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plans to send armed for"es to fig%t in t%e +meri"an "olonies. +s

arnay looks to a yo!ng lady and %er disting!is%ed fat%er a w%isper

r!s%es t%ro!g% t%e "o!rtroom spe"!lating on t%e identity of t%e two.

6vent!ally (r!n"%er dis"overs t%at t%ey will serve as witnesses

against t%e prisoner.

(%apter5 disappointments

The attorney general opens the session with remarkscondemning the young man as a traitor against England. Hereiterates the accusations against him and declares that he willproduce two unimpeachable witnesses, including the defendant'sown servant, to testify against the defendant. After finishing hisoration, he calls the first witness, John arsad, to the stand. !r.arsad recalls the attorney general's story almost verbatim, thenreceives "uestions from the defense. The defense attorney"uestions !r. arsad's character. !r. arsad admits he has beenin a debtor's prison and admits he has been kicked for cheatingat dice. However, he claims he did not cheat, and that he owesthe prisoner money, but that he has seen him with lists of names

of English soldiers #that the defendant planned to give to hostileforces$.

Having chinked away at this witnesses' credibility, the defensene%t "uestions&oger ly, !r. (arnay's former servant. !r. lytestifies that he volunteered to work as a servant for !r. (arnaystrictly out of charity but that he became suspicious of him soonafter, especially after seeing him present lists of names to )renchgentlemen. He admits under "uestioning that he had once stolena mustard pot from his master, but that it only turned out to be a

plated one #he denied ever having been suspected of stealing asilver tea pot$.

*e%t, the attorney general calls !r. +orry to the stand. He askshim if he had had occasion to travel with the (over mail somefive years ago, and !r. +orry states that he did. He asks him ifone of the men traveling with him was the prisoner, and !r.
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+orry replies that he cannot say, as the travelers were bundledup, and it was dark. !r. +orry testifies that he has seen theprisoner before, though he says that when he was returningfrom )rance on that same trip, the prisoner came on board theship sometime around midnight, and that he was the only personwho boarded the ship at that time. He testifies that he, !r. +orry,was traveling with two other passengers, a gentleman and alady, and that he did not converse with the prisoner, as he wastired.

The attorney general then calls !iss !anetteto the stand. Theattorney asks her if she has ever seen him before, and shereplies that she has. -ver the course of "uestioning, !iss!anette reveals that she conversed at length with the prisoner,

and that he helped her father, who was in a state of weak health,and that he was e%ceedingly kind to them. he also reveals thathe had come on board with two )rench gentlemen, and that theyhad conferred together until the )renchmen had to board theirboat, and that the men were passing around sheets of paper andconversing, and that they stood whispering about the papers.he then e%claims with distress that she hopes her testimony willnot do the man harm. he adds that the prisoner told her he wastraveling on business of a very delicate nature, and that thebusiness could get people into trouble, and so he was traveling

under an assumed name. he adds that he told her the businessmight take him at intervals between England and )rance for longperiods to come. The attorney asks her if the man said anythingabout America, and she replies that the prisoner told her how the"uarrel came about, and that it was a wrong and foolish one onEngland's part as far as he could determine. He added /okinglythat 0eorge 1ashington might gain as great a name in history as0eorge the Third. he insists, however, that he meant this onlyas a /oke.

*e%t, the attorney calls (r. !anetteto the stand and asks him ifhe has seen the prisoner before. He says that he has, when theman was called to his lodgings in +ondon. The attorney then asksif he can identify him as the man who was aboard the ship in)rance, and (r. !anette replies that he can do neither, as he had

/ust been released from prison at the time and had lost some ofhis memory.
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*e%t, the attorney general calls a witness to attempt to provethat the prisoner had traveled with the (over mail, then e%itedthe group and traveled somewhere else to gather information. Awitness is called to state that the prisoner had been spotted at aparticular locale at a particular time #a fact that would lendcredence to the prosecution's argument that the prisoner wasindeed collecting information$. The defense cross2e%amines thewitness with little result, e%cept to establish that the witness hasnever seen the prisoner on any other occasion. Just then, thecounsel asks the witness if he is certain that the man he saw isthe prisoner, and that he could not possibly have seen someoneelse instead. The witness replies that he is certain he saw theprisoner and no one else. The attorney then points to anotherman in the courtroom and asks the man to remove his wig. 1hen

the man removes it, the courtroom gasps, as he bears asurprising resemblance to the prisoner. The result is surprisingenough to weaken the witness' testimony.

hapter 34 ongratulatory

(r. !anette, +ucie, !r. +orry, the solicitor for the defense,and !r. tryverall congratulate (arnay on his escape fromdeath. (r. !anette's face is clouded over by the negativeemotions caused by being cross2e%amined about being

imprisoned. The !anettes depart in a hackney2coach, and aslightly drunk !r. arton asks to be allowed to speak to !r.(arnay. They dine in a tavern, and !r. arton proposes a toastto !iss !anette. After (arnay leaves, !r. arton looks at himselfin a mirror and reflects that he does not like (arnay because hetoo much resembles what arton himself could have been, hadarton not been so dissolute. He hates (arnay for inspiring !iss!anette to look at him with such compassion.

hapter45 /akal

!r. tryver is prone to alcoholism, and he is a drinkingcompanion of !r. arton's22they had been fellow students in6aris. !r. tryver, despite all of his capacity to push himselfahead, became a much more successful lawyer when !r. artonbegan working on and helping summari7e his documents for him.Thus arton became tryver's /ackal. 1hen tryver talks abouthow pretty !iss !anette is, arton denies it, claiming she is
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nothing but a blond 8doll.8 arton leaves tryver's house andreturns to his own, crying himself to sleep. He is haunted by thehonorable glories that once were available to him but are nowout of his reach.

A Tale of Two Cities Book 2, Chapter 6

!r. +orry drops in for a visit with (r. !anette and +ucie in thedoctor's "uaint lodgings on a "uiet corner in oho. He chatswith !iss 6ross, the red2haired woman who rushed to +ucie's aidin the hotel five years ago. !iss 6ross tells him she constantlyhas to attend to the 8hundreds8 of visitors dropping by to askabout or visit with +ucie #she calls +ucie her 8+adybird8$, which

she claims only began to happen after (r. !anette reentered herlife. (r. !anette and +ucie arrive, and they all sit down to dinner.After the meal, they retire to the back yard to sit under the planetree, and (arnay and arton drop by to visit. !r. +orry notes tohimself with amusement that the 8hundreds of people8 !iss 6rosspromised were nowhere to be found. After a time, they return tothe house, and rain begins to fall. They notice the sound offootsteps as people outside begin to rush toward shelter. Thesounds spark a philosophical discussion. They sit, listening to therain and thunderstorm, and contemplate +ucie's thought. After a

time, !r. +orry leaves, escorted by Jerry. He remarks to Jerry,8'1hat a night it has been9 Almost a night, Jerry, to bring thedead out of their graves.'8 ook :, hapter ;, pg.


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recklessly through the 6aris streets, the carriage accidentally

runs over a child. The !ar"uis shows no remorse for the

child's death, and when 0aspard, the child's grief2stricken

father, approaches the carriage, the !ar"uis throws him acoin. (efarge emerges from the crowd to comfort 0aspard,

and the !ar"uis throws him a coin as well. The carriage

begins to move on, and one of the peasants throws a coin

back into the carriage. Angered, the !ar"uis threatens the

crowd and then drives away.

Summary Ch8

As the !ar"uis travels from 6aris to the Evr>monde country

estate, he rides through a landscape of sparse and withered

crops. 1hen his carriage stops in a village near his home,

the !ar"uis "uestions a road2mender who claims he saw a

man riding under the carriage, but the man is no longer

there. Having alerted the village official, 0abelle, to be onthe lookout for the mystery man, the !ar"uis drives on.

efore he can reach his estate, however, a grief2stricken

woman stops him at the graveyard and begs him for a

marker for the grave of her dead husband. ?gnoring her

pleas, the !ar"uis continues on to his chateau. 1hen he

arrives, he asks if 8!onsieur harles8has arrived from

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hapter @4 The 0orgon's Head

The chateau is all stone, as if a 0orgon's head had looked atit. !onseigneur sits down to dinner after complaining thathis nephew has not yet arrived.1hen harles (arnay doesarrive, !onseigneur observes that he has taken a long timecoming from +ondon. (arnay accuses !onseigneur of aneffort to have him imprisoned in )rance with a letter decachet. !onseigneur does not deny this, but he complainsabout the inaccessibility of such measures and the privilegesthat the aristocracy has lost. He considers repression to bethe only effective and lasting policy (arnay replies thattheir family has done wrong and will pay the conse"uences.(arnay renounces his property and )rance. !onseigneurmocks him for having not been more successful in England,then mentions the doctor and his daughter but ominouslyrefuses to say more.

-wls howl through the night, and when the sun rises itsslanting angle makes the chateau fountain seem full ofblood. The villagers wake up first to start their toil, and theoccupants of the chateau awake later, but when they doarise, they engage in fren7ied activity. !onseigneur was

murdered during the night. There is a knife through hisheart, containing a piece of paper on which it is written48(rive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jac"ues.8

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!anette's reception of (arnay, and this struggle is evident inhis e%pression of dread, and although he gives his blessingto (arnay, something is not "uite right. (arnay tells thedoctor that he is using an assumed name and tries to tell

him why he is in England and what his real name is, but thedoctor stops him. He says that if harles does marry +ucie,he should tell him these secrets on the marriage morning.1hen +ucie returns to the house that night, she hears himworking on his shoemaking again for the first time since6aris and is very distressed. he knocks on his door and hestops.

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(espite the fact that he is at Tellson's and must actproperly, !r. +orry grows angry at this disparagement of+ucie. !r. +orry suggests that because it might be painful fortryver, the doctor, and +ucie if the former were to make an

unwelcome suit, perhaps +orry himself should go to ohoand feel out the sub/ect. !r. tryver agrees.

1hen !r. +orry arrives at tryver's house later that eveningwith a confirmation that a proposal would be unwelcome, hegets a strange response from the would2be suitor. tryverpretends to have forgotten the sub/ect. 1hen he isreminded, he professes to be sorry for both the doctor and!r. +orry, insinuating that +ucie has gotten herself intotrouble and is no longer fit to be engaged. +orry is sosurprised that he merely leaves.

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The mender of roads who spotted the man under the

!ar"uis t. Evr>monde's carriage accompanies (efarge to

the wine2shop. ?n the garret where (octor Ale%andre!anettestayed, (efarge and Jac"ues -ne, Two, and Three

listen to the road2mender describe what happened to

0aspard, the man who killed the !ar"uis. 0aspard, who

murdered the !ar"uis for running down his child, went into

hiding for nearly a year after the killing. The )rench

authorities recently captured, /ailed, and hanged him, and

left his corpse dangling by the village fountain, with his

shadow poisoning the atmosphere of the town.

!onsieur and !adame (efarge later take the road2mender

to Bersailles, where the splendor of the court da77les him.

aught up in the emotion of the e%perience, the road2

mender cheers the Cing, Dueen, and other nobles. The

(efarges commend his behavior, feeling that it will fuel the

courtiers' arrogance and ignorance of the revolutionarymovement. Additionally, the (efarges believe that the sight

of such lu%ury and finery will supply the road2mender with a

focus for his hatred and violence in the future.
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