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772	98_chapter_6:_the_shoemaker	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Monsieur Defarge greets Dr. Manette, who responds in a faint voice, and gains the old man's permission to let more light into the room. The rays of light reveal a workman with a half-finished shoe on his lap and scraps of leather all around him. He has a raggedly cut white beard, a hollow face, and very bright eyes. Hi...	[ "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:_five_years_later	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tellson's Bank is situated by Temple Bar. It is an old-fashioned, small, ugly, and somewhat decrepit building. Appropriately, all the employees that are seen in the bank are old men; and they are very conservative. Tellson's Bank is a strong supporter of the death penalty and has caused the death of many offenders Jerr...	[ "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:_a_sight	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When he arrives at the bank, the clerk tells Jerry to go down to the courthouse, the Old Bailey, and wait for Mr. Lorry. The clerk gives him a note that he is supposed to pass to Mr. Lorry by way of the doorkeeper of the courthouse. The case being tried that day is for treason. The punishment is that the guilty be hang...	[ "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:_a_disappointment	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The prisoner, Charles Darnay, has been accused of being a traitor to George III, King of England, by assisting Louis XVI, King of France, in his wars against England. He supposedly has moved between the two countries to gain and supply information as to what forces the English have to send to Canada. The Attorney Gener...	[ "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:_congratulatory	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After the trial, Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Mr. Lorry, and Mr. Stryver stand around Charles Darnay congratulating him on his acquittal. Dr. Manette, with his intellectual face and upright figure, no longer looks like the shoemaker of the garret in Paris. However, if that past time is ever mentioned, his spirit becomes...	[ "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:_the_jackal	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Stryvers practice as a barrister has been rapidly increasing, probably due in part to his being loud-voiced and pushy. He is judged to be an intelligent lawyer who can extract the essentials from any information. He is also judged as bold and unscrupulous; perhaps that is why he is friendly with Mr. Carton. The two...	[ "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:_hundreds_of_people	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Manette lives on a quiet street corner near Soho square. One Sunday, four months after Darnays trial Mr. Lorry goes to dine with him. The doctor, restored to health and sanity, now earns good money by treating patients and conducting ingenious experiments. Mr. Lorry observes that the Doctor has the shoemaker's benc...	[ "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:_the_marquis_in_paris	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Monseigneur, the Marquis, is an influential member of the ruling oligarch, known for his selfishness. He sits in his Parisian suite drinking chocolate served by four men. Various members of high society congregate in his reception rooms. Their fancy dress and false conversations are reflective of their pretentious natu...	[ "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:_the_marquis_in_the_country	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Marquis makes his way from Paris through the countryside towards the Evremonde family estate. The crops on the way look dried and withered, just like the peasants. When the carriage stops at a poor village, many peasants are at the fountain washing leaves or anything else that can be eaten. The Marquis gazes with c...	[ "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:_the_gorgon's_head	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chateau of the Evremondes is a large, heavy mass of building, with a large courtyard before it. Two stone staircases meet in a stone terrace before the principal door. There are also stone balustrades, stone heads, and stone faces everywhere. The Marquis, led by a torchbearer, makes his way to his private chambers,...	[ "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:_two_promises	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One year goes by, and Charles Darnay is now earning a living in England as a French tutor and translator. As a result of their various roles in the trial, Darnay, Sydney Carton, and Mr. Stryver have become friends of Dr. Manette and his daughter and frequently visit them. Darnay is in love with Lucie, but has not yet o...	[ "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:_a_companion_picture	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sydney Carton spends many long nights clearing up Mr. Stryver's legal matters before Stryver goes on his long vacation. Finally, on one such night after the work is complete, Mr. Stryver announces to Carton his intentions to marry. Mr. Stryver assumes that women find him tactful, ambitious, and successful and would be ...	[ "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:_the_fellow_of_delicacy	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before Stryver's vacation begins, he decides to propose to Lucie. He heads towards her house in Soho. On his way, he stops at Tellson's Bank to inform Mr. Lorry of his plans to marry Lucie. Mr. Lorry, on hearing the news, hints that Stryver will not be successful. Stryver is shocked at the suggestion and demands to kno...	[ "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:_a_fellow_of_no_delicacy	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carton is a frequent visitor at the Manette residence; during his visits, however, he is usually gloomy and pretends that he cares for nothing in life. In truth, he is obsessed with Lucie. He wanders to her house on countless nights when his drinking has brought no relief to his melancholy. Carton just wants to be near...	[ "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:_the_honest_tradesman	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jerry Cruncher sits on a stool outside Tellson's Bank watching the heavy traffic go by. He can make out some kind of funeral coming down the street. There is a great uproar, for a mob seems to object to the funeral. He tries to discover whose funeral it is and learns that it is for the police spy, Roger Cly, who had te...	[ "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:_knitting	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two men enter the wine shop in St. Antoine. One is Monsieur Defarge; the other is the road-mender who had been questioned by the Marquis about the tall, thin man hanging from under his carriage. As they enter, one man drinks up his wine and departs; a second man does the same and is followed by a third. The road mender...	[ "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:_still_knitting	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Defarge informs his wife that another spy has been assigned to watch the neighborhood. His name is John Barsad, the man who had testified against Darnay in England. Defarge describes him as a man of forty, five feet nine inches tall, with black hair, a dark complexion, dark eyes, a thin, long, sallow face, and a crooke...	[ "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:_one_night	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the eve of her wedding day, Lucie is ecstatic and spends the entire evening with her father. As they sit in the courtyard, Lucie assures Dr. Manette that her love for Darnay will never replace or change the love she has for him. The Doctor is now happy about the marriage and states how fond he is of Darnay. One of h...	[ "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:_nine_days	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the morning of the wedding, Lucie, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Pross wait outside Dr. Manette's room. Inside, the Doctor and Charles Darnay are having a private conference. As they wait, Mr. Lorry cannot stop admiring Lucie; he grows sentimental and teary-eyed as he remembers how he brought her across from France when she w...	[ "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:_an_opinion	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the tenth day the doctor regains normality and has no memory of the past nine days. By speaking in the third person, Mr. Lorry informs the Doctor of his nine day relapse and that his daughter has not been told of this. He also tries to find out how this relapse occurred and if it will ever happen again. The Doctor a...	[ "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:_a_plea	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carton drops in to see the newlyweds as soon as they get back from their honeymoon. His habits, manner, and looks have not changed. He tells Darnay that he wishes they were friends and apologizes for the remarks he had made after the trial when he was drunk. Darnay assures him that he has forgotten all about it, especi...	[ "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:_echoing_footsteps	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is now 1789, eight years later. Life is pleasant for the Darnays. Both he and the Doctor are earning good money. Lucie and Darnay have a little girl who is also named Lucie; they also had a son who died young. Lucie often feels as though she will also die soon, but the feeling always passes. Lucie also constantly he...	[ "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:_the_sea_rises	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A week after the storming of the Bastille, Defarge enters the wine shop. He tells the others that Foulon, an aristocrat who faked his own death to protect himself, is still alive. Some villagers have found him hiding in the country and have brought him in for trial. As the drums start beating in the street, Madame Defa...	[ "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:_fire_rises	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A week after the storming of the Bastille, Defarge enters the wine shop. He tells the others that Foulon, an aristocrat who faked his own death to protect himself, is still alive. Some villagers have found him hiding in the country and have brought him in for trial. As the drums start beating in the street, Madame Defa...	[ "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:_drawn_to_the_loadstone_rock	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	For three years, the violent storm continues around the Bastille with the mob growing more unruly. Many of the aristocrats escape from France; those that do not escape are captured and killed by the guillotine. The king has been suspended from his office, and the government is in chaos and paralysis. The only real law ...	[ "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:_in_secret	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Darnays trip at the end of August, 1792, is very trying. The road between Calais and Paris is bad, and at every town-gate and village-taxing house, there are soldiers who stop and question him and all fellow travelers. While staying in a small town on the way to Paris, Darnay is awakened at night by a local official an...	[ "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:_the_grindstone	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tellson's Bank in Paris is in a wing of a large house. In front of it is a courtyard that is shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house had belonged to a nobleman who had fled France, running away from the troubles of his homeland. The house has been confiscated for use by the citizen-patriots...	[ "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:_the_shadow	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry is worried about compromising Tellson's Bank by sheltering the wife of a prisoner; he would gladly risk his own security and possessions for Lucie, but he cannot risk those of the bank. He considers going to Defarge, but decides against it. Instead, he confers with Lucie; she tells him of her father's plans o...	[ "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:_calm_in_a_storm	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After four days, Dr. Manette finally returns from La Force. He tells of the horrors committed there by the mob and the thousands of people that have been killed. He has seen the self-appointed tribunal, which summarily tries the prisoners and sentences them to death. In an effort to save Darnay, he presents himself to ...	[ "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:_the_wood_sawyer	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One year and three months have passed since Darnay's initial imprisonment. Lucie arranges her Parisian household as if her husband were there in hopes that he will soon appear. She also lives in fear. Every day she sees the tumbrels loaded with the condemned on their way to the guillotine and prays that Darnay is not i...	[ "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:_triumph	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Darnay is brought in front of the dreaded Tribunal. Looking at the jury and the onlookers, he feels as though the usual order has been reversed and that now the felons are trying the honest men. The men in the courtroom are armed with various weapons while the women are wearing knives and knitting. Darnay notices Defar...	[ "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:_a_knock_at_the_door	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Though Darnay is safe for the moment, Lucie feels apprehensive and is still fearful he will be killed. Lucie and her husband stay in the lodge, living modestly. Not wanting to attract attention, they send Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher to do the shopping for the family. They wonder how soon it will be safe for them to l...	[ "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:_a_hand_at_cards	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Unconscious of the new developments that have taken place at the lodge, Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher wind their way through narrow streets in search of food. They make a few purchases and turn into a wine shop. Miss Pross is startled to see her brother Solomon. Jerry Cruncher recognizes him as John Barsad, the police ...	[ "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:_the_game_made	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Lorry is angry that Jerry Cruncher is using his job at Tellson's Bank as a cover for his body snatching and threatens to have him discharged. Cruncher informs him that a great deal of other respectable clients, like surgeons, undertakers, and sextons, will be implicated too. He also adds that losing his job at Tell...	[ "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_chapter_10:_the_substance_of_the_shadow	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One day in 1757, Dr. Manette walks down a street when he is stopped by a carriage. Inside are two men, apparently twins, who need his service. They do not disclose who they are and merely reveal that they are of high birth. The Doctor is taken by them to a solitary house in the countryside. Upstairs he finds a deliriou...	[ "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:_dusk	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lucie is completely shocked by the guilty verdict; but she nobly lifts herself out of her stupor because she knows she has to stand by Darnay in his misery rather than augment it. She pleads with his jailer to let her embrace her husband for the last time. Barsad allows her to do so. Darnay blesses his wife and assures...	[ "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:_darkness	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sydney Carton enters the wine-shop of the Defarges and deliberately speaks in bad, broken French. They notice his resemblance to Darnay and assume that he cannot understand them. They continue their argument. Madame Defarge wants the Doctor, Lucie, and the child to be guillotined. Defarge, however, draws the line with ...	[ "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:_fifty_two	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the black prison of the Conciergerie, fifty-two prisoners await their doom. Among them is a former general of seventy and a young seamstress of twenty. Darnay spends his last evening reconciling himself to his fate and writing letters to Lucie, Dr. Manette, and Mr. Lorry. He does not think of Carton even once. He go...	[ "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:_the_knitting_done	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While Darnay is being rescued, Madame Defarge sits in conference with The Vengeance and Jacques Three in the wood-sawyer's shop. She has decided to go ahead with the prosecution of Darnay's family without her husband's knowledge. She declares her intention of strengthening her case against Lucie by visiting her immedia...	[ "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:_the_footsteps_die_out_forever	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The fifty-two prisoners are carried in six tumbrels that grind through the cobbled streets of Paris. Carton stands at the back of the third tumbrel with his head bent down, trying to ignore the roar of the crowd. He talks to the young and frightened seamstress while holding her hand. He notices that in front of the gui...	[ "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...
835	284_book_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel begins in New York's Grand Central Station, with Lawrence Selden suddenly "refreshed by the sight" of the beautiful Miss Lily Bart. He wonders what she's doing there and realizes that he's always intrigued by her presence. Selden deliberately strolls past her to see if she'll say hello or not. She does. Selde...	[ "Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central\nStation his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.", "It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from\na hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at\nthat season? If she had...
836	284_book_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Once safely alone in the cab, Lily berates herself for her indiscretion with Selden. Mostly, she thinks it's ridiculous that a woman can't enjoy herself for two seconds without getting in trouble for it. Then, she realizes she's a fool for not just telling Rosedale the truth. By making up that story about her dress-mak...	[ "In the hansom she leaned back with a sigh. Why must a girl pay so dearly\nfor her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing\nwithout having to screen it behind a structure of artifice? She had\nyielded to a passing impulse in going to Lawrence Selden's rooms, and it\nwas so seldom that she ...
837	284_book_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That night, Lily plays bridge at Bellomont into the wee hours of the morning. As she heads up to bed, she looks back at the scene of opulence downstairs: women in expensive dresses and jewels, hunting hounds lounging about the floor, gilded furnishings, etc. Sometimes, she delights in seeing scenes like this, but, some...	[ "Bridge at Bellomont usually lasted till the small hours; and when Lily\nwent to bed that night she had played too long for her own good.", "Feeling no desire for the self-communion which awaited her in her room,\nshe lingered on the broad stairway, looking down into the hall below,\nwhere the last card-players w...
838	284_book_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When she wakes the next morning, Lily finds a note from Mrs. Trenor asking her to help out with some "tiresome things" since Mrs. Trenor's secretary is away. Lily drags herself out of bed and downstairs. We get a brief description of Mrs. Trenor as the ultimate hostess, with her husband's massive bank account to back u...	[ "The next morning, on her breakfast tray, Miss Bart found a note from her\nhostess.", "\"Dearest Lily,\" it ran, \"if it is not too much of a bore to be down by\nten, will you come to my sitting-room to help me with some tiresome\nthings?\"", "Lily tossed aside the note and subsided on her pillows with a sigh. ...
839	284_book_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's Sunday at Bellomont. As per routine, a little omnibus comes around and picks up the church-goers to bring them down the road for the service a mile away. Lily decides this is the morning to officially seal the deal with Gryce. She's been playing the part of the wholesome little angel, and she figures that when Per...	[ "The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual\nappearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the\nlittle church at the gates. Whether any one got into the omnibus or not\nwas a matter of secondary importance, since by standing there it not only\nbore witness to the ...
840	284_book_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily is taking a walk around Bellomont with Selden. Lily is conflicted; she feels excited at "escaping" the gilded cage of society with Selden, but she also feels scared at the risk of losing Percy. She wonders briefly if she feels love for Selden. She's only been in love once before, with a man named Herbert Melson, w...	[ "The afternoon was perfect. A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the\nglitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the\nbrightness without dulling it.", "In the woody hollows of the park there was already a faint chill; but as\nthe ground rose the air grew lighter, and ascending the l...
841	284_book_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Trenor berates Lily for being completely flaky and indecisive. Because Lily took Selden away from Bertha, Bertha retaliated and turned Percy against Lily by giving him all the dirt on her. She told him how Lily gambles, smokes, and doesn't go to church. Now, Percy has left Bellomont, essentially to run away from L...	[ "It spoke much for the depth of Mrs. Trenor's friendship that her voice,\nin admonishing Miss Bart, took the same note of personal despair as if\nshe had been lamenting the collapse of a house-party.", "\"All I can say is, Lily, that I can't make you out!\" She leaned back,\nsighing, in the morning abandon of lac...
842	284_book_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Next thing we know, Lily's getting a thousand dollar check from Gus Trenor. Score. Lily makes some payments to the dressmakers, shoemakers, etc. she owes, but doesn't stop herself from putting in some new orders, too. Meanwhile, it's easy to keep Gus happy and on her side. All she has to do is laugh at his jokes and pr...	[ "The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted\nscrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact\ndegree to which it effaced her debts.", "The transaction had justified itself by its results: she saw now how\nabsurd it would have been to let any primitive scruple deprive ...
843	284_book_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily is now back living with her aunt, Mrs. Peniston, who is redecorating with zeal. When Lily returns from the wedding, she passes a charwoman cleaning the stairs who doesn't move to let her by. Lily firmly asks the woman to move, and realizes that it is the same charwoman from the Benedick, who gave her such a sullen...	[ "In Mrs. Peniston's youth, fashion had returned to town in October;\ntherefore on the tenth day of the month the blinds of her Fifth Avenue\nresidence were drawn up, and the eyes of the Dying Gladiator in bronze\nwho occupied the drawing-room window resumed their survey of that\ndeserted thoroughfare.", "The firs...
844	284_book_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Autumn continues, and Lily remains with Mrs. Peniston. She spends all the money she keeps getting from Gus, without any forethought or squirreling some away for a rainy day. One day, while she is out shopping , Lily runs into Gerty Farish. Gerty has just come from a meeting regarding her latest philanthropic cause, a G...	[ "The autumn dragged on monotonously. Miss Bart had received one or two\nnotes from Judy Trenor, reproaching her for not returning to Bellomont;\nbut she replied evasively, alleging the obligation to remain with her\naunt. In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence\nwith Mrs. Peniston, and on...
845	284_book_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The holidays end and the real social season opens. Mrs. Peniston enjoys watching from above and commenting on the goings-on. The fall didn't go well on Wall Street, so everyone "feels poor" except for Welly Bry and Simon Rosedale. Because of this distinction, Rosedale has become particularly popular lately. Mrs. Fisher...	[ "Meanwhile the holidays had gone by and the season was beginning. Fifth\nAvenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the\nfashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and\noutspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality. Other\ntributary currents crossed the ma...
846	284_book_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily has become quite good friends with Bertha Dorset, mostly because Ned Silverton moved away from Carry Fisher and toward Bertha, which means Bertha needs someone to distract her husband while she flirts with the young poet. Lily is fine with this - not because she's getting any money out of George, but because of th...	[ "Miss Bart had in fact been treading a devious way, and none of her\ncritics could have been more alive to the fact than herself; but she had\na fatalistic sense of being drawn from one wrong turning to another,\nwithout ever perceiving the right road till it was too late to take it.", "Lily, who considered herse...
847	284_book_1,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily wakes up the day after the party to find two notes for her. One is from Mrs. Trenor, who wants to see Lily that afternoon. The next is from Selden, who was called away on business but would like to see her the following evening. Lily is irritated by Selden's note - it makes her life more complicated. Also, she's m...	[ "Lily woke from happy dreams to find two notes at her bedside.", "One was from Mrs. Trenor, who announced that she was coming to town that\nafternoon for a flying visit, and hoped Miss Bart would be able to dine\nwith her. The other was from Selden. He wrote briefly that an important\ncase called him to Albany, w...
848	284_book_1,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now, we go back in time to the morning of this same tumultuous day - the morning after the living portrait party at the Brys' place. This time we focus on Gerty Farish, who wakes up in a fantastic mood. Said mood stems largely from the fact that she has a huge crush on Selden. He's been spending a lot of time with her ...	[ "Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke\nfrom dreams as happy as Lily's. If they were less vivid in hue, more\nsubdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they\nwere for that very reason better suited to her mental vision. Such\nflashes of joy as Lily moved in ...
849	284_book_1,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Lily wakes up the next morning, she is more herself again. Which means that she realizes that she spent the night in a cheap bed in an inexpensive and poorly-furnished apartment - and there's no maid to pick up after her. She quickly says her thank-yous to Gerty, explains that she was not herself after a panic att...	[ "When Lily woke she had the bed to herself, and the winter light was in\nthe room.", "She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then\nmemory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver. In the cold\nslant of light reflected from the back wall of a neighbouring building,\nshe saw her even...
850	284_book_2,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Selden has just come from business with a client in Paris and is now relaxing for a week in Monte Carlo. It's mid-April, and while strolling about Selden bumps into Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Jack Stepney , and Mrs. Wellington Bry. They're all standing around arguing over where they should have lunch. While they continue the lu...	[ "It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more\nthan any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each\nman's humour. His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of\nwelcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and\nfacility. So frank an app...
851	284_book_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Lily considers her position with the Dorsets. She feels she was lucky to get their invitation when she did. Away from New York, she no longer feels as though she's under Gus Trenor's obligation for the nine grand she owes. Distance makes it all seem irrelevant.... She's also psyched that she's been so...	[ "Miss Bart, emerging late the next morning from her cabin, found herself\nalone on the deck of the Sabrina. The cushioned chairs, disposed\nexpectantly under the wide awning, showed no signs of recent occupancy,\nand she presently learned from a steward that Mrs. Dorset had not yet\nappeared, and that the gentlemen...
852	284_book_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Selden receives a telegram from Lily asking for help in this Dorset mess. He wishes to help avert a scandal, and especially doesn't want Lily involved in "the public washing of the Dorset linen." He meets with Dorset and tells him to appear non-committal to one course of action or the other when in public. Then, he sen...	[ "Miss Bart's telegram caught Lawrence Selden at the door of his hotel; and\nhaving read it, he turned back to wait for Dorset. The message\nnecessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently\nheard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. On the whole he was\nsurprised; for though he had p...
853	284_book_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	We're back in New York, two weeks after Lily's return from Europe. Mrs. Peniston has died, and everyone has gathered to hear the reading of her will. Her estate, valued at about four hundred thousand dollars, is assumed to be left to Lily. Unfortunately for our protagonist, Mrs. Peniston, having heard of Lily's scandal...	[ "The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the\noppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her\nassembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement. They were\nall there: Van Alstynes, Stepneys and Melsons--even a stray Peniston or\ntwo, indicating, by a greater la...
854	284_book_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Lily leaves Grace's, she feels completely hopeless. It's a ripe opportunity for Mrs. Fisher to pull up in a carriage and tell Lily that she should come away with her to dinner at the Gormers'. Remember that Mrs. Fisher became their social coordinator after she left the Brys in Monte Carlo. The Gormers are sort of se...	[ "It seemed to Lily, as Mrs. Peniston's door closed on her, that she was\ntaking a final leave of her old life. The future stretched before her\ndull and bare as the deserted length of Fifth Avenue, and opportunities\nshowed as meagrely as the few cabs trailing in quest of fares that did\nnot come. The completeness ...
855	284_book_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While visiting the Gormers' country-house on Long Island, Lily goes on a long stroll by herself and bumps into George Dorset. Lily wants nothing to do with George; she says it's inappropriate for them to meet under any circumstances because of the rumors. George tries to apologize for what happened in Monte Carlo, clai...	[ "As became persons of their rising consequence, the Gormers were engaged\nin building a country-house on Long Island; and it was a part of Miss\nBart's duty to attend her hostess on frequent visits of inspection to the\nnew estate. There, while Mrs. Gormer plunged into problems of lighting\nand sanitation, Lily had...
856	284_book_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily has seen Rosedale a few times since her talk with Mrs. Fisher, and it's clear to her that he "admires" her more than ever. While visiting Mrs. Fisher at the Brys' house, Lily bumps into Simon Rosedale again. She observes him with the hostess's daughter and, at seeing him play the paternal role, realizes that he's ...	[ "The light projected on the situation by Mrs. Fisher had the cheerless\ndistinctness of a winter dawn. It outlined the facts with a cold\nprecision unmodified by shade or colour, and refracted, as it were, from\nthe blank walls of the surrounding limitations: she had opened windows\nfrom which no sky was ever visib...
857	284_book_2,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily attends a horse show with Mrs. Gormer, but she can tell that she has "failed to make herself indispensable" and that Mrs. Gormer is getting ready to sacrifice Lily so she can be friends with Bertha. Lily realizes that, if she took Rosedale's offer, she could easily best Bertha Dorset. She starts dreadfully missing...	[ "The autumn days declined to winter. Once more the leisure world was in\ntransition between country and town, and Fifth Avenue, still deserted at\nthe week-end, showed from Monday to Friday a broadening stream of\ncarriages between house-fronts gradually restored to consciousness.", "The Horse Show, some two week...
858	284_book_2,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At taking a job as secretary to Mrs. Norma Hatch, Lily at first feels relief. She gets to stay in a fancy hotel once again and be waited on by servants. Mrs. Hatch came from the West, brought a lot of money with her, and is trying to break into the New York social scene. She's been divorced more than once, and Mrs. Fis...	[ "When Lily woke on the morning after her translation to the Emporium\nHotel, her first feeling was one of purely physical satisfaction. The\nforce of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more\nin a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across a spacious sunlit room at a\nbreakfast-table set inviting...
859	284_book_2,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily is working as a milliner and getting reprimanded by the forewoman for sewing the spangles onto a hat crookedly. She's in a small room with about twenty other working women. It seems that Lily separated from Mrs. Hatch a few weeks after Selden visited. She went back to Gerty, who convinced her that she could use he...	[ "\"Look at those spangles, Miss Bart--every one of 'em sewed on crooked.\"", "The tall forewoman, a pinched perpendicular figure, dropped the condemned\nstructure of wire and net on the table at Lily's side, and passed on to\nthe next figure in the line.", "There were twenty of them in the work-room, their fagg...
860	284_book_2,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's now late April. Lily is walking by Fifth Avenue and takes a moment to observe the scene. She sees Mrs. Van Osburgh with Percy and his new son. She also spots Mrs. Hatch, Judy Trenor, and Lady Skiddaw. Lily has been fired recently from her job at Madam Regina's, so she returns home with nothing to do. She's not ups...	[ "Lily, lingering for a moment on the corner, looked out on the afternoon\nspectacle of Fifth Avenue. It was a day in late April, and the sweetness\nof spring was in the air. It mitigated the ugliness of the long crowded\nthoroughfare, blurred the gaunt roof-lines, threw a mauve veil over the\ndiscouraging perspecti...
861	284_book_2,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sitting in Selden's easy chair and looking around his flat, Lily realizes that everything looks exactly as it did that day they had tea together so long ago . Finally, she speaks; she tells Selden that she's sorry for what she said to him that day he came to see her at Mrs. Hatch's. Selden responds that he is sorry, to...	[ "The library looked as she had pictured it. The green-shaded lamps made\ntranquil circles of light in the gathering dusk, a little fire flickered\non the hearth, and Selden's easy-chair, which stood near it, had been\npushed aside when he rose to admit her.", "He had checked his first movement of surprise, and st...
862	284_book_2,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily, more weary than ever, begins her walk home. She has nothing to look forward to but the bottle of chloral by her bedside. She knows that lately it hasn't been as effective as it used to. Someone recognizes Lily and stops her. It turns out to be a young woman named Nettie Struther, who used to belong to Gerty Faris...	[ "The street-lamps were lit, but the rain had ceased, and there was a\nmomentary revival of light in the upper sky. Lily walked on unconscious\nof her surroundings. She was still treading the buoyant ether which\nemanates from the high moments of life. But gradually it shrank away from\nher and she felt the dull pav...
863	284_book_2,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Selden wakes early the next morning, elated. He's decided that, once again, he loves Lily Bart and wants to marry her. At 9am, he makes his way over to her boarding house. Looking up at the windows from the outside, he decides that the sill with the flower pot on it must be hers, as it's the only attractive aesthetic t...	[ "The next morning rose mild and bright, with a promise of summer in the\nair. The sunlight slanted joyously down Lily's street, mellowed the\nblistered house-front, gilded the paintless railings of the door-step,\nand struck prismatic glories from the panes of her darkened window.", "When such a day coincides wit...
835	284_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Set in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, the novel begins at Grand Central Station on a Monday afternoon in early September. At the train station, Lawrence Selden is approached by a casual acquaintance, Lily Bart. Lily has two hours to spend before her train arrives, and recruits Selden to ent...	[ "Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central\nStation his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.", "It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from\na hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at\nthat season? If she had...
836	284_chapter_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Riding in the hansom on the return trip to Grand Central Station, Lily considers the societal dictates that have forced her to lie to Rosedale. She believes that she has erred in three ways. The first was to impulsively visit Selden's apartment. The second was to lie to Rosedale; she considers lying better than telling...	[ "In the hansom she leaned back with a sigh. Why must a girl pay so dearly\nfor her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing\nwithout having to screen it behind a structure of artifice? She had\nyielded to a passing impulse in going to Lawrence Selden's rooms, and it\nwas so seldom that she ...
837	284_chapter_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After an evening of playing bridge at the Trenors', Lily retires to her room. She stops on the stairs to take in the opulent Trenor house, and notices Bertha engaging Gryce in conversation. She envies the married Bertha for her ability to talk to men and discard them with no regard. Because Lily and Gryce are both marr...	[ "Bridge at Bellomont usually lasted till the small hours; and when Lily\nwent to bed that night she had played too long for her own good.", "Feeling no desire for the self-communion which awaited her in her room,\nshe lingered on the broad stairway, looking down into the hall below,\nwhere the last card-players w...
838	284_chapter_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following morning, Lily is summoned by Judy to assist her in some secretarial duties. Judy gossips with Lily about the twice-divorced Carry Fisher and Lady Cressida Raith. The latter woman is married to a London clergyman, and divides her time between gardening and charity work in the slums of London's East End. Ju...	[ "The next morning, on her breakfast tray, Miss Bart found a note from her\nhostess.", "\"Dearest Lily,\" it ran, \"if it is not too much of a bore to be down by\nten, will you come to my sitting-room to help me with some tiresome\nthings?\"", "Lily tossed aside the note and subsided on her pillows with a sigh. ...
839	284_chapter_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily attempts to further her designs on Gryce by accompanying the Trenors' daughters to church. She believes that Gryce will see how beautiful she looks while peering through long eyelashes over a hymnal and wearing a modest gray dress, and will fall hopelessly in love with her. In an act of rebellion intended to incre...	[ "The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual\nappearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the\nlittle church at the gates. Whether any one got into the omnibus or not\nwas a matter of secondary importance, since by standing there it not only\nbore witness to the ...
840	284_chapter_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter begins with Lily and Selden venturing out-of-doors for a prolonged conversation. The exhilaration she feels is compared to the only time Lily felt that she had been in love, with Herbert Melson. A man possessing good looks but little income, Melson eventually married an older sister of Gwen. Lily tempers he...	[ "The afternoon was perfect. A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the\nglitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the\nbrightness without dulling it.", "In the woody hollows of the park there was already a faint chill; but as\nthe ground rose the air grew lighter, and ascending the l...
841	284_chapter_vii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily returns to the Trenor household to discover that Gryce has departed. Judy tells Lily that Bertha retaliated against Lily for stealing Selden's attention by telling ruinous stories about Lily to Gryce. These stories include Lily's borrowing money to repay a gambling debt, as well as stories about her previous suito...	[ "It spoke much for the depth of Mrs. Trenor's friendship that her voice,\nin admonishing Miss Bart, took the same note of personal despair as if\nshe had been lamenting the collapse of a house-party.", "\"All I can say is, Lily, that I can't make you out!\" She leaned back,\nsighing, in the morning abandon of lac...
864	284_chapters_8-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily receives the first dividend -- one thousand dollars -- from the investment made on her behalf by Trenor. Trenor tells Lily that she has already earned five thousand dollars from a tip he received from Rosedale. Lily continues to humor Trenor, which she believes is enough to repay him for his efforts. Her new frien...	[ "The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted\nscrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact\ndegree to which it effaced her debts.", "The transaction had justified itself by its results: she saw now how\nabsurd it would have been to let any primitive scruple deprive ...
844	284_chapter_x	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily spends the autumn with Mrs. Peniston, enjoying the money she has earned from Trenor's investments. She gives money to Gerty's favorite charity, although she exhibits pride in her action. Upon returning from Thanksgiving vacation in the Adirondack Mountains, Lily is visited by Rosedale. He invites her to the opera,...	[ "The autumn dragged on monotonously. Miss Bart had received one or two\nnotes from Judy Trenor, reproaching her for not returning to Bellomont;\nbut she replied evasively, alleging the obligation to remain with her\naunt. In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence\nwith Mrs. Peniston, and on...
865	284_chapters_11-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Wall Street hits a slump during the holiday season, and all investors, excepting Rosedale and Wellington Bry, suffer financial losses. Rosedale is rumored to have doubled his fortune, thus smoothing his path to acceptance in New York society. He has been friendly with Carry Fisher, who has been beneficial in introducin...	[ "Meanwhile the holidays had gone by and the season was beginning. Fifth\nAvenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the\nfashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and\noutspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality. Other\ntributary currents crossed the ma...
847	284_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily awakens to find two messages at her bedside. She assumes both are related to her success from the previous evening. The first letter is from Selden, requesting to see her. She fears that Selden will once again propose marriage to her, but sends a reply consenting to meet him the following day. The second letter is...	[ "Lily woke from happy dreams to find two notes at her bedside.", "One was from Mrs. Trenor, who announced that she was coming to town that\nafternoon for a flying visit, and hoped Miss Bart would be able to dine\nwith her. The other was from Selden. He wrote briefly that an important\ncase called him to Albany, w...
848	284_chapter_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter begins in Gerty's apartment where Gerty has spent the night dreaming after realizing that she has fallen in love with Selden. The narrator explains Selden's upbringing. His parents' lack of wealth was balanced by their happiness with each other. Consequently, Selden has learned to appreciate a simple lifest...	[ "Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke\nfrom dreams as happy as Lily's. If they were less vivid in hue, more\nsubdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they\nwere for that very reason better suited to her mental vision. Such\nflashes of joy as Lily moved in ...
849	284_chapter_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily awakens in Gerty's bed the following morning. When Gerty enters the bedroom, the closeness the two women shared the evening before is dispelled. Gerty has phoned Mrs. Peniston to inform her as to Lily's whereabouts. Lily returns home to Mrs. Peniston. She determines that she will repay Trenor an amount that she es...	[ "When Lily woke she had the bed to herself, and the winter light was in\nthe room.", "She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then\nmemory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver. In the cold\nslant of light reflected from the back wall of a neighbouring building,\nshe saw her even...
850	284_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter opens with Selden in Monte Carlo. He is accompanying the Stepneys, the Brys, Lord Hubert Dacey, and Carry. Selden is informed that Lily is also in Europe, where she is vacationing with the Dorsets, and that she has been causing a mild sensation. Carry tells Selden that Lily appears 10 years younger, and tha...	[ "It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more\nthan any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each\nman's humour. His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of\nwelcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and\nfacility. So frank an app...
851	284_chapter_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following morning, Lily awakens aboard the Dorsets' yacht, the Sabrina. She requests a meeting with Bertha but is rebuffed. Instead, Lily leaves the yacht to attend a breakfast with the Duchess of Beltshire. On her way to breakfast, Lily encounters Carry, who offers Lily the chance to replace her as the Brys' socia...	[ "Miss Bart, emerging late the next morning from her cabin, found herself\nalone on the deck of the Sabrina. The cushioned chairs, disposed\nexpectantly under the wide awning, showed no signs of recent occupancy,\nand she presently learned from a steward that Mrs. Dorset had not yet\nappeared, and that the gentlemen...
852	284_chapter_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Selden receives Lily's telegram requesting his intercession on behalf of the Dorsets. Selden meets with Dorset and fears the worst for Lily's reputation. Lily remains aboard the Sabrina despite the tension between the Dorsets and Bertha's harsh treatment of Lily. Lily goes to town and encounters Selden, who relates his...	[ "Miss Bart's telegram caught Lawrence Selden at the door of his hotel; and\nhaving read it, he turned back to wait for Dorset. The message\nnecessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently\nheard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. On the whole he was\nsurprised; for though he had p...
853	284_chapter_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily leaves France and, under the auspices of the Duchess, goes to London. While she is in London, the Dorsets, Brys, and Stepneys return to New York with their own versions of Lily's exploits in Europe. Upon her return from London, Lily is told that her aunt and benefactor, Mrs. Peniston, has died. At the reading of t...	[ "The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the\noppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her\nassembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement. They were\nall there: Van Alstynes, Stepneys and Melsons--even a stray Peniston or\ntwo, indicating, by a greater la...
854	284_chapter_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily leaves Mrs. Peniston's house and once again meets Carry. She tells Lily that she has resolved her differences with the Brys, and is once again employed by them as their social advisor. She suggests that Lily perform similar duties for Sam and Mattie Gormer, another nouveau riche couple who know nothing of Lily's p...	[ "It seemed to Lily, as Mrs. Peniston's door closed on her, that she was\ntaking a final leave of her old life. The future stretched before her\ndull and bare as the deserted length of Fifth Avenue, and opportunities\nshowed as meagrely as the few cabs trailing in quest of fares that did\nnot come. The completeness ...
855	284_chapter_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily continues to work for Mattie and assist in the Gormers' social ascendancy. The couple begins to build an estate near the Dorsets', prompting Mattie and Lily to visit the building site often. During one of their visits, Lily is approached by Dorset, who apologizes for the events in Europe. She treats him with disda...	[ "As became persons of their rising consequence, the Gormers were engaged\nin building a country-house on Long Island; and it was a part of Miss\nBart's duty to attend her hostess on frequent visits of inspection to the\nnew estate. There, while Mrs. Gormer plunged into problems of lighting\nand sanitation, Lily had...
866	284_chapters_7-8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While still visiting with Carry, Lily goes for a walk with Rosedale. Lily considers her past experiences of setting up courtships that never reach their fulfillment in engagement. She steels herself to not ruin her current opportunity with Rosedale. She tells Rosedale that she will marry him, despite the fact that he h...	[ "The light projected on the situation by Mrs. Fisher had the cheerless\ndistinctness of a winter dawn. It outlined the facts with a cold\nprecision unmodified by shade or colour, and refracted, as it were, from\nthe blank walls of the surrounding limitations: she had opened windows\nfrom which no sky was ever visib...
867	284_chapters_9-10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily is now working as secretary to the multiply divorced and wealthy socialite Mrs. Hatch at the Emporium Hotel. Hatch is the head of her social group, which includes Mr. Melville Stancy, Silverton, and Freddy Van Osburgh. Selden visits Lily at the Emporium; he is uneasy and makes inappropriately defensive comments. H...	[ "When Lily woke on the morning after her translation to the Emporium\nHotel, her first feeling was one of purely physical satisfaction. The\nforce of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more\nin a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across a spacious sunlit room at a\nbreakfast-table set inviting...
860	284_chapter_xi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily observes the traffic on Fifth Avenue, and sees Mrs. Van Osburgh, Evie, and the latter's new infant. She also sees Mrs. Hatch and Judy. Lily has been laid off from Mme. Regina's shop, a fate that she had anticipated. Rosedale visits Lily. He offers to loan her the money to repay Trenor, but she refuses, telling Ros...	[ "Lily, lingering for a moment on the corner, looked out on the afternoon\nspectacle of Fifth Avenue. It was a day in late April, and the sweetness\nof spring was in the air. It mitigated the ugliness of the long crowded\nthoroughfare, blurred the gaunt roof-lines, threw a mauve veil over the\ndiscouraging perspecti...
861	284_chapter_xii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily arrives in Selden's apartment and apologizes for the circumstances of their last meeting. Regardless, there is a distance between the two of them, a distance that Lily realizes is permanent. She admits her cowardice in turning down his offers of marriage, a cowardice borne out of her fear of living a less affluent...	[ "The library looked as she had pictured it. The green-shaded lamps made\ntranquil circles of light in the gathering dusk, a little fire flickered\non the hearth, and Selden's easy-chair, which stood near it, had been\npushed aside when he rose to admit her.", "He had checked his first movement of surprise, and st...
862	284_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On her way home, Lily takes a seat in Bryant Park. She encounters Nettie Crane Struther, the young woman from the Girls' Club who had been the beneficiary of Lily's charity. Nettie is married to a motor-man, and is the mother of an infant daughter whom she has named in honor of Lily. Lily retires to her boardinghouse, ...	[ "The street-lamps were lit, but the rain had ceased, and there was a\nmomentary revival of light in the upper sky. Lily walked on unconscious\nof her surroundings. She was still treading the buoyant ether which\nemanates from the high moments of life. But gradually it shrank away from\nher and she felt the dull pav...
863	284_chapter_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following morning, Selden decides to visit Lily. He has found the one word that he wishes to say to her. He arrives at her boardinghouse to find Gerty, who tells him that Lily is dead. Cognizant of Selden's true feelings for Lily, Gerty leaves him alone with Lily's body. He finds the check written to Trenor, which ...	[ "The next morning rose mild and bright, with a promise of summer in the\nair. The sunlight slanted joyously down Lily's street, mellowed the\nblistered house-front, gilded the paintless railings of the door-step,\nand struck prismatic glories from the panes of her darkened window.", "When such a day coincides wit...
868	284_chapters_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel opens in Grand Central Station, where the protagonist, Lily Bart, is waiting for a train to Bellomont, the home of Gus Trenor and his wife, Judy Trenor. As she waits, she is spotted by her friend Lawrence Selden. He invites her to have tea with him at his flat, the Benedick. Over tea they discuss a number of ...	[ "Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central\nStation his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.", "It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from\na hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at\nthat season? If she had...
869	284_chapters_4-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily, having spent the night at the Bellomont, is asked to join Mrs. Trenor in the morning to help her write some correspondence. Although Lily would rather not, she remembers that she is dependent on Mrs. Trenor for social standing and does not want to upset her. The two gossip extensively while they write dinner card...	[ "The next morning, on her breakfast tray, Miss Bart found a note from her\nhostess.", "\"Dearest Lily,\" it ran, \"if it is not too much of a bore to be down by\nten, will you come to my sitting-room to help me with some tiresome\nthings?\"", "Lily tossed aside the note and subsided on her pillows with a sigh. ...
870	284_chapters_7-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the Bellomont, Lily and Mrs. Trenor are gossiping as usual. Mrs. Trenor tells Lily that Percy Gryce has left Bellomont because he felt snubbed when Lily canceled her walk with him to spend time with Selden. Worse, Gryce's departure may have been influenced by Bertha Dorset, who told Gryce about the "skeletons" in Li...	[ "It spoke much for the depth of Mrs. Trenor's friendship that her voice,\nin admonishing Miss Bart, took the same note of personal despair as if\nshe had been lamenting the collapse of a house-party.", "\"All I can say is, Lily, that I can't make you out!\" She leaned back,\nsighing, in the morning abandon of lac...
871	284_chapters_10-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Spending the autumn at home rather than the Bellomont, Lily begins to save up her finances. She also takes interest in philanthropy after being introduced to charitable giving by Gerty Farish, something which will factor in more later in the novel. Meanwhile, Carry Fisher invites her on an outing to the Adirondack Moun...	[ "The autumn dragged on monotonously. Miss Bart had received one or two\nnotes from Judy Trenor, reproaching her for not returning to Bellomont;\nbut she replied evasively, alleging the obligation to remain with her\naunt. In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence\nwith Mrs. Peniston, and on...
872	284_chapters_13-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lily awakens to receive letters from Mrs. Trenor and Selden, both requesting a meeting with her. Although she is worried about Selden's desire to marry her, she agrees to meet with him at four the following afternoon. In the meantime, Lily goes to the New York home of Mrs. Trenor, where she is met by Gus Trenor. He tel...	[ "Lily woke from happy dreams to find two notes at her bedside.", "One was from Mrs. Trenor, who announced that she was coming to town that\nafternoon for a flying visit, and hoped Miss Bart would be able to dine\nwith her. The other was from Selden. He wrote briefly that an important\ncase called him to Albany, w...
873	284_chapters_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Book Two opens in Europe, where Selden is in Monte Carlo with Carry Fisher and some other less prominent people who appeared at the Bellomont. Also arriving in Monte Carlo are the Dorsets , Ned Silverton, and Lily, who have been cruising on a yacht called the Sabrina all over the Mediterranean. Lily is looking her best...	[ "It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more\nthan any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each\nman's humour. His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of\nwelcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and\nfacility. So frank an app...

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