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788	98_book_2,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Still Knitting A policeman tells Monsieur Defarge that there may be an English spy stationed in Saint Antoine named John Barsad, supplying a physical description of him. They return to the shop and Madame Defarge counts their money. Monsieur Defarge shows some signs of fatigue, and Madame Defarge encourages him, saying...	[ "XVI. Still Knitting", "Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the\nbosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the\ndarkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by\nthe wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where\nthe chateau ...
789	98_book_2,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One Night Lucie's father assures her that her relationship with Charles Darnay will not cause divisions between them. He assures her that by enriching her own life she will enrich his. He mentions his imprisonment for the first time, and he tells about how he used to imagine her remembering her father. She cries and sa...	[ "XVII. One Night", "Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in\nSoho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat\nunder the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder\nradiance over great London, than on that night when it found them still\nseated u...
790	98_book_2,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nine Days Everyone is happy on the wedding day, with the exception of Miss Pross, who still thinks that her brother, Solomon, should have been the groom. Mr. Lorry flirts with Miss Pross, reflecting that perhaps he made a mistake by being a bachelor. Charles Darnay reveals his identity to Doctor Manette, who looks quit...	[ "XVIII. Nine Days", "The marriage-day was shining brightly, and they were ready outside the\nclosed door of the Doctor's room, where he was speaking with Charles\nDarnay. They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr.\nLorry, and Miss Pross--to whom the event, through a gradual process of\nreconcilemen...
791	98_book_2,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	An Opinion On the tenth morning, Mr. Lorry finds Doctor Manette behaving normally again. Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross decide to proceed as if nothing had happened, but Mr. Lorry presents the Doctor's own case to him as if it were someone else. The Doctor realizes that he has been shoemaking by looking at his own blackened ...	[ "XIX. An Opinion", "Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the\ntenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun\ninto the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark\nnight.", "He rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he doubted, when he ...
792	98_book_2,_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Plea When the Darnays return from their honeymoon, the first person to greet them is Sydney Carton. He takes Charles aside and asks him to forget the fact that he ever said that he didn't like him. Charles assures him that it was enough that Sydney saved his life at the trial, and he gives Carton the privilege of com...	[ "XX. A Plea", "When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to\noffer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home\nmany hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or\nin looks, or in manner; but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity\nabout ...
793	98_book_2,_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Echoing Footsteps Lucie grows older and continues to listen to the footsteps echoing around the house. She has an angelic baby boy who dies as a child, and she has a girl whom she names Lucie. Carton continues to hold a special and privileged place in the family. Stryver marries a wealthy widow with three children, off...	[ "XXI. Echoing Footsteps", "A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where\nthe Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound\nher husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and\ncompanion, in a life of quiet bliss, Lucie sat in the still house in\nthe tr...
794	98_book_2,_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Sea Still Rises A week after the storming of the Bastille, Madame Defarge is having a conversation with the Vengeance. Defarge bursts into the store with the news that the mob has found an aristocrat named Foulon, who told starving peasants that they should eat grass. The Defarges and the Vengeance immediately crea...	[ "XXII. The Sea Still Rises", "Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften\nhis modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with\nthe relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame\nDefarge sat at her counter, as usual, presiding over the customers.\nMad...
795	98_book_2,_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Fire Rises Saint Antoine is a changed place without Monseigneur, as France is a changed place without people of his class. Although he was source of oppression, he was also a source of pride and a symbol of luxury. Two "Jacques" figures greet each other in the countryside. One explains that he has been walking for two ...	[ "XXIII. Fire Rises", "There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where\nthe mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the\nhighway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his\npoor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body together. The prison on the\ncrag ...
796	98_book_2,_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Three more years of revolution in France go by. Monseigneur's class is dying out, and the monarchy no longer exists. Because Frenchmen come immediately to Tellson's upon arriving in London to discuss financial issues, it has become a center of intelligence about the revolution. Charles Darna...	[ "XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock", "In such risings of fire and risings of sea--the firm earth shaken by\nthe rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the\nflow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on\nthe shore--three years of tempest were consumed. Three more b...
797	98_book_3,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Secret The disorganization of France makes Darnay's trip long, and he is questioned at every step. When he nears Paris, he is woken in the middle of the night and told he is to be sent to Paris with an escort, which he is forced to accept and pay for. This escort is Monsieur Defarge. When they enter the town of Beau...	[ "I. In Secret", "The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from\nEngland in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and\nninety-two. More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad\nhorses, he would have encountered to delay him, though the fallen and\nunfortunate King of Fran...
798	98_book_3,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Grindstone Mr. Lorry occupies rooms in Tellson's Bank in Paris, preoccupied with the fact that the noblemen will not live to collect their money. He nervously hears the sounds of conflict on the streets and praises God that no one he loves is in Paris, at which point Doctor Manette and Lucie rush into his room with...	[ "II. The Grindstone", "Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was\nin a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from\nthe street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to\na great nobleman who had lived in it until he made a flight from the\ntroubles...
799	98_book_3,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Shadow Mr. Lorry worries that he is endangering Tellson's Bank by housing the wife of an emigrant prisoner, Lucie, in their lodgings. After shrewdly deciding not to ask Defarge for advice for fear that he might be wrapped up in the revolution, he finds Lucie, her daughter, the Doctor, and Miss Pross a suitable apar...	[ "III. The Shadow", "One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr.\nLorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to\nimperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under\nthe Bank roof. His own possessions, safety, life, he would have hazarded\nf...
800	98_book_3,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Calm in Storm Doctor Manette does not return for four days, during which time 1,100 prisoners are killed. Manette announced himself as having been a prisoner in the Bastille without trial, a fact which Monsieur Defarge reinforces, popularizing the Doctor immensely. He almost secured Darnay's immediate release, but the ...	[ "IV. Calm in Storm", "Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his\nabsence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be\nkept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that\nnot until long afterwards, when France and she were far apart, did she\nkn...
801	98_book_3,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Wood-Sawyer Lucie is unsure for one year and three months whether her husband has been alive or dead. She establishes a routine in their new home, and she keeps herself hopeful by setting aside a chair or books for her husband and otherwise behaving as if he lived there, too. Her father informs her that there is a ...	[ "V. The Wood-Sawyer", "One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never\nsure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her\nhusband's head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the\ntumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely girls; bright\nwomen, brown-...
802	98_book_3,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Triumph Charles Darnay is on a list of twenty-three people to be tried the following day. He says goodbye to his friends in prison. The next morning, he is called to the Tribunal, where it seems that criminals are trying honest men. The Defarges are sitting in the front row. Darnay is charged with being an emigrant, an...	[ "VI. Triumph", "The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined\nJury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were\nread out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The\nstandard gaoler-joke was, \"Come out and listen to the Evening Paper, you\ninside there...
803	98_book_3,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Knock at the Door Darnay has had to pay dearly for his food while he was in prison, so the household began to live very frugally. Even so, Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher, who usually went food shopping, had to shop at different stores to keep from raising suspicion or envy of their relative wealth. Before they go shop...	[ "VII. A Knock at the Door", "\"I have saved him.\" It was not another of the dreams in which he had\noften come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a\nvague but heavy fear was upon her.", "All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately\nrevengeful and fitful, the i...
804	98_book_3,_chapters_8-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A Hand at Cards Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher continue shopping, unaware that Darnay has been arrested again. They coincidentally enter the Defarges' shop looking to purchase wine. Miss Pross sees a man in the shop and screams, because she recognizes him as her brother, Solomon Pross, who is now an officer of the Frenc...	[ "VIII. A Hand at Cards", "Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her\nway along the narrow streets and crossed the river by the bridge of the\nPont-Neuf, reckoning in her mind the number of indispensable purchases\nshe had to make. Mr. Cruncher, with the basket, walked at her side. T...
767	98_book_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	and all, but we just have to quote this opening for you. After all, it's one of the most well-known opening lines in English literature. Here goes: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ." The sentence goes on for awhile, but you get the general pi...	[ "I. The Period", "It was the best of times,\nit was the worst of times,\nit was the age of wisdom,\nit was the age of foolishness,\nit was the epoch of belief,\nit was the epoch of incredulity,\nit was the season of Light,\nit was the season of Darkness,\nit was the spring of hope,\nit was the winter of despair,\...
768	98_book_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Our friendly narrator sets the scene: it's a Friday night in November. We're on the Dover road. This should spark some bells for anyone who spent the summer traveling around Europe. Long, long ago, in the years before the Chunnel was built, people who wanted to travel to France took a boat from Dover to Calais. Based o...	[ "II. The Mail", "It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November,\nbefore the first of the persons with whom this history has business.\nThe Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up\nShooter's Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail,\nas the rest o...
769	98_book_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Let's all start with some philosophical reflections, shall we? If you really think about it, do you actually know the people around you? Do you really? If not, where does that leave you? Sad and lonely? Exactly. Our narrator starts out this chapter with some cheerful reflections. You don't know the people you love. Not...	[ "III. The Night Shadows", "A 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 I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every...
770	98_book_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry finally arrives in Dover. He makes sure that there's a boat that's bound for Calais and leaving the next morning, and then he heads to the inn. As he comes down from his room for dinner, the landlady and the surrounding guests observe him: Mr. Lorry is a nice, neatly-dressed little man of around sixty years. ...	[ "IV. The Preparation", "When the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon,\nthe head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his\ncustom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey\nfrom London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous...
771	98_book_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	We flash to Paris: in front of a wine-shop, a great big ol' barrel of wine has fallen and broken open. It's like the entire street won the lottery. Everyone dives into the road, heedless of the dirt or of traffic. They soak up wine with buckets and glasses and their hands and their shirts. Everything quickly becomes br...	[ "V. The Wine-shop", "A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The\naccident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled\nout with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just\noutside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.", "All the peo...
772	98_book_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Defarge greets the white-haired shoemaker; he responds vaguely. The very voice of Dr. Manette seems to have shriveled inside of him. The lesson of this chapter, in case you haven't guessed, is that prison is a very, very unhappy place. Don't go there. We're not kidding. Just look at Dr. Manette. Defarge asks the doctor...	[ "VI. The Shoemaker", "\"Good day!\" said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that\nbent low over the shoemaking.", "It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the\nsalutation, as if it were at a distance:", "\"Good day!\"", "\"You are still hard at work, I see?\"", "After...
773	98_book_2,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	First things first: it's 1780. That's five years after the first section . Tellson's Bank is ugly, old, small, dirty, and in all other ways not a nice place to be. The funny thing is that it's also the most respected bank in England. In fact, all of its partners revel in the fact that it's small, ugly, old, and dirty. ...	[ "I. Five Years Later", "Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the\nyear one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very\ndark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place,\nmoreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were\nproud of its ...
774	98_book_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jerry Cruncher heads into the bank to figure out what his assignment for the day will be. An old bank clerk sends him to the courts with a note for Mr. Lorry. Apparently, Mr. Lorry just wants Jerry to hang around as a messenger for him at the court. Interested in the prospect of some excitement at the court, Jerry asks...	[ "II. A Sight", "\"You know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?\" said one of the oldest of\nclerks to Jerry the messenger.", "\"Ye-es, sir,\" returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. \"I _do_\nknow the Bailey.\"", "\"Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry.\"", "\"I know Mr. Lorry, sir, much better than I know t...
775	98_book_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dickens cuts right to the heart of the action: Mr. Attorney-General, the head of the state's case against Charles Darnay, is in the middle of his argument. We know that he's in the middle of the argument because every sentence in his argument begins with "that." In other words, we're not exactly hearing him speak. We'r...	[ "III. A Disappointment", "Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before\nthem, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which\nclaimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the\npublic enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or\neven o...
776	98_book_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Lucie and her father step out of the courtroom, our narrator takes some time to catch us up on their lives. Dr. Manette is looking worlds better. Our narrator is pretty sure that this is all Lucie's doing: she's brought him back to life. Everyone congratulates everyone else on Darnay's release. Mr. Stryver, Darnay's...	[ "IV. Congratulatory", "From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the\nhuman stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when\nDoctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor\nfor the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr.\nCh...
777	98_book_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Folks drank a lot in those days. Unsurprisingly, Mr. Stryver drinks a lot. So does Carton. Here's the difference, though: when Stryver gets drunk, he becomes worthless. Come to think of it, Stryver's often worthless. Carton, on the other hand, can down a few and still be on top of his game. For reasons that no one can ...	[ "V. The Jackal", "Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is\nthe improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate\nstatement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow\nin the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a\nperfect ge...
778	98_book_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Manette and Lucie live in a quiet little corner of Soho. Back in the late-1700s, Soho wasn't the center of London. Nope, it was a nice, quiet spot of country. On Sunday afternoons, Mr. Lorry walks from the center of town out toward Soho. Everything there seems sunny and happy and all-around peachy keen. It's just l...	[ "VI. Hundreds of People", "The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not\nfar from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the\nwaves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried\nit, as to the public interest and memory, far out to sea, Mr. Jarvis...
779	98_book_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	We're back in France. Getting whiplash yet? Just wait... Our narrator describes the way that Monseigneur, a member of the French aristocracy, makes his hot chocolate in the morning. Actually, Monseigneur would never dream of making his own chocolate. He has servants to do that for him. Four servants, to be precise. Moc...	[ "VII. Monseigneur in Town", "Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his\nfortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in\nhis inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to\nthe crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without. Monseigneur\nwa...
780	98_book_2,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Marquis' carriage heads out into the country. As he drives, our narrator gives us a description of the land. It's parched and almost dead. All the crops that can be wrung out of the land have been grown and are slowly dying--like the poor people who farm them. Heading into the village, the carriage pauses. Our narr...	[ "VIII. Monseigneur in the Country", "A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.\nPatches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas\nand beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On\ninanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a pr...
781	98_book_2,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chateau of the Marquis is a pretty great place. "Chateau," by the way, is a French word for an estate or manor house of the nobility. This particular chateau seems very stony. It's got stone walls and stone battlements and stone lions on top of the stone battlements. The Marquis asks if his nephew has arrived. He h...	[ "IX. The Gorgon's Head", "It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis,\nwith a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of\nstaircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony\nbusiness altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and\nstone ...
782	98_book_2,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Back in England, Charles Darnay, ex-French aristocrat, is making a decent living as a tutor. What does he teach? French, of course. Everything's coming up roses for him. Sure, it's not as lucrative as a decades-old title, but he's making honest pay for an honest day's work. Also, he's madly in love with Lucie. That is ...	[ "X. Two Promises", "More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles\nDarnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French\nlanguage who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he\nwould have been a Professor; in that age, he was a Tutor. He read with\nyoung men ...
783	98_book_2,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's late at night. Sydney Carton is working. Stryver is drinking. He's so happy about drinking, in fact, that he asks Carton to make another bowl of punch for the two of them. He has news. Stryver, it seems, has decided to marry. Carton knows Stryver pretty well. He asks if the woman has money. Stryver takes Carton to...	[ "XI. A Companion Picture", "\"Sydney,\" said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his\njackal; \"mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you.\"", "Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before,\nand the night before that, and a good many nights in succession...
784	98_book_2,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Stryver's decided to bestow his magnanimous offer on Lucie. We want to vomit just thinking of it. He offers to take her out--twice. Unaccountably, she refuses. Not to worry, though. Stryver's sure that he's going to win her over. He's on his way to Soho to visit Dr. Manette when he happens to walk by Tellson's. Sin...	[ "XII. The Fellow of Delicacy", "Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good\nfortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known\nto her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental\ndebating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be a...
785	98_book_2,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sydney Carton's not exactly a man with a lot of charm. Any charm he does have, however, he never displays when he goes to visit the Manettes. Today, for some reason, his feet seem to find their way to the Manettes' house of their own accord. He finds Lucie there alone. When she sees him, she immediately notices that he...	[ "XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy", "If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the\nhouse of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year,\nand had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he\ncared to talk, he talked well; but, the cloud of caring for nothi...
786	98_book_2,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jerry and his son are sitting outside Tellson's Bank late one afternoon. All of a sudden, a small crowd of people pass by the bank. Jerry sternly informs his son that what they're about to see is "a buryin'." In other words, the crowd is a funeral procession. Young Jerry's pretty psyched about the prospect of a little ...	[ "XIV. The Honest Tradesman", "To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in\nFleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and\nvariety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who could sit\nupon anything in Fleet-street during the busy hours of the day, and\nnot be dazed ...
787	98_book_2,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Folks are coming into the Defarges' wine-shop as early as six in the morning today. Our narrator reflects that it can't be because of the wine . There must be something else going on. In fact, there is. Monsieur Defarge walks into his shop, where everyone is drinking quietly. Once he greets his customers, however, the ...	[ "XV. Knitting", "There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine-shop of Monsieur\nDefarge. As early as six o'clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping\nthrough its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over\nmeasures of wine. Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best\nof times,...
788	98_book_2,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Defarge and her husband return to their shop after the procession. Meanwhile, the mender of roads makes his way back into the country. The country folk seem to have changed as a result of the hanging in the village. Their faces are harder; their eyes have become full of vengeance. Sounds to us like a storm's a-b...	[ "XVI. Still Knitting", "Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the\nbosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the\ndarkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by\nthe wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where\nthe chateau ...
789	98_book_2,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	London. The night before Lucie's wedding. Lucie sits by her father's side underneath a tree in their yard. She's very, very happy. She worries, however, that her father will be made unhappy by her upcoming marriage. Asking to be reassured that nothing will be changed by her marriage, she begs her father to tell her if ...	[ "XVII. One Night", "Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in\nSoho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat\nunder the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder\nradiance over great London, than on that night when it found them still\nseated u...
790	98_book_2,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's the day of the wedding. Everyone is ready to head to the church. Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross chat amicably together. By now, they're actually pretty good friends. Darnay is in the doctor's room, having a last-minute discussion before the wedding. Suddenly, the doctor emerges from his room. He's white as a sheet. Noth...	[ "XVIII. Nine Days", "The marriage-day was shining brightly, and they were ready outside the\nclosed door of the Doctor's room, where he was speaking with Charles\nDarnay. They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr.\nLorry, and Miss Pross--to whom the event, through a gradual process of\nreconcilemen...
791	98_book_2,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's the tenth day after Lucie's wedding. Mr. Lorry enters the doctor's bedroom and finds the doctor sitting by his window, reading. He's a bit pale, sure, but otherwise he seems to be completely back to normal. The change is so drastic, in fact, that Mr. Lorry begins to doubt his own eyes. When Miss Pross arrives, she...	[ "XIX. An Opinion", "Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the\ntenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun\ninto the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark\nnight.", "He rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he doubted, when he ...
792	98_book_2,_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first person to visit Lucie and Darnay after they get married is Sydney Carton. Are you really surprised? Darnay is. He's even more surprised when Carton makes a rather strange request: he wants to be Darnay's friend. There's not exactly a ton of love lost between the two men, remember? Nonetheless, Carton wants to...	[ "XX. A Plea", "When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to\noffer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home\nmany hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or\nin looks, or in manner; but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity\nabout ...
793	98_book_2,_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The years pass. Lucie has a baby girl. She's also named Lucie. She also has a small baby boy who dies when he's just a few years old. Surprisingly, Sydney Carton has become a much-loved uncle to the children. His footsteps continually sound on the Manettes' doorstep. Even more frequently, they're heard pacing in the st...	[ "XXI. Echoing Footsteps", "A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where\nthe Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound\nher husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and\ncompanion, in a life of quiet bliss, Lucie sat in the still house in\nthe tr...
794	98_book_2,_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A week after the Storming of the Bastille, Madame Defarge sits at the counter of her shop. Another woman, the short, plump wife of the grocer, sits with her. In the past week, this woman has taken on a new name: she's now called "The Vengeance." We're guessing it's not because she's all that friendly. Defarge enters th...	[ "XXII. The Sea Still Rises", "Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften\nhis modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with\nthe relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame\nDefarge sat at her counter, as usual, presiding over the customers.\nMad...
795	98_book_2,_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	We're back in the French countryside. It's just about as dismal as when we left it: there's no food, the crops are withered, and the people are in about the same condition as the crops. Despite this, things seem to have changed somehow. For years, Monseigneur has squeezed and starved the poor of the village. Now, howev...	[ "XXIII. Fire Rises", "There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where\nthe mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the\nhighway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his\npoor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body together. The prison on the\ncrag ...
796	98_book_2,_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's August, 1792. Monseigneur, that amazing man who stands in for all French aristocrats, has decided that France is not the safest place to be hanging out. He's now fleeing across the ocean, headed for countries that are a bit more friendly than his own. But we're not concerned with Monseigneur right now. We're back ...	[ "XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock", "In such risings of fire and risings of sea--the firm earth shaken by\nthe rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the\nflow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on\nthe shore--three years of tempest were consumed. Three more b...
797	98_book_3,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In 1792, traveling through France is pretty slow going. Okay: traveling in the 1700s was pretty slow all the time. We know that. But now it's extra slow. Even slower than before. Sloooooooow. Darnay, of course, happens to be traveling in 1792. He's not getting too far. Everywhere he goes, he's stopped. People have to c...	[ "I. In Secret", "The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from\nEngland in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and\nninety-two. More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad\nhorses, he would have encountered to delay him, though the fallen and\nunfortunate King of Fran...
798	98_book_3,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tellson's has set up temporary offices in the abandoned palace of an aristocrat. From this rather inauspicious location, Mr. Lorry has been making lots and lots of financial decisions. Riches have to be preserved , papers have to be saved, even more papers have to be burned...all in all, he's been a pretty busy guy. Fo...	[ "II. The Grindstone", "Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was\nin a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from\nthe street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to\na great nobleman who had lived in it until he made a flight from the\ntroubles...
799	98_book_3,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's now noon of the next day. The doctor still hasn't returned. Mr. Lorry wants to be worried about the Manettes, but bank business must come first. At the moment, bank business also involves making sure that Lucie and her child aren't hanging out in the bank. If worse comes to worst, their presence could make trouble...	[ "III. The Shadow", "One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr.\nLorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to\nimperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under\nthe Bank roof. His own possessions, safety, life, he would have hazarded\nf...
800	98_book_3,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Manette doesn't return for four days. When he finally makes it back to the house, he tells Lucie a condensed version of what he's seen. Mr. Lorry, however, gets the full story: Dr. Manette went to the Tribunal that tries all the prisoners. He announced himself as a former prisoner of the Bastille, and was awarded s...	[ "IV. Calm in Storm", "Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his\nabsence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be\nkept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that\nnot until long afterwards, when France and she were far apart, did she\nkn...
801	98_book_3,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A year passes. Then another three months pass. Nothing's changed. Lucie, in particular, seems to have weathered the calamity pretty well. She's not wearing bright, fancy clothes, sure, but otherwise she's cheerful. Only occasionally does her grief break through. Then she cries on her father's shoulder all night. He rem...	[ "V. The Wood-Sawyer", "One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never\nsure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her\nhusband's head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the\ntumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely girls; bright\nwomen, brown-...
802	98_book_3,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's the morning of Darnay's trial. Five judges sit at the Tribunal bench. The audience hall is packed with people here to see a show. One woman sits in the front row, knitting. Beside her, Darnay sees Defarge. Dr. Manette sits right beneath the president of the Tribunal, ready to testify. Darnay's charges are read: he...	[ "VI. Triumph", "The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined\nJury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were\nread out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The\nstandard gaoler-joke was, \"Come out and listen to the Evening Paper, you\ninside there...
803	98_book_3,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Manettes have been living pretty frugally, as they've had to pay for all of Darnay's food and lodging in prison. It hasn't been cheap. Nonetheless, they decide to have a little feast to celebrate Darnay's return. Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher have been taking care of the shopping for the past few months. It's actua...	[ "VII. A Knock at the Door", "\"I have saved him.\" It was not another of the dreams in which he had\noften come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a\nvague but heavy fear was upon her.", "All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately\nrevengeful and fitful, the i...
805	98_book_3,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While Darnay is being arrested at home, Miss Pross and Jerry are still out shopping for his feast. All of a sudden, Miss Pross sees a man and starts to scream. The man jumps in awkward embarrassment. Miss Pross runs up to him, calling out his name. Soloman, the man, drags her into an alley and tells her to shut up. Jer...	[ "VIII. A Hand at Cards", "Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her\nway along the narrow streets and crossed the river by the bridge of the\nPont-Neuf, reckoning in her mind the number of indispensable purchases\nshe had to make. Mr. Cruncher, with the basket, walked at her side. T...
806	98_book_3,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While Carton and Barsad are talking in the next room, Mr. Lorry sits in silence. He's staring at Jerry Cruncher. Hard. Finally, he asks what Jerry does besides working at Tellson's. Jerry says that his work is "agricultural" in nature. We're guessing that's because it involves dirt. Oh, and bodies. Lots of dead bodies....	[ "IX. The Game Made", "While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining\ndark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked\nat Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesman's\nmanner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the\nleg...
807	98_book_3,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's 1767. Dr. Manette writes in his prison cell. He's decided to recount the reason that he's been unjustly imprisoned for so long. To do so, he starts his history ten years earlier, in 1757. It's late at night. The doctor is out walking near his residence by the medical college. Suddenly, a carriage races by. The dri...	[ "X. The Substance of the Shadow", "\"I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and\nafterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful\ncell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year, 1767. I write\nit at stolen intervals, under every difficulty. I design to se...
808	98_book_3,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carton wanders through the streets of Paris, contemplating life. He's trying to work out his plan in his mind. Finally, he decides it will be best if the Defarges know what he looks like. Accordingly, he scouts out the wine-shop in Saint Antoine. Once he finds it, he has dinner and takes a nap. At seven, he heads over ...	[ "XII. Darkness", "Sydney Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go. \"At\nTellson's banking-house at nine,\" he said, with a musing face. \"Shall I\ndo well, in the mean time, to show myself? I think so. It is best that\nthese people should know there is such a man as I here; it is a sound\npreca...
809	98_book_3,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In his room in the prison, Darnay counts off the hours until his death. He thinks constantly of Lucie. Finally, he writes letters to Lucie, her father, and Mr. Lorry. Then he paces the room, counting off the last hours of his life. He knows that at three he'll be summoned to the carriage that will take him to the guill...	[ "XIII. Fifty-two", "In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited\ntheir fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were\nto roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless\neverlasting sea. Before their cells were quit of them, new occupants\nwere app...
810	98_book_3,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Back at the wine-shop, Madame Defarge is holding a council--without her husband. She's decided that he's too soft. He doesn't understand what it takes for a revolution to succeed. The Vengeance and Jacques Three, bloodthirsty as ever, agree. Madame Defarge admits that she cares nothing about Dr. Manette. He can live or...	[ "XIV. The Knitting Done", "In that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited their fate\nMadame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and\nJacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury. Not in the wine-shop did Madame\nDefarge confer with these ministers, but in the shed of the wood-sawyer,\ners...
811	98_book_3,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Six carts carry fifty-two people to the guillotine. Crowds of people gather to see the faces of the soon-to-be-dead. Out narrator pauses to explore the different looks on the various faces. Some seem bewildered, some angry, some absolutely hopeless. One in particular stares out into the crowd without any apparent inter...	[ "XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever", "Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six\ntumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and\ninsatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself,\nare fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. And yet there is n...
767	98_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The year is 1775, and life in England and France seems paradoxically the best and the worst that it can be. The rulers and ruling classes of both countries may have the best of life, but they are out of touch with the common people and believe that the status quo will continue forever. In France, inflation is out of co...	[ "I. The Period", "It was the best of times,\nit was the worst of times,\nit was the age of wisdom,\nit was the age of foolishness,\nit was the epoch of belief,\nit was the epoch of incredulity,\nit was the season of Light,\nit was the season of Darkness,\nit was the spring of hope,\nit was the winter of despair,\...
768	98_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In England, the Dover mail coach makes its way up a hill one late November night. The foreboding atmosphere of night and mist makes everyone uneasy -- the passengers, the coachman, and the guard. Highway robberies are common, and the travelers are as wary of each other as they are of anyone else they might meet on the ...	[ "II. The Mail", "It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November,\nbefore the first of the persons with whom this history has business.\nThe Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up\nShooter's Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail,\nas the rest o...
769	98_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the coach rattles its way toward Dover, Mr. Lorry dozes restlessly, reflecting upon his mission, "to dig some one out of a grave"who has been "buried alive for eighteen years."He envisions what the face of the man must look like and contemplates how severely the years may have affected him. Haunted by visions of the...	[ "III. The Night Shadows", "A 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 I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every...
770	98_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry arrives at the Royal George Hotel in Dover in the late morning. After freshening up, he spends the day relaxing and meditating on his mission while he waits for the young woman, Lucie Manette, to arrive. When Lucie arrives, Mr. Lorry introduces himself and proceeds to divulge the nature of her involvement in ...	[ "IV. The Preparation", "When the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon,\nthe head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his\ncustom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey\nfrom London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous...
771	98_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A street in the Parisian suburb of Saint Antoine is the scene of chaos as a crowd gathers in front of a wine-shop to scoop up pools of wine spilled from a broken cask. When the wine is gone, the people resume their everyday activities. Left behind, however, are the stains of the red wine on the street and the people's ...	[ "V. The Wine-shop", "A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The\naccident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled\nout with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just\noutside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.", "All the peo...
772	98_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The man making shoes works steadily at his bench. Aged and weakened by his long years in prison, he seems to be aware only of the task at hand -- shoemaking -- and does not even know that he has been released from prison. When asked his name, he responds, "One Hundred and Five, North Tower."When Lucie approaches him, h...	[ "VI. The Shoemaker", "\"Good day!\" said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that\nbent low over the shoemaking.", "It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the\nsalutation, as if it were at a distance:", "\"Good day!\"", "\"You are still hard at work, I see?\"", "After...
773	98_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Five years have passed since Tellson's Bank sent Mr. Lorry to bring Doctor Manette back to England. Tellson's continues to be "the triumphant perfection of inconvenience,"with its old-fashioned dark and cramped facility lending it an air of respectability and security. Jerry Cruncher acts as a porter and messenger for ...	[ "I. Five Years Later", "Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the\nyear one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very\ndark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place,\nmoreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were\nproud of its ...
774	98_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jerry is told to take a note to Mr. Lorry at the Old Bailey law court and to stay there until Mr. Lorry needs him. After arriving at the Old Bailey and giving the doorkeeper the note to deliver to Mr. Lorry, Jerry makes his way into the crowded courtroom. The court is hearing a treason case, punishable by the grisly se...	[ "II. A Sight", "\"You know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?\" said one of the oldest of\nclerks to Jerry the messenger.", "\"Ye-es, sir,\" returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. \"I _do_\nknow the Bailey.\"", "\"Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry.\"", "\"I know Mr. Lorry, sir, much better than I know t...
775	98_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The trial begins with the Attorney-General's long and often-times digressive statement of the treason charges against Darnay. Darnay's counsel, Mr. Stryver, attempts to discredit the prosecution's two main witnesses -- John Barsad and Roger Cly -- but the turning point in the trial comes when Stryver's associate, Sydne...	[ "III. A Disappointment", "Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before\nthem, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which\nclaimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the\npublic enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or\neven o...
776	98_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Doctor Manette, Lucie, Mr. Lorry, and Mr. Stryver congratulate Darnay on the verdict. After the group disperses, Carton approaches Darnay and invites him to a nearby tavern for dinner. Once there, Carton's erratic behavior bewilders Darnay. When Darnay tries to thank Carton for his assistance in the trial, Carton shrug...	[ "IV. Congratulatory", "From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the\nhuman stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when\nDoctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor\nfor the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr.\nCh...
777	98_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After a waiter at the tavern awakens him, Carton walks from the tavern to Stryver's chambers. The two work on some cases, with Carton doing the brunt of the work. When they finish, Carton and Stryver discuss their school days together and the differences in their fortunes -- how Stryver moved ahead in his profession wh...	[ "V. The Jackal", "Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is\nthe improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate\nstatement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow\nin the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a\nperfect ge...
778	98_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Four months have passed since the trial, and Mr. Lorry, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton have become regular visitors at the Manettes' home in Soho, where Miss Pross, Lucie's governess, also lives. While there one Sunday, Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross discuss the numerous suitors for Lucie's hand and the progress of Doctor...	[ "VI. Hundreds of People", "The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not\nfar from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the\nwaves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried\nit, as to the public interest and memory, far out to sea, Mr. Jarvis...
779	98_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A reception at the Parisian suite of Monseigneur, a French lord, showcases the excesses and superficiality of the French aristocracy. The Marquis St. Evremonde angrily leaves the reception after being snubbed by the other guests and treated coldly by Monseigneur. As his driver carouses recklessly through the Paris stre...	[ "VII. Monseigneur in Town", "Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his\nfortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in\nhis inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to\nthe crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without. Monseigneur\nwa...
780	98_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the Marquis travels from Paris to the Evremonde country estate, he rides through a landscape of sparse and withered crops. When his carriage stops in a village near his home, the Marquis questions a road-mender who claims he saw a man riding under the carriage, but the man is no longer there. Having alerted the vill...	[ "VIII. Monseigneur in the Country", "A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.\nPatches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas\nand beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On\ninanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a pr...
781	98_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Once inside the chateau, in his elegant private rooms, the Marquis prepares for supper and awaits his nephew's arrival. When his nephew -- Charles Darnay -- arrives, the two exchange brief formalities and then, after the servants have left, Darnay tells his uncle that he is renouncing all ties to his family and to Fran...	[ "IX. The Gorgon's Head", "It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis,\nwith a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of\nstaircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony\nbusiness altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and\nstone ...
782	98_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A year after the assassination of the Marquis, Darnay has made a life for himself in England as a tutor of French language and literature. He has been in love with Lucie since the trial, and he finally decides to speak to Doctor Manette about his feelings. Darnay tells the Doctor that he loves Lucie and wishes to marry...	[ "X. Two Promises", "More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles\nDarnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French\nlanguage who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he\nwould have been a Professor; in that age, he was a Tutor. He read with\nyoung men ...
783	98_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The same night that Darnay makes his declaration to Doctor Alexandre Manette, Stryver tells Carton that he has decided to marry Lucie. Stryver feels that he is doing Lucie a favor by making her his wife; she is not rich, but she is "a charming creature"who will make a nice home for him. After describing how eligible an...	[ "XI. A Companion Picture", "\"Sydney,\" said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his\njackal; \"mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you.\"", "Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before,\nand the night before that, and a good many nights in succession...
784	98_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Having decided to wed Lucie, Stryver heads to Soho to let her know of her good fortune. On the way, he drops by Tellson's Bank to share his marriage plans with Mr. Lorry. Rather than risk making Doctor Alexandre Manette or Lucie uncomfortable by receiving a proposal directly from Stryver, Mr. Lorry suggests that Stryve...	[ "XII. The Fellow of Delicacy", "Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good\nfortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known\nto her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental\ndebating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be a...
785	98_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One August afternoon, Carton resolves to reveal his feelings to Lucie. He tells her that although he is a hopeless case and can never reform, she revived his old dreams of leading a good life. Lucie suggests that he may still be able to redeem his life, but Carton states that it is too late; he knows his nature, and he...	[ "XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy", "If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the\nhouse of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year,\nand had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he\ncared to talk, he talked well; but, the cloud of caring for nothi...
786	98_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Jerry Cruncher sits outside Tellson's Bank, he notices a funeral procession approaching. People yelling "Spies!"surround the hearse and the mourning coach, and Cruncher discovers that the funeral belongs to Roger Cly, one of the spies who testified against Darnay. When the crowd tries to pull the sole mourner out of...	[ "XIV. The Honest Tradesman", "To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in\nFleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and\nvariety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who could sit\nupon anything in Fleet-street during the busy hours of the day, and\nnot be dazed ...
787	98_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The mender of roads who spotted the man under the Marquis St. Evremonde's carriage accompanies Defarge to the wine-shop. In the garret where Doctor Alexandre Manette stayed, Defarge and Jacques One, Two, and Three listen to the road-mender describe what happened to Gaspard, the man who killed the Marquis. Gaspard, who ...	[ "XV. Knitting", "There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine-shop of Monsieur\nDefarge. As early as six o'clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping\nthrough its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over\nmeasures of wine. Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best\nof times,...
788	98_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the road-mender departs for home and the Defarges return to Saint Antoine, a policeman who is a member of the Jacquerie informs Defarge to be alert for a new spy in the area, John Barsad. When they reach the wine-shop, the Defarges discuss the progress of the revolutionary activity. Defarge admits that the slowness ...	[ "XVI. Still Knitting", "Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the\nbosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the\ndarkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by\nthe wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where\nthe chateau ...
789	98_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The night before Lucie's wedding, she and her father sit outside and discuss her upcoming marriage. Lucie tells her father how happy she is and assures him that her love for Darnay will not interfere with their relationship. Doctor Alexandre Manette responds by telling her that marriage is a natural step for her to tak...	[ "XVII. One Night", "Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in\nSoho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat\nunder the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder\nradiance over great London, than on that night when it found them still\nseated u...
790	98_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the morning of Lucie and Darnay's wedding, Doctor Alexandre Manette and Darnay engage in a private discussion. Afterwards, the Doctor is very pale but composed. Lucie and Darnay are married and depart on a two-week honeymoon. Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross escort a subdued Doctor Manette home. Observing hints of the Docto...	[ "XVIII. Nine Days", "The marriage-day was shining brightly, and they were ready outside the\nclosed door of the Doctor's room, where he was speaking with Charles\nDarnay. They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr.\nLorry, and Miss Pross--to whom the event, through a gradual process of\nreconcilemen...
791	98_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the tenth morning, Doctor Alexandre Manette awakens fully recovered and unaware that anything unusual has transpired. Mr. Lorry tactfully conveys to the Doctor what has happened and asks what caused the relapse and how it can be prevented. The Doctor explains that he expected the relapse, which was caused by the rev...	[ "XIX. An Opinion", "Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the\ntenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun\ninto the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark\nnight.", "He rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he doubted, when he ...
792	98_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Soon after Lucie and Darnay return from their honeymoon, Carton visits them. He takes Darnay aside and, in an unusually sincere tone, asks for Darnay's friendship and apologizes for his rudeness after the trial. Darnay is casual about the apology, but assures Carton that he has forgotten any past offences. Carton then ...	[ "XX. A Plea", "When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to\noffer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home\nmany hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or\nin looks, or in manner; but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity\nabout ...
793	98_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Eight years have passed, and the year is 1789. Darnay continues to prosper, and he and Lucie have had two children -- a daughter named Lucie and a son who lived several years before he died. Both children have been especially fond of Carton, who visits a few times each year. Carton continues to work for Stryver, who ha...	[ "XXI. Echoing Footsteps", "A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where\nthe Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound\nher husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and\ncompanion, in a life of quiet bliss, Lucie sat in the still house in\nthe tr...
794	98_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A week after the fall of the Bastille, the revolutionaries learn that Foulon, a hated official who they thought was dead, is alive and has been captured. Apparently Foulon, who had said that starving people could eat grass, faked his death in order to escape the revolutionaries. Upon learning that Foulon is being held ...	[ "XXII. The Sea Still Rises", "Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften\nhis modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with\nthe relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame\nDefarge sat at her counter, as usual, presiding over the customers.\nMad...
795	98_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One July day, a stranger approaches the road-mender and asks for directions to the Evremonde chateau. That night, four figures set fire to the chateau and the villagers watch it burn, making no effort to put it out despite the pleas of servants from the chateau. Excited by the destruction of the chateau, the villagers ...	[ "XXIII. Fire Rises", "There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where\nthe mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the\nhighway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his\npoor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body together. The prison on the\ncrag ...
796	98_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Three more years have passed, and the French Revolution has succeeded in removing the royalty and aristocracy from power. France is still unsettled, however, and many members of the French upper classes who have fled to England use Tellson's as an information hub. One afternoon at Tellson's, Darnay and Mr. Lorry discus...	[ "XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock", "In such risings of fire and risings of sea--the firm earth shaken by\nthe rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the\nflow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on\nthe shore--three years of tempest were consumed. Three more b...
797	98_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles Darnay travels through France to Paris, encountering bands of revolutionaries in every village along the way who condemn him as an aristocrat and emigrant and allow him to continue on only because of his letter from Gabelle. A decree has passed, he learns, that sells all the property of emigrants and condemns t...	[ "I. In Secret", "The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from\nEngland in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and\nninety-two. More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad\nhorses, he would have encountered to delay him, though the fallen and\nunfortunate King of Fran...
798	98_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry is troubled by the violence in the city as he sits in his rooms at the Paris branch of Tellson's Bank. Suddenly, Lucie and Doctor Alexandre Manette rush into the room, and Lucie frantically tells him that the revolutionaries have taken Charles prisoner. A mob enters the courtyard outside and begins sharpening...	[ "II. The Grindstone", "Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was\nin a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from\nthe street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to\na great nobleman who had lived in it until he made a flight from the\ntroubles...
799	98_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Despite his personal devotion to Lucie and her daughter, Mr. Lorry recognizes as a businessman that keeping the family of a La Force prisoner at Tellson's could endanger the bank. Consequently, he finds a nearby apartment for them and leaves Jerry Cruncher there to protect them. The day drags on with no word from Docto...	[ "III. The Shadow", "One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr.\nLorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to\nimperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under\nthe Bank roof. His own possessions, safety, life, he would have hazarded\nf...
800	98_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After four days, Doctor Alexandre Manette finally returns from the prison. He tells Mr. Lorry how he tried to influence the court tribunal to free his son-in-law, but only secured a guarantee of Darnay's safety. He also recounts the erratic behavior of the mob, which one minute would violently attack condemned prisoner...	[ "IV. Calm in Storm", "Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his\nabsence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be\nkept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that\nnot until long afterwards, when France and she were far apart, did she\nkn...
801	98_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Throughout Darnay's imprisonment, Lucie goes to the prison for two hours each day hoping that her husband will be able to see her. The spot where he might view her, however, is next to a woodcutter's house. The woodcutter, formerly the road-mender, torments Lucie by pretending to saw off her and her daughter's heads; L...	[ "V. The Wood-Sawyer", "One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never\nsure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her\nhusband's head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the\ntumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely girls; bright\nwomen, brown-...
802	98_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the trial the next day, Darnay offers an articulate and well-planned defense of himself. However, the jury remains unconvinced of his innocence until Doctor Alexandre Manette and Mr. Lorry testify on his behalf. The court spectators who called for Darnay's head at the beginning of the trial cheer wildly when the jur...	[ "VI. Triumph", "The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined\nJury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were\nread out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The\nstandard gaoler-joke was, \"Come out and listen to the Evening Paper, you\ninside there...
803	98_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Although the Doctor voices confidence in the validity of Darnay's release, Lucie remains fearful for her husband's safety. As the family enjoys a quiet evening together, Miss Pross leaves on a shopping expedition with Jerry Cruncher. Soon afterward, four rough men pound on the door and enter the apartment. They inform ...	[ "VII. A Knock at the Door", "\"I have saved him.\" It was not another of the dreams in which he had\noften come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a\nvague but heavy fear was upon her.", "All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately\nrevengeful and fitful, the i...
805	98_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher enter a wine-shop, Miss Pross screams at the sight of a man about to leave whom she recognizes as her brother, Solomon Pross. Nervous about the attention Miss Pross is drawing to him, Solomon tells her to be quiet, and they leave the shop. Cruncher follows, trying to remember where he's...	[ "VIII. A Hand at Cards", "Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her\nway along the narrow streets and crossed the river by the bridge of the\nPont-Neuf, reckoning in her mind the number of indispensable purchases\nshe had to make. Mr. Cruncher, with the basket, walked at her side. T...
806	98_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	With Carton and Barsad in the other room, Mr. Lorry expresses his outrage at Jerry's grave robbing activities and tells Jerry that he will be fired from Tellson's. Never quite admitting his wrongdoing, Jerry asks Mr. Lorry to let his son take his place at Tellson's and tells him that he will become a regular gravedigge...	[ "IX. The Game Made", "While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining\ndark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked\nat Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesman's\nmanner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the\nleg...

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