日期：2023-10-16 STILL KNITTING Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 KNITTING There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine- shop of Monsieur Defarge. As early as six oclock in the morning, sallow faces peeping through its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over measures of wine. Monsieu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE HONEST TRADESMAN To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in Fleet Street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who could sit upon anything in Fleet Street... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE FELLOW OF NO DELICACY If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he cared to talk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE FELLOW OF DELICACY Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctors daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental debating of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 A COMPANION PICTURE Sydney, said Mr. Stryver, on that selfsame night, or morning, to his jackal; mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you, Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 TWO PROMISES More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he would have been a Professor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 9 The Gorgons Head IT was a heavy mass of building, that ch?ateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone court-yard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony business alto... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 8 Monseigneur in the Country A BEAUTIFUL landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On ina... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 7 Monseigneur in Town MONSEIGNEUR, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 6 Hundreds of People THE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried it,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 5 The Jackal THOSE were drinking days, and moot men drank hard. 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... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 4 Congratulatory FROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the def... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 3 A Disappointment MR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the public enemy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 2 A Sight `YOU know the Old Bailey well, no doubt? said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger. `Ye-es, sir, returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. `I do know the Bailey. `Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry. `I know Mr. Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 BOOK THE SECOND THE GOLDEN THREAD CHAPTER I Five Years Later TELLSONS Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 6 The Shoemaker `GOOD DAY! said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at he white head that bent low over the shoemaking. It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance: `Good day! `You a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 5 The Wine-shop A LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 4 The Preparation WHEN the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his custom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 3 The Night Shadows Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clus... 阅读全文>>