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807	98_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In December 1757, two noblemen sought out Doctor Alexandre Manette and requested his medical expertise. Secretly taking him to a country house outside of Paris, the men -- who Doctor Manette observed were twin brothers -- ordered the Doctor to care for a delirious young peasant woman and her dying brother. The woman's ...	[ "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...
812	98_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Darnay's death sentence devastates Lucie, but she manages to control her shock for her husband's sake. As the crowd jubilantly leaves, the court grants her permission to embrace her husband one last time. She and Darnay say their farewells, and Doctor Alexandre Manette approaches them. Darnay tries to comfort his fathe...	[ "XI. Dusk", "The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under\nthe sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no\nsound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was\nshe of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment\nit, that it q...
808	98_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Deciding to make himself known to the local citizens, Carton goes to the Defarge wine-shop. Madame Defarge notices the resemblance between Carton and Darnay, but she is soon convinced that Carton is not Darnay because Carton pretends that he knows very little French. As Carton appears to be absorbed in a newspaper, the...	[ "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_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the eve of his execution, Darnay comes to terms with his imminent death. After writing letters to Lucie, Doctor Alexandre Manette, and Mr. Lorry, he spends the night restlessly trying to sleep. The next day, Carton enters the cell at one o'clock in the afternoon and exchanges clothes with him. Then, while Carton dic...	[ "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_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Defarge tells The Vengeance and Jacques Three that she plans to denounce Lucie, Lucie's daughter, and Doctor Alexandre Manette that evening after Darnay's execution. She then leaves for Lucie's residence, knowing she will find Lucie grieving for Darnay. Showing grief for an enemy of the Republic is considered tr...	[ "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_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the carts carrying the fifty-two prisoners roll through the Paris streets, people crowd to see Evremonde go to his death. In his cart, Carton ignores the yelling crowds, focusing instead on the seamstress. When they reach the guillotine, they discuss the afterlife, taking no notice of prisoners steadily being execut...	[ "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_book_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. As its title promises, this brief chapter establishes the era in which the novel takes place: England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes--"It was the best ...	[ "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.	The Mail On a Friday night in late November of 1775, a mail coach wends its way from London to Dover. The journey proves so treacherous that the three passengers must dismount from the carriage and hike alongside it as it climbs a steep hill. From out of the great mists, a messenger on horseback appears and asks to spe...	[ "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.	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. The narrator ponders the secrets and mysteries that each human being poses to every other: Lorry, as he rides on in the mail coach with two strangers, constitutes a case in...	[ "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.	The Preparation The next morning, Lorry descends from the coach at the Royal George Hotel in Dover. After shedding his travel clothes, he emerges as a well-dressed businessman of sixty. That afternoon, a waiter announces that Lucie Manette has arrived from London. Lorry meets the "short, slight, pretty figure" who has ...	[ "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.	The Wine shop The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street. The setting shifts from Dover, England to Saint Antoine, a poor suburb of Paris. A wine cask falls to the pavement in the street and everyone rushes to it. Men kneel and scoop up the wine that has pooled in the paving stones, while wo...	[ "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.	The Shoemaker Manette reports, in a voice gone faint with "solitude and disuse," that he is making a lady's shoe in the "present mode," or fashion, even though he has never seen the present fashion. When asked his name, he responds, "One Hundred and Five, North Tower. Lucie approaches. Noticing her radiant golden hair,...	[ "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.	Five Years Later It is now 1780. Tellson's Bank in London prides itself on being "very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. Were it more welcoming, the bank's partners believe, it would lose its status as a respectable business. It is located by Temple Bar, the spot where, until recently, the government disp...	[ "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.	A Sight The bank clerk instructs Cruncher to go to the Old Bailey Courthouse and await orders from Jarvis Lorry. Cruncher arrives at the court, where Charles Darnay, a handsome, well-bred young man, stands trial for treason. Cruncher understands little of the legal jargon, but he gleans that Darnay has been charged wit...	[ "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.	A Disappointment The Attorney-General prosecutes the case, demanding that the jury find Darnay guilty of passing English secrets into French hands. The Solicitor-General examines John Barsad, whose testimony supports the Attorney-General's case. The cross-examination, however, tarnishes Barsad's pure and righteous char...	[ "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.	Congratulatory Doctor Manette, Lucie, Mr. Lorry, Mr. Stryver, and Darnay exit the courtroom. The narrator relates that Manette has established himself as an upright and distinguished citizen, though the gloom of his terrible past descends on him from time to time. These clouds descend only rarely, however, and Lucie fe...	[ "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.	The Jackal Sydney Carton, the "idlest and most unpromising of men," makes his way from the tavern to Mr. Stryver's apartment. The men drink together and discuss the day's court proceedings. Stryver, nicknamed "the lion," compliments his friend, "the jackal," for the "rare point" that he made regarding Darnay's identifi...	[ "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.	Hundreds of People Four months later, Mr. Lorry, now a trusted friend of the Manette family, arrives at Doctor Manette's home. Finding Manette and his daughter not at home, he converses with Miss Pross. They discuss why the doctor continues to keep his shoemaker's bench. Their conversation also touches on the number of...	[ "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.	Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, a great lord in the royal court, holds a reception in Paris. He surrounds himself with the greatest pomp and luxury. For example, he has four serving men help him drink his chocolate. The narrator tells us that Monseigneur's money corrupts everyone who touches it. Monseigneur parades ar...	[ "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.	Monseigneur in the Country The Marquis arrives in the small village to which he serves as lord. There, too, the people live wretched lives, exploited, poor, and starving. As he looks over the submissive faces of the peasants, he singles out a road-mender whom he passed on his journey, a man whose fixed stare bothered h...	[ "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 Gorgon's Head Later that night, at the Marquis' chateau, Charles Darnay, the nephew of the Marquis, arrives by carriage. Darnay tells his uncle that he wants to renounce the title and property that he stands to inherit when the Marquis dies. The family's name, Darnay contends, is associated with "fear and slavery. ...	[ "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.	Two Promises A year later, Darnay makes a moderate living as a French teacher in London. He visits Doctor Manette and admits his love for Lucie. He honors Manette's special relationship with his daughter, assuring him that his own love for Lucie will in no way disturb that bond. Manette applauds Darnay for speaking so ...	[ "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.	A Companion Picture Late that same night, Carton and Stryver work in Stryver's chambers. In his puffed-up and arrogant manner, Stryver announces that he intends to marry Lucie. Carton drinks heavily at the news, assuring Stryver that his words have not upset him. Stryver suggests that Carton himself find "some respecta...	[ "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.	The Fellow of Delicacy The next day, Stryver plans to take Lucie to the Vauxhall Gardens to make his marriage proposal. On his way, he drops in at Tellson's Bank, where he informs Mr. Lorry of his intentions. Lorry persuades Stryver to postpone his proposal until he knows for certain that Lucie will accept. This admoni...	[ "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.	The Fellow of No Delicacy Carton, who frequently wanders near the Manettes' house late at night, enters the house one August day and speaks to Lucie alone. She observes a change in his face. He laments his wasted life, despairing that he shall never live a better life than the one he now lives. Lucie assures him that h...	[ "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.	The Honest Tradesman One morning outside Tellson's Bank, Jerry Cruncher sees a funeral pass by. Jerry asks a few questions and learns that the crowd is preparing to bury Roger Cly, a convicted spy and one of the men who testified against Darnay in his court case. Cruncher joins the motley procession, which includes a c...	[ "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.	Knitting In Paris, Defarge enters his wine shop with a mender of roads whom he calls "Jacques. Three men file out of the shop individually. Eventually, Defarge and the mender of roads climb up to the garret where Doctor Manette had been hidden. There they join the three men who recently exited the shop, and whom Defarg...	[ "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.	Still Knitting The Defarges return to Saint Antoine later that evening. A policeman friend warns Defarge that a spy by the name of John Barsad has been sent to their neighborhood. Madame Defarge resolves to knit his name into the register. That night, Defarge admits his fear that the revolution will not come in his lif...	[ "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 It is the eve of Lucie's marriage to Darnay. Lucie and her father have enjoyed long days of happiness together. Doctor Manette finally has begun to put his imprisonment behind him. For the first time since his release, Manette speaks of his days in the Bastille. In prison, he passed much time imagining what s...	[ "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 Darnay and Doctor Manette converse before going to church for Darnay's wedding to Lucie. Manette emerges "deadly pale" from this meeting. Darnay and Lucie are married and depart for their honeymoon. Almost immediately, a change comes over Manette; he now looks scared and lost. Later that day, Miss Pross and M...	[ "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, Lorry wakes to find the shoemaker's bench put away and the Doctor reading a book. Lorry cautiously asks Manette what might have caused the now-ended relapse, relating Manette's strange case as though it had happened to someone else. Manette suggests that he himself anticipated the rever...	[ "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 Lucie and Darnay return home from their honeymoon, Sydney Carton is their first visitor. He apologizes for his drunkenness on the night of the trial and delivers a self-effacing speech in which he asks for Darnay's friendship: "If you could endure to have such a worthless fellow. coming and going at odd tim...	[ "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 Years go by, and Lucie and her family enjoy a tranquil life. She gives birth to a daughter, little Lucie, and a son, who dies young. Lucie still maintains her habit of sitting in a corner of the parlor, listening to the echoing footsteps on the street below. By 1789, the echoes reverberate "from a dis...	[ "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 One week later in Saint Antoine, Defarge arrives bearing news of the capture of Foulon, a wealthy man who once declared that if people were starving they should eat grass. Foulon had faked his own death to avoid the peasants' fury but was later discovered hiding in the country. The revolutionaries s...	[ "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 The French countryside lies ruined and desolate. An unidentified man, weary from travel, meets the mender of roads. They address each other as "Jacques" to indicate their status as revolutionaries. The mender of roads directs the man to the chateau of the murdered Marquis. Later that night, the man sets the ...	[ "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 years pass. Political turmoil continues in France, causing England to become a refuge for persecuted aristocrats. Tellson's Bank in London becomes a "great gathering-place of Monseigneur. Tellson's has decided to dispatch Mr. Lorry to its Paris branch, in hopes that he can protect thei...	[ "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 Travel through France proves difficult for Darnay. Hostile revolutionaries frequently stop him and question him. Upon his arrival in Paris, the revolutionaries confine him to a prison called La Force. Darnay protests and reminds his jailers of his rights. However, the guard responds that, as an emigrant, Darn...	[ "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 Lucie and Doctor Manette storm into the Paris branch of Tellson's Bank to find Mr. Lorry. They inform him that Darnay sits imprisoned in La Force. Manette remains confident that he can use his standing as a one-time prisoner of the Bastille to help rescue his son-in-law. Lorry sends Lucie into the back r...	[ "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 Fearing that Lucie and Manette's presence might compromise the bank's business, Lorry ushers Lucie, her daughter, and Miss Pross to a nearby lodging. He leaves Jerry Cruncher to guard them. Back at Tellson's, Defarge approaches Lorry with a message from Manette. Following Manette's instructions, Lorry leads ...	[ "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 Four days later, Manette returns from La Force. Lorry notes a change in the once-fragile Manette, who now seems full of strength and power. Manette tells him that he has persuaded the Tribunal, a self-appointed body that tries and sentences the revolution's prisoners, to keep Darnay alive. Moreover, he ha...	[ "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 While the family waits for Darnay's trial, Manette tells Lucie of a window in the prison from which Darnay might see her in the street. For two hours every day, Lucie stands in the area visible from this window. A wood-sawyer who works nearby talks with Lucie while she waits, pretending that his saw is ...	[ "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 A motley and bloodthirsty crowd assembles at the trial of Charles Darnay. When Doctor Manette is announced as Darnay's father-in-law, a happy cry goes up among the audience. The court hears testimony from Darnay, Manette, and Gabelle, establishing that Darnay long ago had renounced his title out of disapproval ...	[ "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 The next day, although Manette rejoices in having saved Darnay's life, Lucie remains terrified for her husband. Later that afternoon, she reports hearing footsteps on the stairs, and soon a knock comes at the door. Four soldiers enter and re-arrest Darnay. Manette protests, but one of the soldiers r...	[ "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.	A Hand at Cards Meanwhile, Jerry Cruncher and Miss Pross discover Miss Pross's long-lost brother, Solomon, in a wine shop. Solomon scolds his sister for making a scene over their reunion. He cannot afford to be identified because he is working as a spy for the Republic. Meanwhile, Cruncher recognizes Solomon as the wit...	[ "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.	The Game Made Lorry scolds Cruncher for leading a secret life outside his job at Tellson's. Cruncher hints that there may be many doctors involved in grave-robbing who bank at Tellson's. Cruncher then makes amends, saying that if Lorry will let young Jerry Cruncher inherit his own duties at the bank, he himself will be...	[ "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.	The Substance of the Shadow Defarge claims that Manette wrote the letter while imprisoned in the Bastille, and he reads it aloud. It tells the story of Manette's imprisonment. In 1757, a pair of brothers, one the Marquis Evremonde and the other the next in line to be Marquis , ordered Doctor Manette to care for a young...	[ "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...
812	98_book_3,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dusk The courtroom crowd pours into the streets to celebrate Darnay's condemnation. John Barsad, charged with ushering Darnay back to his cell, lets Lucie embrace her husband one last time. Darnay insists that Doctor Manette not blame himself for the trial's outcome. Darnay is escorted back to his cell to await his exe...	[ "XI. Dusk", "The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under\nthe sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no\nsound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was\nshe of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment\nit, that it q...
808	98_book_3,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Darkness Carton goes to Defarge's wine shop. The Defarges marvel at how much he physically resembles the condemned Darnay. Carton overhears Madame Defarge's plan to accuse Lucie and Manette of spying, and to accuse Lucie's daughter as well. Defarge himself finds this course unnecessary, but his wife reminds him of her ...	[ "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.	Fifty two Fifty-two people have been condemned to die the next day. Darnay resolves to meet his death bravely. Carton appears at the door to Darnay's cell, and Darnay observes something new and bright in Carton's face. Carton tricks Darnay into switching clothes with him, dictates a letter of explanation, and then drug...	[ "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.	The Knitting Done Meanwhile, Madame Defarge heads toward Lucie's apartment to try to catch Lucie in the illegal act of mourning a prisoner. Evidence of such a crime, she believes, will strengthen her case against the family. At the apartment, Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher are in the middle of making final arrangements ...	[ "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.	The Footsteps Die Out Forever Crush humanity out of shape once more. and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of. oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind. Carton and the young seamstress reach the guillotine. The Vengeance and the other revolu...	[ "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_book_1_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This book by Charles Dickens contains two of the most famous literary quotes of all time. One appears at the start of the book and the other at the end of the novel. Dickens begins with the statement that '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...	[ "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,\...
813	98_book_1_chapters_2-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The tale begins in the London/Dover mail coach making its way to the coast one stormy November night. Inside the coach are three passengers wrapped up warmly against the elements so that you can barely recognize whom they are. They do not talk to one another and travel almost as if in solitude. They are wary of each ot...	[ "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...
770	98_book_1_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry arrives at the Royal George Hotel in Dover and after refreshing himself, spends the day pondering on his mission while he waits for the young woman who is Lucie Manette. She arrives believing that there is some property belonging to her late father in Paris, but Mr. Lorry breaks the news to her that her fathe...	[ "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.	In the Paris suburb of St. Antoine there is a scene of mayhem as a crowd gather in front of a wine shop scooping up wine from a broken cask as it flows down the cobbled street. This is a very poor area of Paris and for many this fortune of free wine is a rare gift. Those that grovel in the wine have red hands, faces an...	[ "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.	The man making the shoes in the garret of the wine shop is Dr. Manette who is preoccupied with his labor. He has aged and is weakened by his long incarceration and perhaps does not even know that he has been released. When asked his name he responds 'One hundred and five North Tower'. However, when Lucie approaches him...	[ "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...
814	98_book_2_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is now five years since Mr. Lorry brought Dr. Manette and his daughter back to England. Jerry Cruncher is employed as the porter and messenger for the Bank, Tellson's. Before going to work he argues with his wife concerning her constant praying. He believes it to be superstitious and bad for his work. He takes up hi...	[ "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 ...
815	98_book_2_chapters_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The trial begins with the Attorney General reading a statement concerning the charges of Treason against Darnay. Darnay's lawyer is a Mr. Stryver and he tries to discredit the prosecution's main witnesses, John Barsad and Roger Cly. It is clear that Judge and Jury have already assumed that Darnay is guilty. He is accus...	[ "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...
816	98_book_2_chapters_5-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carton awakes in a tavern and walks to Stryver's Chambers to do some work. Carton and Stryver both attended school together in Paris, but they have had different fortunes since then, Stryver moving to the top of his profession while Carton remains in his shadow. They discuss Lucie Manette who Stryver admires, but whom ...	[ "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...
817	98_book_2_chapters_7-8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A French Lord holds a showcase Extravaganza where all the important aristocrats attend. The host snubs the Marquis St. Evremonde and he leaves the reception angrily, ordering his driver to race through the Paris streets. He accidentally runs over a child whose father is Gaspard. He tosses the grief-stricken father a co...	[ "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...
781	98_book_2_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles Darnay, the Marquis' nephew arrives, saying that he wishes to renounce all ties to the family and to France. The Marquis shows his dislike for his nephew, who equally despises his uncle, so much so that he is in fear of the very name of Evremonde. Before they part, the Marquis asks about his relationship with D...	[ "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 ...
818	98_book_2_chapters_10-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is a year further on from the assassination of the Marquis and Darnay has settled down to a quiet life in England teaching French language and literature. He is in love with Luce and decides to reveal his feelings to Dr. Manette. He feels bound to tell the Doctor his true identity, but he stops him, saying he should...	[ "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 ...
819	98_book_2_chapters_13-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carton is consumed by his feelings for Lucie and although his position is hopeless he decides to confide in Lucie. She tries to encourage him to redeem his life, but Carton states that it is too late and that he will only descend lower. However, he wants her to know how deeply he loves her and that he will do all in hi...	[ "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...
820	98_book_2_chapters_15-16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The road mender who spotted the man under the Marquis' coach goes to Defarge's wine shop to tell them that Gaspard, who has been in hiding, has been captured, jailed and hanged with his corpse left dangling in the village fountain. They take the road mender to see the splendor of the court and to cheer at the nobles. T...	[ "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,...
821	98_book_2_chapters_17-19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the eve of Lucie's wedding, she and her father discuss the forthcoming events and Lucie assures her father that her love for Darnay will not interfere with their relationship. He tells her that when he was in prison he would think about the child he had never known, and wondered what her fate would be. He is gratefu...	[ "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...
822	98_book_2_chapters_20-22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Soon after the return of Lucie and Darnay, Carton visits them wishing to make amends with Darnay regarding his rudeness at the trial. They agree to become friends allowing Carton to visit the family on occasions. The year is now 1789 and the Darnay's have had two children, a daughter named Lucie and a son who lived onl...	[ "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 ...
823	98_book_2_chapters_23-24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapters 23 and 24: Evremonde Chateau ummary Despite the pleas from the servants at the chateau, the local villagers burn it down and they threaten Gabelle, the village officer. A further three years pass and the French Revolution have successfully removed the ruling classes. Many of the French aristocracy have fled to...	[ "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 ...
797	98_book_3_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles Darnay journeys to Paris and in every village along the way he meets bands of revolutionaries who condemn him as an aristocrat being an immigrant. He is allowed to continue only because he shows them the letter from Gabelle. In Paris he learns that he has been declared a prisoner 'in secret' by a prison tribuna...	[ "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.	Lucie and Dr. Manette burst into Mr. Lorry's room in the Paris branch of Tellson's Bank. They tell him that the revolutionaries have imprisoned Charles and Mr. Lorry calms Lucie and she goes to rest in another room. Mr. Lorry informs Dr. Manette that the mob is butchering prisoners in the La Force prison. Dr. Manette i...	[ "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.	Mr. Lorry is concerned that Lucie and her child could also be in danger and their presence in the bank could also endanger this institution. He, therefore, finds them an apartment nearby and charges Jerry Cruncher to protect them. There has been no word from Dr. Manette. Defarge meets Mr. Lorry and has a letter from th...	[ "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.	Four days elapse and finally Dr. Manette returns from the prison. He has tried to influence the court tribunal to release his son-in-law, but all he has achieved is his safety for the time being. He describes the situation as very volatile saying that the mob is acting erratically. Prisoners are condemned or freed at a...	[ "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.	Lucie visits the prison every day and waits for two hours in the courtyard hoping that Darnay can spot her. The road mender from Evremonde village is now the woodcutter at the prison. He intimidates Lucie by pretending to cut off her head and that of her daughter. Dr. Manette tells Lucie to blow a kiss to Darnay becaus...	[ "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.	Darnay defends himself in the court and makes a well-planned and well-rehearsed defense of himself. Both Dr. Manette and Mr. Lorry testify on his behalf. The spectators are impressed, and cheer wildly when the jury acquits him. He is reunited with Lucie and his daughter who are proud of what he has accomplished.	[ "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.	Lucie is still fearful regarding her husband's safety and it is not long before Darnay is seized again with accusations from three people, the Defarges and one other anonymous person. The trial will take place next day.	[ "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.	Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher are on a shopping expedition and they enter a wine shop where she discovers her brother Solomon Pross and she lets out a scream. Jerry Cruncher recognizes the man, but he can't quite place him. Solomon tells her to be quiet and they all leave the shop. They meet up with Sidney Carton who h...	[ "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.	Carton and Barsad leave in order to discuss Carton's plan. Mr. Lorry expresses outrage at the revelation that Jerry Cruncher was a part-time grave robber saying that he will be dismissed from Tellson's Bank. Jerry says that he will make up for his previous transgressions and become a regular gravedigger, and requests t...	[ "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.	We now learn the story of Dr. Manette's paper found in the Bastille. In 1757, Dr. Manette was called to a country house outside Paris by two noblemen. They were twins. He was asked to care for a delirious young peasant woman and her dying brother. The brother tells the Doctor that the noblemen had raped the woman and c...	[ "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...
812	98_book_3_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lucie is devastated at the verdict and the Doctor cries out in anguish, wringing his hands in frustration. Lucie faints and Carton carries her to the waiting coach. Back at their lodgings, young Lucie begs Carton to help her parents. Lucie is still unconscious when Carton takes his leave by gently kissing her and sayin...	[ "XI. Dusk", "The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under\nthe sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no\nsound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was\nshe of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment\nit, that it q...
808	98_book_3_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carton goes to the Defarge wine shop in order to make himself known to the local citizens. Mme. Defarge notices the resemblance between Carton and Darnay, but Carton pretends that he knows very little French. The Vengeance and the three Jacques discuss what they should do about Lucie, her daughter and Dr. Manette. Mme....	[ "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.	Darnay has written letters to his family and at 1.00 p.m. in the afternoon Carton enters his cell. He has obtained a drug from a pharmacy and he drugs Darnay. Two guards who believe that Darnay is Carton carry him out of the prison and Carton is taken to a larger cell where fifty-two prisoners await execution. Only one...	[ "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.	Mme. Defarge is now going to denounce Lucie and her daughter and Dr. Manette that very evening and she goes to Lucie's residence hoping and knowing that she will find Lucie grieving, which is an offence in the Republic as no grief is to be shown for those convicted of treason. Mme. Defarge enters the apartment to find ...	[ "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.	The carts carrying the fifty-two prisoners trundle through the Paris streets and the people crowd round to see Evremonde go to his death. Carton ignores the yelling throng and focuses on the seamstress. He comforts her and recalls the resurrection passage from the Bible. The Vengeance is concerned at the absence of Mme...	[ "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...
824	98_book_1_chapter_1-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator begins his story in the year 1775 with the observation that "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and concludes that it was a period in all respects much like the one nearly 70 years later from which the tale is being told. The narrator observes that there were kings and queens in England a...	[ "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,\...
825	98_book_1_chapter_5-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The scene is the squalid street outside a wine shop in the poverty-stricken Saint Antoine district of Paris. A cask of red wine has been spilled in the street and hungry peasants use various means to sop and drink the mixture of wine and mud before it soaks away. The narrator describes these people as desperate and hag...	[ "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...
826	98_book_2_chapter_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is five years later, the year 1780, and Tellson's Bank of London remains an old-fashioned place, proud of its smallness, darkness, ugliness and inconveniences. The old partners in the firm suffer no improvements and in this way mirror England as a whole. Death is meted out for all offenses, whether it be unlawfully ...	[ "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 ...
827	98_book_2_chapter_4-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Outside the court Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, Doctor Manette and Mr. Lorry discuss the trial. After kissing Lucie's hand, Mr. Darnay thanks Mr. Stryver who has pushed his way into the group. Mr. Lorry sees Dr. Manette look somewhat fearfully and curiously at Charles Darnay. Soon the doctor and his daughter depart. 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...
778	98_book_2_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Four months pass. Mr. Lorry is in the habit of visiting Lucie and Dr. Manette in their pleasant Soho home on Sunday afternoons. Dr. Manette practices medicine from his house and has earned a reputation as a shrewd and vigilant scientist. On an exceptionally fine Sunday Mr. Lorry arrives at the Manette residence and is ...	[ "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...
828	98_book_2_chapter_7-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Paris, Monseigneur is holding one of his regular receptions at his Grand Hotel. The Monseigneur is in his private chamber with the four men required to properly serve him his chocolate. The narrator describes the opulence of Monseigneur's lifestyle, filled with parties and theater, and sums up the nobles' idea of pu...	[ "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...
829	98_book_2_chapter_10-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is one year later and Charles Darnay has established himself as a higher teacher of the French language. He works hard and prospers from his diligence. One summer day he visits Dr. Manette with the intention of asking for Lucie's hand in marriage. The doctor has become an energetic and productive man and enthusiasti...	[ "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 ...
820	98_book_2_chapter_15-16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	For three days in a row there has been more than the usual number of early drinkers in the Defarge's wine shop. Monsieur Defarge has been absent for several days but Madame Defarge tends to her customers, many of whom come not to drink but to whisper conspiracies. When known spies for the government enter the conversat...	[ "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,...
830	98_book_2_chapter_16-20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Book II Chapter 17-20 The night before Lucie Manette is to marry Charles Darnay she and her father sit under the plane tree in their yard and she reassures him that he love for Charles and all the ties that marriage will bring will not intrude upon her feelings for her father. He assures her that he knows this to be tr...	[ "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...
831	98_book_2_chapter_21-24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Years pass. Lucie occasionally suffers misgivings about the future but she is a model mother and homemaker. She gives birth to a daughter, which she and Charles name Lucie. Later they have a son who dies while still a child. They see Sydney Carton about six times a year but he is never intoxicated when he visits. Littl...	[ "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...
832	98_book_3_chapter_1-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Upon arriving in France, Charles Darnay's progress to Paris is retarded by numerous inspections by each small village's group of red-capped patriots. At one such village, still a far distance from Paris, he is awakened in the middle of the night and is told that as an aristocrat he must be escorted to Paris under guard...	[ "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...
833	98_book_3_chapter_6-11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles Darnay is called to appear before the dreaded Tribunal of five judges. On the day that he appears all fifteen prisoners who go before him are sentenced to death. He notices that Madame and Monsieur Defarge are in the audience but they do not look at him. Doctor Manette and Mr. Lorry are also in attendance. Foll...	[ "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...
834	98_book_3_chapter_12-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	With several hours to spare, Carton goes to the Defarge's wine shop with the purpose of making his face known to the revolutionaries. At the shop, he pretends to be unfamiliar with the French language and Madame Defarge closely examines his appearance. He overhears the Defarge's commenting on his likeness to Darnay and...	[ "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...
767	98_chapter_1:_the_period	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the opening chapter, the period in which the novel is set is described. The story begins about fifteen years before the French Revolution. It is a time when many people think they live in the best of times, while others condemn it as the worst of times. The kings of England and France are both mediocre rulers, and t...	[ "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:_the_mail	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Dover mail coach makes its way laboriously up Shooter's Hill on a wet Friday night in November, 1775. Tired horses are dragging the coach while the passengers trudge alongside. Because of the general state of affairs in England, the passengers are suspicious of the driver, of the guard, and of one another; they are...	[ "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:_the_night_shadows	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The messenger, Jerry Cruncher, trots off into the darkness to deliver the message to the night watchman of Tellson's Bank. On the way, he stops a number of times to scratch his head and think about the perplexing message. In the coach, Mr. Lorry dozes and dreams about the man who has been all but buried alive in a pris...	[ "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:_the_preparation	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry arrives at Dover and checks into a hotel, where he showers and changes. At the desk, he leaves instructions for accommodations to be prepared for a certain young woman due to arrive at any time; he also asks to be notified upon her arrival. While he waits for dinner in the coffee shop, the waiter announces th...	[ "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:_the_wine_shop	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The suburb of Saint Antoine in Paris is covered with the gloom of winter, casting a brooding look over everything; there is also filth, sickness, ignorance, and need everywhere. A cask of wine has just shattered outside the wine shop. The nearby people, not wanting to miss this opportunity for a free drink, rush over t...	[ "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...

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