A Tale of Two Cities

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Чарльз Диккенс. A Tale of Two Cities

Book the First – Recalled to Life

I. The Period

II. The Mail

III. The Night Shadows

IV. The Preparation

V. The Wine-shop

VI. The Shoemaker

Book the Second – the Golden Thread

I. Five Years Later

II. A Sight

III. A Disappointment

IV. Congratulatory

V. The Jackal

VI. Hundreds of People

VII. Monseigneur in Town

VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

IX. The Gorgon’s Head

X. Two Promises

XI. A Companion Picture

XII. The Fellow of Delicacy

XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy

XIV. The Honest Tradesman

XV. Knitting

XVI. Still Knitting

XVII. One Night

XVIII. Nine Days

XIX. An Opinion

XX. A Plea

XXI. Echoing Footsteps

XXII. The Sea Still Rises

XXIII. Fire Rises

XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

Book the Third – the Track of a Storm

I. In Secret

II. The Grindstone

III. The Shadow

IV. Calm in Storm

V. The Wood-Sawyer

VI. Triumph

VII. A Knock at the Door

VIII. A Hand at Cards

IX. The Game Made

X. The Substance of the Shadow

XI. Dusk

XII. Darkness

XIII. Fifty-two

XIV. The Knitting Done

XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

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we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

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Mr. Lorry reddened as if he were conscious of having debated the point in his mind, and Mr. Carton made his way to the outside of the bar. The way out of court lay in that direction, and Jerry followed him, all eyes, ears, and spikes.

“Mr. Darnay!”

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