BOOK THE SECONDTHE GOLDEN THREADCHAPTER IFive Years LaterTELLSON'S Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand se...
CHAPTER 2A Sight`YOU know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?' said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger.`Ye-es, sir,' returned Jerry...
CHAPTER 3A DisappointmentMR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable...
CHAPTER 4CongratulatoryFROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was stra...
CHAPTER 5The JackalTHOSE were drinking days, and moot men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a m...
CHAPTER 6Hundreds of PeopleTHE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain ...
CHAPTER 7Monseigneur in TownMONSEIGNEUR, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Mon...
CHAPTER 8Monseigneur in the CountryA BEAUTIFUL landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where corn should have bee...
CHAPTER 9The Gorgon's HeadIT was a heavy mass of building, that ch?ateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone court-yard before it, and two...
TWO PROMISESMore months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the Fren...