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A Tale of Two Cities Book 2 Chapter 21.
Stooping again to come out at the low-arched door, they left it burning, and retraced their way to the courtyard; seeming to recover their sense of hearing as they came down, until they were in the raging flood once more. A white flag from within the fortress, and a parley—this dimly perceptible through the raging storm, nothing audible in it—suddenly the sea rose immeasurably wider and higher, and swept Defarge of the wine-shop over the lowered drawbridge, past the massive stone outer walls, in among the eight great towers surrendered! Meanwhile, in Paris, the attack on the Bastille is brewing. The two narrative threads of the Manette household and the Defarge household met briefly at the beginning of the novel, and now they are due to meet again. Nor, how the lightest echo of their united home, directed by herself with such a wise and elegant thrift that it was more abundant than any waste, was music to her. When Lucie turns six, in 1789, events in France begin to affect the household.
Notes on Book 2, Chapter 21 from A Tale of Two Cities
He and Charles have apparently put their old romantic rivalry aside, and he has become a beloved uncle to the Darnay children. Manette was held unjustly for so many years. Through the fire and through the smoke—in the fire and in the smoke, for the sea cast him up against a cannon, and on the instant he became a cannonier—Defarge of the wine-shop worked like a manful soldier, Two fierce hours. Both children have been especially fond of Carton, who visits a few times each year. Lo, Miss Pross, in harness of string, awakening the echoes, as an unruly charger, whip-corrected, snorting and pawing the earth under the plane-tree in the garden! Before he dies, Lucie's son asks his mother to kiss Carton for him.
The flag was barely visible through the battle, though, and nothing could be heard over the sounds of the battle. All around outside, too, it beat the walls with a deep, hoarse roar, from which, occasionally, some partial shouts of tumult broke and leaped into the air like spray. Manette, who we remember from Book 1. He takes Charles aside and asks him to forget the fact that he ever said that he didn't like him. Seven prisoners are released and seven guards are beheaded.
Defarge knocks on the walls until he finds the hiding place of a document, which he removes before the Bastille is destroyed. He assumes that his gesture of handing over his title will make him welcomed by the revolutionaries. Sydney is a beloved uncle but also kind of a pathetic figure, clearly still wanting to live Charles' life but settling for the next best thing. Their three heads had been close together during this brief discourse, and it had been as much as they could do to hear one another, even then: so tremendous was the noise of the living ocean, in its irruption into the Fortress, and its inundation of the courts and passages and staircases. After he's already dead, Madame Defarge cuts off his head. Public executions are a form of entertainment. A white flag from within the fortress, and a parley—this dimly perceptible through the raging storm, nothing audible in it—suddenly the sea rose immeasurably wider and higher, and swept Defarge of the wine-shop over the lowered drawbridge, past the massive stone outer walls, in among the eight great towers surrendered! He conveys a verbal message from the recipient of the letter himself, though Mr.
Slight displacements of the raging sea, made by the falling wounded. The narrator takes pains to describe what a wonderful wife and mother Lucie is. Even when there were sounds of sorrow among the rest, they were not harsh nor cruel. She has an angelic baby boy who dies as a child, and she has a girl whom she names Lucie. Is the teaboard still there, Lucie? Miss Pross was like an unruly who had been tamed and domesticated, and snorted and pawed at the ground under the plane tree in the garden. The crowd changed its shape as people fell down wounded. Its force is so powerful that it draws the nails out of the vessel, shipwrecking it.
They successfully hang him on a lamppost the third time after the rope breaks the first two times. Carton continues to hold a special and privileged place in the family. Lorry asks Lucie to tell them again about the echoes about which she has her theory. Carton continues to work diligently for , with no ambition higher than remaining the lion's jackal. The setting in which Dickens places his characters in is itself the locus of conflict, rather than the characters themselves. Then there was one deep ditch, a single drawbridge, huge stone walls, eight large towers, cannon, muskets, fire, and smoke to contend with. Fluttering hopes and doubts—hopes, of a love as yet unknown to her: doubts, of her remaining upon earth, to enjoy that new delight—divided her breast.
Darnay has been accused of treason and faces being drawn and quartered if convicted. The contrast between the living situations of the poor and the rich is one of the reasons why it is both the best and worst of times. Interestingly, the one thing capable of elevating the sensitivities of the crowd is the sight of Lucie Manette's concern and pity for the prisoner. The Echoes rarely answered to the actual tread of Sydney Carton. The chateau where Monseigneur had lived is on fire. Cannon, muskets, fire and smoke; but, still the deep ditch, the single drawbridge, the massive stone walls, and the eight great towers. The fire rages; it burns the chateau to the ground and spreads to the forest.
Lorry agrees, but adds that they don't know why. They bring the officer out to the mob, who beat and stab him. They all carried different weapons, but they were alike in their hunger for revenge. They have had two children during that time, a boy and a girl. Lucie faints and is taken out of the courthouse.
This is a pretty sweet gig for Jerry, especially when he learns of the trial that's underway. There is an explosion of blood, screams. That time passed, and her little Lucie lay on her bosom. He hides on his roof behind a stack of chimneys until the people finally disperse. One explains that he has been walking for two straight days and asks the road-mender to wake him when he is done working.
