frightened. Rave!


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[Assistant] Repeated Defarge bitterly? Yes. And the beautiful world we live in, when it is possible. And when many other such things are possible. And not only possible, but done. Done, you see. Under that sky there, every day. Long live the devil. Let us go on.


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[Assistant] This dialogue had been held in so very low a whisper that not a word of it had reached the young lady's ears.


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[Assistant] But by this time she trembled under such strong emotion, and her face expressed such deep anxiety, and above all such dread and terror, that Mr. Lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reassurance. Courage, dear miss, courage, business.


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[Assistant] The worst will be over in a moment. It is but passing the room door and the worst is over.


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[Assistant] Then all the good you bring to him, all the relief, all the happiness you bring to him, begin. Let our good friend here assist you on that side. That's well, Friend Defarge. Come now. Business, business. They went up slowly and softly. The staircase was short, and they were soon at the top. There, as it had an abrupt turn in it,


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[Assistant] They came all at once in sight of three men, whose heads were bent down close together at the side of a door, and who were intently looking into the room to which the door belonged, through some chinks or holes in the wall.


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[Assistant] On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned and rose and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine shop. I forgot them in the surprise of your visit, explained Monsieur Defarge. Leave us good boys, we have business here. The three glided by and went silently down.


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[Assistant] There appearing to be no other door on that floor and the keeper of the wine shop going straight to this one when they were left alone, Mr. Lorry asked him in a whisper with a little anger, Do you make a show of Monsieur Manette? I show him in the way you have seen to a chosen few. Is that well? I think it is well. Who are the few? How do you choose them? I choose them as real men of my name.


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[Assistant] Jacques is my name. To whom the sight is likely to do good. Enough. You are English. That is another thing. Stay there, if you please, a little moment.


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[Assistant] With an admonitory gesture to keep them back, he stooped and looked in through the crevice in the wall.


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[Assistant] Soon raising his head again, he struck twice or thrice upon the door, evidently with no other object than to make a noise there.


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[Assistant] With the same intention, he drew the key across it three or four times before he put it clumsily into the lock and turned in as heavily as he could.


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[Assistant] The door slowly opened inward under his hand, and he looked into the room and said something. A faint voice answered something.


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[Assistant] Little more than a single syllable could have been spoken on either side.


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[Assistant] He looked back over his shoulder and beckoned them to enter.


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[Assistant] Mr. Lorry got his arm securely round the daughter's waist and held her, for he felt that she was sinking.


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[Assistant] rendered in a manner desperate by her state and by the beckoning of their conductor.


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[Assistant] He drew over his neck the arm that shook upon his shoulder, lifted her a little, and hurried


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[Assistant] Close the door, locked it on the inside, took out the key again, and held it in his hand.


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[Assistant] All this he did methodically and with as loud and harsh an accompaniment of noise as he could make.


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[Assistant] For the window of dormer shape was in truth a door in the roof with a little crane over it for the hoisting up of stores from the street.


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[Assistant] Unglazed and closing up the middle in two pieces like any other door of French construction. To exclude the coals.


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[Assistant] One half of this door was fast closed, and the other was opened but a very little way.


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[Assistant] Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means that it was difficult on first coming in to see anything.


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[Assistant] Yet, work of that kind was being done in the garret. For with his back towards the door.


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[Assistant] And his face towards the window where the keeper of the wine shop stood looking at him


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[Assistant] A white haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes.


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[Assistant] Said Monsieur de Thage, looking down at the white head that bent low over the shoemaking.


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[Assistant] It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation as if it were at a distance.


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[Assistant] After a long silence, the head was lifted for another moment, and the voice replied,


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[Assistant] This time a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner before the face had dropped again.


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[Assistant] The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.


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[Assistant] It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it.


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[Assistant] Its deplorable peculiarity was that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.


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[Assistant] It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.


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[Assistant] So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful color faded away into a poor weak stain.


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[Assistant] So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground.


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[Assistant] So expressive it was of a hopeless and lost creature that a famished traveler wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die. Some minutes of silent work had passed, and the haggard eyes had looked up again, not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception beforehand.


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[Assistant] Looked with a vacant air of listening at the floor on one side of him.


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[Assistant] Then similarly at the floor on the other side of him, then upward at the speaker. What did you say? You can bear a little more light.


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[Assistant] Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.


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[Assistant] The opened half door was opened a little further and secured at that angle for the time. A broad ray of light fell into the garret.


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[Assistant] And showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labor.


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[Assistant] His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench.


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[Assistant] He had a white beard, raggedly cut, but not very long, a hollow face, and exceedingly bright eyes.


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[Assistant] The hollowness and thinness of his face would have caused them to look large under his yet dark eyebrows and his confused white hair, though they had been really otherwise.


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[Assistant] He and his old canvas frock and his loose stockings and all his poor tatters of clothes had, in a long seclusion from direct light and air,


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[Assistant] Faded down to such a dull uniformity of parchment yellow that it would have been hard to say which was which.


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[Assistant] He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent.


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[Assistant] So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze pausing in his work.


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[Assistant] He never looked at the figure before him without first looking down on this side of himself, then on that, as if he had lost the habit of associating place with sound.


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[Assistant] He never spoke without first wandering in this manner and forgetting to speak. Are you going to finish that pair of shoes today?


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[Assistant] Asked Defarge motioning to Mr. Lorry to come forward.


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[Assistant] But the question reminded him of his work and he bent over it again. Mr. Lorry came silently forward leaving the daughter by the door.


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[Assistant] When he had stood for a minute or two by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up. He showed no surprise at seeing another figure.


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[Assistant] But the unsteady fingers of one of his hands strayed to his lips as he looked at it.


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[Assistant] His lips and his nails were of the same pale lead color, and then the hand dropped to his work, and he once more bent over the shoe.


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[Assistant] The look and the action had occupied but an instant. You have a visitor, you see? said Monsieur de Thijs.


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[Assistant] Here is a visitor. The shoemaker looked up as before, but without removing a hand from his work. Come, said Defarge. Here is Monsieur, who knows a well-made shoe when he sees one. Show him that shoe you are working at. Take it, Monsieur. Mr. Lolly took it in his hand.


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[Assistant] Tell Monsieur what kind of shoe it is, and the maker's name.


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[Assistant] There was a longer pause than usual before the shoemaker replied,


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[Assistant] Couldn't you describe the kind of shoe for Monsieur's information?


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[Assistant] He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride. And the maker's name? said Defarge. Now that he had no work to hold, he laid the knuckles of the right hand in the hollow of the left, and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right, and then passed a hand across his bearded chin.


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[Assistant] And so on in regular changes, without a moment's intermission.


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[Assistant] The task of recalling him from the vacancy into which he always sank when he had spoken


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[Assistant] Was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon.


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[Assistant] With a weary sound that was not a sigh nor a groan, he bent to work again, until the silence was again broken.


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[Assistant] You are not a shoemaker by trade, said Mr. Lorry, looking steadfastly at him.


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[Assistant] His haggard eyes turned to Defarge, as if he would have transferred the question to him, but as no help came from that quarter.


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[Assistant] Ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time.


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[Assistant] His eyes came slowly back at last to the face from which they had wandered.


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[Assistant] When they rested on it, he started and resumed in the manner of a sleeper that moment awake, reverting to a subject of last night.


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[Assistant] And I got it with much difficulty after a long while, and I have made shoes ever since.


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[Assistant] As he held out his hand for the shoe that had been taken from him


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[Assistant] Mr. Lorry said, still looking steadfastly in his face, Mr. Manette, do you remember nothing of me? The shoe dropped to the ground, and he sat looking fixedly at the questioner. Mr. Manette, Mr. Lorry laid his hand upon Defarge's arm, do you remember nothing of this man? Look at him, look at me.


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[Assistant] Is there no old banker? No old business? No old servant? No old time rising in your mind, Mr. Manette?


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[Assistant] As the captive of many years sat looking fixedly by turns at Mr. Lorry and at Defarge,


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[Assistant] Some long, obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the


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[Assistant] Gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him. They were over-clouded again. They were fainter. They were gone. But they had been there.


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[Assistant] And so exactly was the expression repeated on the fair young face of her who had crept along the wall to a point where she could see him, and where she now stood looking at him, with hands which at first had been only raised in frightened compassion, if not even to keep him off and shut out the sight of him.


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[Assistant] But which were now extending towards him, trembling with eagerness to lay the spectral face upon her warm young breast and love it back to life and hope.


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[Assistant] So exactly was the expression repeated.


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[Assistant] Though in stronger characters, on her fair young face,


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[Assistant] That it looked as though it had passed like a moving light from him to her.


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[Assistant] Darkness had fallen on him in its place.


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[Assistant] He looked at the two less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy abstraction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way. Finally, with a deep, long sigh, he took the shoe up and resumed his work.


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[Assistant] At first I thought it quite hopeless, but I have unquestionably seen for a single moment the face that I once knew so well.


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[Assistant] She had moved from the wall of the garret, very near to the bench on which he sat.


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[Assistant] There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labor. Not a word was spoken, not a sound was made. She stood like a spirit beside him, and he bent over his work. It happened at length.


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[Assistant] That he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand or his shoemaker's knife.


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[Assistant] It lay on that side of him which was not the side on which she stood He had taken it up


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[Assistant] The two spectators started forward, but she stayed them with a motion of her hand.


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[Assistant] And after a while his lips began to form some words, though no sound proceeded from them.


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[Assistant] By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and labored breathing, he was heard to say,


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[Assistant] With the tears streaming down her face, she put her two hands to her lips and kissed them to him.


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[Assistant] Are you? Not yet trusting the tones of her voice, she sat down on the bench beside him. He recoiled, but she laid her hand upon his arm.


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[Assistant] A strange thrill struck him when she did so and visibly passed over his frame. He laid the knife down softly as he sat staring at her. Her golden hair


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[Assistant] Which she wore in long curls had been hurriedly pushed aside and fell down over her neck. Advancing his hand by little and little, he took it up and looked at it.


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[Assistant] In the midst of the action, he went astray and with another deep sigh fell to work at his shoemaking. But not for long.


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[Assistant] Releasing his arm she laid her hand upon his shoulder.


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[Assistant] After looking doubtfully at it two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work


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[Assistant] Put his hand to his neck and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it.


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[Assistant] He opened this carefully on his knee and it contained a very little quantity of hair.


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[Assistant] She had laid her head upon my shoulder that night when I was summoned out. She had a fear of my going, though I had none. And when I was brought to the North Tower, they found these upon my sleeve. You will leave me them? They can never help me to escape in the body, though they may in the spirit.


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[Assistant] Those were the words I said. I remember them very well.


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[Assistant] He formed this speech with his lips many times before he could utter it. But when he did find spoken words for it, they came to him coherently, though slowly.


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[Assistant] Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.


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[Assistant] But she sat perfectly still in his grasp and only said in a low voice, I entreat you, good gentlemen, do not come near us, do not speak, do not move. Hark! he exclaimed. Whose voice was that? His hands released her as he uttered this cry.


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[Assistant] Hailing his softened tone and manner, his daughter fell upon her knees before him with her appealing hands upon his breast.


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[Assistant] Oh sir, at another time you shall know my name, and who my mother was, and who my father, and how I never knew their hard, hard history.


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[Assistant] But I cannot tell you at this time, and I cannot tell you here. All that I may tell you here and now is that I pray to you to touch me and to bless me. Kiss me, kiss me, oh my dear, my dear. His cold white head mingled with her radiant hair.


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[Assistant] I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is.


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[Assistant] If you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it.


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[Assistant] If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay in your breast when you were young and free, weep for it. Weep for it.


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[Assistant] When I hint to you of a home there is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a home, long desolate, while your poor heart pined away. Weep for it. Weep for it. She held him close around the neck and rocked him on her breast like a child.


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[Assistant] If when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you. Weep for it. Weep for it.


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[Assistant] And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honored father and implore his pardon for having never for his sakes driven all day and lain awake and wept all night,


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[Assistant] Because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me. Weep for it.


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[Assistant] Weep for it. Weep for her then, and for me. Good gentlemen, thank God.


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[Assistant] I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart. Oh see, thank God for us, thank God. He had sunk in her arms, and his face dropped on her breasts.


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[Assistant] A sight so touching, yet so terrible in the tremendous wrong and suffering which had gone before it, that the two beholders covered their faces.


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[Assistant] When the quiet of the gannet had been long undisturbed.


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[Assistant] And his heaving breast and shaken form had long yielded to the calm that must follow all storms, emblem to humanity of the rest and silence into which the storm called life must hush at last.


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[Assistant] They came forward to raise the father and daughter from the ground. He had gradually dropped to the floor and lay there in a lethargy worn out. She had nestled down with him that his head might lie upon her arm, and her hair, drooping over him, curtained him from the light. If, without disturbing him, she said,


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[Assistant] All could be arranged for our leaving Paris at once, so that from the very door he could be taken away. But consider, is he fit for the journey? asked Mr. Lorry. More fit for that, I think, than to remain in this city so dreadful to him. It is true, said Defarge, who was kneeling to look on and hear. More than that.


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[Assistant] Monsieur Manette is, for all reasons, best out of France. Say, shall I hire a carriage and post horses? That's business, said Mr. Lorry.


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[Assistant] Resuming on the shortest notice, his methodical manners, and if business is to be done, I had better do it. Then be so kind, urged Miss Manette, as to leave us here. You see how composed he has become and you cannot be afraid to leave him with me now. Why should you be?


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[Assistant] If you will lock the door to secure us from interruption, I do not doubt that you will find him when you come back as quiet as you leave him. In any case, I will take care of him until you return, and then we will remove him straight.


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[Assistant] Both Mr. Lorry and Defarge were rather disinclined to this course, and in favor of one of them remaining.


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[Assistant] But as there were not only carriage and horses to be seen to, but travelling papers, and as time pressed, for the day was drawing to an end,


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[Assistant] It came at last to their hastily dividing the business that was necessary to be done and hurrying away to do it. Then, as the darkness closed in, the daughter laid her head down on the hard ground close at her father's side and watched him.


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[Assistant] The darkness deepened and deepened and they both lay quiet until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall.


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[Assistant] Mr. Lorry and Monsieur Defarge had made all ready for the journey, and had brought with them, besides travelling cloaks and wrappers, bread and meat, wine, and hot coffee.


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[Assistant] Mr. Defarge put his provender and the lamp he carried on the shoemaker's bench. There was nothing else in the garret but a pallet bed, and he and Mr. Lorry roused the captive and assisted him to his feet.


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[Assistant] No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind in the scared, blank wonder of his face. Whether he knew what had happened, whether he recollected what they had said to him, whether he knew that he was free, were questions which no sagacity could have solved.


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[Assistant] They tried speaking to him, but he was so confused and so very slow to answer that they took fright at his bewilderment and agreed for the time to tamper with him no more.


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[Assistant] He had a wild, lost manner of occasionally clasping his head in his hands that had not been seen in him before.


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[Assistant] Yet he had some pleasure in the mere sound of his daughter's voice and invariably turned to it when she spoke.


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[Assistant] In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings that they gave him to wear.


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[Assistant] He readily responded to his daughters drawing her arm through his and took and kept her hand in both his own. They began to descend. Monsieur de Thage going first with the lamp. Mr. Lorry closing the little procession.


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[Assistant] They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped and stared at the roof and round at the walls.


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[Assistant] It evidently was for the strong fortress walls which had long encompassed him.


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[Assistant] On their reaching the courtyard, he instinctively altered his tread as being in expectation of a drawbridge.


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[Assistant] An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.


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[Assistant] Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame de Thage, who leaned against the doorpost, knitting, and saw nothing. The prisoner had got into a coach, and his daughter had followed him.


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[Assistant] When Mr. Lorry's feet were arrested on the step by his asking miserably,


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[Assistant] For his shoemaking tools and the unfinished shoes.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them and went knitting out of the lamplight through the courtyard. She quickly brought them down and handed them in.


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[Assistant] And immediately afterwards leaned against the door post, knitting, and saw nothing.


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[Assistant] Defarge got upon the box and gave the word to the barrier. The postilion cracked his whip.


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[Assistant] And they clattered away under the feeble over swinging lamps.


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[Assistant] Said Defarge getting down and taking him gravely apart.


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[Assistant] These are the papers of Monsieur inside with the white head. They were consigned to me, with him at the


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[Assistant] He dropped his voice, there was a flutter among the military lanterns, and one of them being handed into the coat by an army uniform, the eyes, connected with the arm, looked, not an every day or an every night look, at Monsieur with the white head. It is well, forward, from the uniform. Adieu, from Defarge.


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[Assistant] And so, under a short grove, a feebler and feebler over swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars.


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[Assistant] Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights, sun so remote from this little earth.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] All through the cold and restless interval until dawn.


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[Assistant] They once more whispered in the ears of Mr. Jarvis Lolley.


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[Assistant] Sitting opposite the buried man who had been dug out.


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[Assistant] And wondering what subtle powers were forever 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.


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[Assistant] Well, when I wrote Fahrenheit 451, I had no title originally. I wrote a short story called Burning Bright.


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[Assistant] About Book Burning in the Future. It was published in the magazine a couple of years back in 1948, I believe. And, uh, then I wrote a novella, which is called The Fireman, which was in Galaxy Magazine in February 1951. And then Ballantine came along and said, uh, can you make the novel longer? Can you double it?


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[Assistant] I said yes I can, because there's a lot I haven't said.


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[Assistant] So I wrote another 25,000 words, we had a 50,000 word novel, which is still quite short, but I had no title that I really cared about.


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[Assistant] And I called UCLA, the chemistry department, and I said, what temperature do books burn at? They didn't know, book paper. I called SC and they put me in the physics department.


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[Assistant] And he came on the phone and he said, oh, that's very interesting. He said, just a moment. So he went and checked some figures and he came back. He said, book paper catches a fire at 451 Fahrenheit.


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[Assistant] I said wonderful, I turned it around Fahrenheit 451 and I had my title. Now, wouldn't it be awful if we went back and discovered


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[Assistant] He had made a mistake, and it really wasn't that at all. It was 392. But it's too late now, and we've got the title.


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[Assistant] Because the McCarthy period hadn't begun. It was beginning to manifest itself.


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[Assistant] Because Harry Truman put together the Un-American Activities Committee. He had a lot to answer for because he didn't ride hurt on it enough. And it got out of hand.


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[Assistant] And there was another senator who was in charge, whose name is escaping at the moment.


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[Assistant] But when he retired, McCarthy took over a couple years later. So this was, book was written before McCarthy.


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[Assistant] But remembering Hitler's burning of the books in the streets of Berlin and rumors I had from Russia.


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[Assistant] How they were destroying books and authors there. The rumors came through and we knew that we were, that we had been affiliated


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[Assistant] With a villain, and still were, the, uh, uh, Berlin airlift was still ahead of us. And, uh, so when I sat down and, uh, wrote the book, it was also remembering the burning of the books in Alexandria, Egypt, 3,000 years before. There, I heard there were three burnings, two by accident and one on purpose. So when I thought of that, I'm such a library person.


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[Assistant] All of my life, the library has been that important to me.


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[Assistant] And the people that live in there, not books, but people who live in there. So all of my favorite authors have been ghosts that haunted me through my childhood and spoke to me at night. And my dream always was one day to inhabit the shelves with them.


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[Assistant] To lean against Al Frank Baum and the Oz books, uh, to be, uh, on the shelf above Ed Brown Poe.


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[Assistant] And way down below there is Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. These were not books, they were people. And so anyone that touched those people was an enemy to me. And it was only natural that someday I would write Fahrenheit 451.


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[Assistant] Turn the firemen around. In other words, instead of putting out fires, starting them. I can't remember the day.


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[Assistant] I suppose it was remembering visiting the firehouse as a child with my father. We used to go down to the beach, Lake Michigan, when I was a kid, but we always stopped at the firehouse on the way down because all the firemen were friends of my father. So I'd go in and pet the dalmatian, huh, and sit with the fireman and then head down to the beach. So the firehouse was part of my background and I suppose because of that,


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[Assistant] I got to thinking one day in the late forties.


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[Assistant] About the fact that we could prevent fires if we, if we put together buildings that were fireproof. And once that happened there would be no more fires.


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[Assistant] And then the next step was, well my god, the firemen are out of work. And the next step is, what do we do with them? And then I said, oh my god.


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[Assistant] We put them to work making fires, huh? Burning books. And that's when it happened. And it's one of the greatest ideas I ever had.


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[Assistant] The Origins of the Theatre. The first form of public amusement.


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[Assistant] Did not grow out of these recited heroic tales.


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[Assistant] The Greeks had always been fond of parades. Every year they held solemn processions in honor of Dionysus, the god of the wine. As everybody in Greece drank wine,


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[Assistant] And because the wine god was supposed to live in the vineyards, amidst a merry mob of satyrs, strange creatures who were half man and half goat,


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[Assistant] The Greek word for goat is tragos, and the Greek word for singer is oidos.


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[Assistant] The singer who meh-med, like a goat, therefore, was called a tragosoidos, or goat-singer. And it is this strange name which developed into the modern word tragedy, which means, in the theatrical sense, a piece with an unhappy ending, just as comedy,


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[Assistant] Which really means the singing of something comos, or gay, is the name given to a play which ends happily.


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[Assistant] But how, you will ask, did this noisy chorus of masqueraders, stamping around like wild goats, ever develop into the noble tragedies which have filled the theatres of the world for almost two thousand years?


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[Assistant] The singing chorus was very amusing in the beginning and attracted large crowds of spectators who stood along the side of the road and laughed.


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[Assistant] He waved his arms and gesticulated while he spoke, that is to say he acted, while the others merely stood by and sang.


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[Assistant] Henceforth every Dionysian procession had an acted scene, and very soon the acting was considered more important than the procession and the meh-meh-ing.


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[Assistant] The spectator sat upon wooden benches and faced a wide circle.


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[Assistant] Behind them there was a tent where they made up with large clay masks which hid their faces and which showed the spectators whether the actors were supposed to be happy and smiling, or unhappy and weeping.


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[Assistant] The Greek word for tent is skeina, and that is the reason why we talk of the scenery of the stage.


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[Assistant] When once the tragedy had become part of Greek life, the people took it very seriously and never went to the theater to give their minds a vacation.


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[Assistant] Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard.


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[Assistant] So very great is the improvement time has brought about in such habits that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman would seem in these days a ridiculous exaggeration.


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[Assistant] The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its bacchanalian propensities.


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[Assistant] Neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compiers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.


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[Assistant] A favorite at the Old Bailey and eke at the sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.


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[Assistant] Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favorite, specially to their longing arms.


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[Assistant] bursting out of the bed of wigs, like a great sunflower pushing its way at the sun from among a rank garden full of flaring companions.


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[Assistant] It had once been noted at the bar that while Mr. Stryver was a glib man and an unscrupulous and a ready and a bold, he had not that faculty of extracting the essence from a heap of statements, which is among the most striking and necessary of the advocate's accomplishments.


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[Assistant] But a remarkable improvement came upon him as to this.


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[Assistant] The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow.


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[Assistant] And however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.


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[Assistant] Sidney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally.


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[Assistant] What the two drank together between Hillary Turm and Mickelmas might have floated a king's ship.


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[Assistant] Stryver never had a case in hand anywhere, but Carton was there, with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the court.