A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Penn State University

A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
turnkey at the Conciergerie”
which he rested, as often as if he had fifty of those limbs,
“I am sometimes.”
and were trying them all; he examined his finger-nails with
“You can be when you choose”
a very questionable closeness of attention; and whenever Mr.
“I can pass in and out when I choose.”
Lorry’s eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind
Sydney Carton filled another glass with brandy, poured it of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which
slowly out upon the hearth, and watched it as it dropped. It is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on
being all spent, he said, rising:
perfect openness of character.
“So far, we have spoken before these two, because it was as “Jerry,” said Mr. Lorry. “Come here.”
well that the merits of the cards should not rest solely between
you and me. Come into the dark room here, and let shoulders in advance of him.
Mr. Cruncher came forward sideways, with one of his
us have one final word alone.”
“What have you been, besides a messenger”
After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look
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at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of
replying, “Agicultooral character.”
The Game Made
“My mind misgives me much,” said Mr. Lorry, angrily
shaking a forefinger at him, “that you have used the respectable
and great house of Tellson’s as a blind, and that you
WHILE SYDNEY CARTON AND THE SHEEP of the prisons were in
the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous description.
If you have, don’t expect me to befriend you when you
was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt
and mistrust. That honest tradesman’s manner of receiving get back to England. If you have, don’t expect me to keep
the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg on your secret. Tellson’s shall not be imposed upon.”
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