A Tale of Two Cities (1989) - full transcript

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i Alexandre Manette

Alexandre Manette physician

physician I Alexandre Manette physician

innocent prisoner of cell one hundred

and five North Tower the Bastille and

not spoken of do this day in my in

terrible agony denounce the brothers

even old who brought me here to my grave



to be seen and not spoken or I denounced

them to heaven and who else i denounce

them and their descendants to the last

of their ray

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I've never seen him

all my life I've believed he was dead my

father was dead it would be his ghost

not him miss Manette Lucy please don't

think like that he has been found he's

free married for 18 years but alive

recalled to life

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like starving dogs yes that's what they

are the paste of betting a mouse

yes pal what are you doing there

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we come not yet but it will come

take care what you say and who hears you

but it will come it is coming you can be

sure earthquake fire

Tara

blood it is all coming

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we're restful humans we mustn't delay

long not here and not in tennis not

until we have a safely home in England

but it is not free why must everything

this is secretive it is how things are

here to remain a privilege we're ready

to sign a piece of paper send some poor

wretch into the Oblivion of a prison for

any length of time it's it's you just

once know why your father was a free

people or why so long concealed and why

released as your sister Arthur and

dangerous I've known the boldest people

afraid to speak of these things in the

whisper I'm fortunate that I represent

Tilson's Bank which has a special

standing in French commercial affairs

till since our chests appear that

position gives me a greater freedom of

conduct in Paris and most other many

business it makes it possible for me to

perform this duty to you and to your

father

but lately even I avoid mention of those

secretly dangerous things it is enough

that we accomplish what we have to do I

to identify in you you see my dear child

to restore him comfort him love him this

poor round the gentleman where is my

father now in the house of an old sim or

in truth a young servant the man was a

new youth when Doctor Manette

disappeared died he is recalled to life

it's a pity there's not a barrel broken

every day cup of wine is rare for most

of your neighbors I know that Jack they

drank like noble men today would you say

so of course because they took what they

wanted

I saw bright noble men for a day well

said Jack you can joke about the

nobility of satin twang let me name you

the great noble families of our district

cold dirt sickness won't hunger those

are the noble men who rule here it won't

always be so oh no Jack are the right

good evening are you Ernest Defarge that

is my name sir I am Jarvis lorry of

Tellson's bank in London I think you are

expecting me and this young lady tell me

did you see some likeness to the wife of

dr. Alexander Manette the likeness is

very close may I ask how is mad a minute

my mother died many years ago how is my

father greatly changed yes changed

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all right I'm afraid afraid of him the

worst will soon be over

think of the virtue pray to you

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leave us now boys we have business here

something

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do you make a show doctor manette I show

him to a chosen few who why men of my

own mind men I think should know not for

pleasure for the future

you keep him locked up still in prison

for his own good

those who brought him to me warned me

not to leave his door open people who

have been locked up for so long have

been known to rave even tear themselves

to pieces in fear if the key isn't

turned on him is it possible many such

things are possible here and are done

every day I must warn him you're here

are you ready

the day still hard at work

you have visitors here is a gentleman

who knows a well-made shoe when he sees

one show him that one take it sir do you

know me tell the gentleman what kind of

shoe it is a young lady walking shoe

tell him you made it

tell him your name 105 North Tower

have you no other name 105 North Tower

not a minute please look at me they

think for a moment you remembered me but

or something of the past because of me I

was your banker and have no friend I

looked after your business affairs for

you and your English wife they took your

baby daughter to England

don't a minute please

look at me

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let me have my work I taught myself I

asked if I could come to be - yeah

it is the same you are the same but it

can't be who are you

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don't you feel it in the air you know

what's coming on my side thank you no

but all three is company on last one

because it's a treason case we're going

through an asteroid that's a rarity that

is what they'll do to my son

Barbara's but it's the law what he'll do

if we drawn on a hurdle to be halfing

then if we take him down while his life

and sliced before his own face then is

in size will be taken out and burn while

he looks on then his head will be

chopped off and he'll be kind to focus

and that's portrait my son that's the

sentence to thank it would be things

like they're finding beauty don't you be

afraid 11 the Old Bailey don't go in

much for not guilty

the people don't pay their money for

that my son yeah Bailey cost more than

the madhouse yeah that's the dog we want

but we don't pay because we've got a

paper listen to some Tilson's attending

one mr. Jarvis lorry

Oh Stan all persons having anything to

do before my laws the Kings justices

draw near and give attendance

mr. Attorney General you may proceed

members of the jury I have to inform you

that the prisoner before you though yarn

in years is old in the treasonable

practices which now must claim the

forfeit of his life his treachery

towards our Sovereign Lord the king by

reason of his passing secret information

to assist the King of France is not a

matter of a correspondence of today or

of yesterday or even of last year what

of the year before it is certain that

the prisoner has for much longer than

that been in the habit of passing and

repassing between England and France and

making those journeys on secret business

of which is unable and indeed refuses to

give an honest account witnesses and

documents will show that the prisoner

Charles Darnay has been furnished with

lists of His Majesty's forces and of

their D position both by sea and land

and that he has habitually conveyed such

information to a foreign power that

these documents cannot be proved to have

been in the prisoners own handwriting

assists the prosecution's case that he

has been artful in his precautions

members of the jury I know

you are a loyal and responsible jury who

will do your duty to your king and

country and not shrink from the dread

but just consequences of the only true

verdict consistent with these

treacherous misdeeds he is guilty make

an interview your first witness mr.

Attorney General

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at the court this former servant will

swear that he found the military papers

by accident while arranging Donna's

clothes at his rules and again while

traveling to France he saw it as the

duty of a patriot to lay information

it sees my duty as a patriot that I have

given you this information Thank You mr.

Klein mr. Stryver for the prisoner do

you wish to cross-examine the witness I

think so mr. cly humble and virtuous sir

these papers you say you found by

accident you put them there yourself

didn't you oh no sir

God's my judge sir begging your pardon

my lord of course you did

paid for this kind of work Archer oh no

sir I swear Switzer stole a silver

teapot once didn't you never sir mustard

well it wasn't he places

I call miss Lucie Manette miss Manette

look at the prisoner you know yes sir

when did you first see him on a package

ship from cali on a november night 5

years ago yes sir recall this meeting

when the gentleman came on board if you

mean the prisoner say the prisoner when

the prisoner came on board he noticed

that my father was in a very weak state

of health is there gentlemen your father

I am sir you have recovered your health

they have mm-hmm I was afraid to take

him out of the air and had tried to make

a bed for him on the deck but did not

know how best to do it well how to

shelter him from the bad weather and mr.

Darnay the prisoner did it for me with

great gentleness I was very grateful to

him is that all mr. attorney-general no

ma no did he come on board alone no sir

well two French gentlemen were with him

conferring with him yes sir

until it was time for the package to set

sail then the French gentleman returned

to shore yes sir with papers handed to

them by the prisoner

with papers miss manette the work papers

of some sort like these I can't say the

same shape and size possibly Oh like

these I will not repay mr. Donny by

doing him harm here today you will give

the evidence which it is your duty to

give which you must give have you met

the prisoner since that night yes sir

on a few occasions well he has called at

our house to inquire after my father's

well-being oh yes of course

to see your father

well mr. Stryver no I call John Barsad

what did you say your profession was mr.

parser gentleman you mean spy don't you

certainly not what do you live on my

property

you mean your wits tantrum of course not

where is this property how precisely

remember remember being in prison never

debtors prison

it's like misfortune like being kicked

downstairs for cheating at dice fellow

was drunk no more than another you laid

traps don't you hire yourself out for it

man traps don't understand

dov'è Dockyard this man who saw hazel

quite by chance the prisoner no you said

the prisoner couldn't mistake him why is

that

did he ever kick him

so you could never mistake the prisoner

no never see another man what do you

think it was the same now mr. Barsad

look at my learner friend here mr.

carmell look closely mr. cotton wouldn't

stand up my lord may mr. cotton remove

his wig yes

now are they not very like hmm what you

say now that you would always know the

prisoner

well mr. Basit gentlemen would you have

been so rash if you've known of this

likeness before how many more innocent

men will you never mistake mr. Stryver

do you propose that we now try mr.

carton for treason

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congratulations mr. John Lennon famous

is stupid hey thank you for my life is

describing my best for you my best is as

good as another man's spiritual infamous

prosecution no let's not get to succeed

on that account innocent men do hang

Rock their lives away to please and

protest in vain I was afraid for you mr.

Darnay my words seem to be so twisted

against my will I thought I was sending

you to your death it's in the past now

miss my lady I'm a free man and if I

weren't I would have only kind and

generous words to remember you by

you would have no clothes to reproach

yourself

my friends I'm sorry sometimes something

happens or something

he said trouble my memory sends me back

to my old life if I embarrassed you I

apologize

just a minute we are all walnut

speak for yourself mr. lawyer I have a

nice work to do yet you to come I am

sure you're the busiest of men sir but

Dr Manette and Miss Lucy must go home

very appreciate witness later than

problem

is my great good fortune that were alike

in history like me I don't think you

would if you were me you were me down

there like slightest cuz you change

places with me

disappointed Drudge you cares for no man

on earth knows that no man cares for me

much to be regretted you might have made

better use of your talents maybe so

maybe not but don't be too proud of your

server face you don't know what it may

come to I'll give it to you in plain

words I hate you because of the way

those pretty eyes look at you you'll

never look at me

you miss Lucie Manette yeah

if Darnay weren't so secretive about his

business across the channel we wouldn't

have needed our clever trick today was

tap clever of you though you knew jack

all I rented the wiser about him now did

he open his heart to his new brother he

says he has a duty regarding his

mother's dying wishes the people who

tried to obstruct him something bad in

the family past not to be mentioned

something shameful to him that's why he

calls himself Darnay not his real name

he won't say French born cause yes

Charles Darnay must have it done tonight

two sets of papers what's ruffled your

temper put a bottle on it and smooth it

again

she was the admiration of the whole

Court

who was who the pretty witness the

doctor's daughter is she pretty

you didn't notice you noticed same old

Sydney Carton you've lost heart already

look at me

what does it matter what does any of it

matter

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father father can't you sleep

I was back in that place again

will I ever be free of it you are

forever the the night time was always

the worst a prison makes terrible sounds

but there's something and must remember

something important try to forget the

past you said yourself it was best like

that you have a new life now your new

patients rely on you yes yes I have new

duties I'm grateful I want to forget but

something was done that I did that I

don't know but I fear it for the future

your future mercy and my own what can

harm us now we have each other

try to sleep

I'll sit with you you'll soon be strong

again

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what is gone wrong

it is a child sir struck by one of the

wheels

my son give him that

here Marquis st. Evremonde gives you

this he braved gas fire

he died in a moment for that pain you

would have lived without pain take it

you fool

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who threw that I will ride over any one

of you very willingly and exterminate

you from the earth

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the Marquis and evermore it is recordist

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what does she want gebel so she has a

petition which she begs to put before

you

vacation you got of Tulsa's not

petitions I crave for forgiveness but

the woman asked if I could speak to the

Marquis first very well you fell now let

us see what she wants for the love of

God my husband the forest yeah I suppose

he cannot pay something he has paid also

he's dead

well can I restore him to you so hear me

please put him under a little heap of

grass there are so many little heaps of

grass he died deformed so many died of

fault

so many more will die of what well

can I feed them I don't ask it sir

my petition is that the gravestone all

her wooden cross we put over him to show

where he lies without it his grave will

never be found when I'm dead too I can

put me

gun

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oh my love you're never just arrived

from England how do you leave that what

are you doing mean then what many of our

nobility will have to do someday I

worked I teach our language our

literature I translate really it's also

considerable labor why not accept your

natural destiny because I renounce this

property and France this property is not

yet young to me now forgive me of course

it is not but if I inherited it from you

tomorrow which I have the vanity to hope

is not probable for 20 years from now

you know my trauma I would abandon it

let it go to ruin what else is it now a

wilderness of ruin misery and oppression

is it nephew what do you say shall be

done with it if it ever becomes mine I

would hope to put it in some other hands

better qualified to freed of the weight

of wrongs that drags it down if it can

never be freed but it is not for me

is this the new philosophy

I must assume that I will die their

plate ratings a system by which I am

read I will preserve the owner of the

family name if you own a lot

I believe our name is the most detested

in France let us hope so

it shows the homage of the peasantry

there is not a face in all this country

round us which looks back at me with

anything but fear and slavery there

compliment

he chose out a family has sustained each

rancher

we shall eat

you must be tired from your journey you

are most persistent Jones I wonder that

you pursue your object when it puts you

in such peril it is sacred to me such a

penny for all I know you may even have

work to make the circumstances

surrounding me look more suspicious what

influence of iron England I know you

would use any means to prevent me

reaching my object here yes I told you

so long ago for beyond I was a family

our honourable family has done in world

of wrong we have injured every human

creature who came between us and our

pleasure whatever it was my father had

his full part in battle now it is for me

to obey the last look in my mother's

eyes when she implored me to have mercy

and redress those wrongs that is what I

understand by the family honor and I'll

tortured by my failure to redeem it if

you came to me for help he would forever

seeking them this shirt the new

philosophy with it yes things are

changed that was used to hold the ride

of life and death death from lethal men

have been taken out and act we push

is the only lasting philosophy I think

no no not in front of dogs

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I know that between you and Lucy because

of what happened to you there is an

affection that you father's can have

known I know that when she is clinging

to you their hands of the baby a girl

the woman all in one around your neck I

know that in loving you she sees and he

loves her mother at her own age does her

mother brokenhearted loves you through

your dreadful trial and in your

restoration I have seen this the two of

you with this hallowed light about you

and felt I couldn't bring my love

between you but I must because I love is

my witness that I loved and longed for

her as my wife I believe it I know it I

have had the happiness of being made

welcome here Dr Manette

I have kept silent for as long as I felt

able longer I think and is in the nature

of an Allen I love you total Tilly

devotedly I know you have loved let your

own love

I don't want to talk about that I

haven't want to recall that I asked I

have no doubt you love my daughter but

have you told her sir No out of

consideration for me I thank you

please believe this also if I thought

that by marrying Lucy I would force a

separation between you and her

I would never breathe a word of my love

for her if I thought that would follow

even years from now I wouldn't be able

to touch her hand our lives are already

so close like you I am a voluntary exile

from France like you I'm striving to

live away from my country by my own

exertions and trusting in a happier

future Lucy my wife would always be your

child your companion your friend thank

you

Charles Downey if I were to harbor any

fences or apprehensions you are hold

against you they would all be

obliterated for Lucy's sake she's

everything to me more to me than

suffering not to me turn around if she

ever tells me that you are essential to

our happiness I will be your confidence

in me must be returned in full to my

part my present name is not as you know

my own I wish to tell you my true name

and why I left France no I should have

no secret from you no don't tell me now

tell me when I ask you if you see loves

you tell me on your wedding morning your

promise

willingly

go now

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yes yes yes Sydney thank you you let the

devil pound them in court with it

Sydney old boy you're in a bad way you

really are in a bad way I have some

advice for you sit there get married

face up to it

look at yourself you'll knock up badly

or one of these days and be ill and poor

you really want to think about getting a

nurse Mary never mind that you Stan

woman's company you don't have the

attack for it

find yourself a respectable woman with a

little property well I mean it gets the

rainy day that's the kind of thing for

you do you think about is Sydney Mary

Jean yes such a sensitive in political

spirits the soul of romance

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I have loved you since I first saw you

your voice

I never heard a sound so sweet so dear

to me

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so beautiful

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if ever there was love in the world

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well soon find our son young he'll be by

there nothing now don't you nothing me

and Jerry never weren't hearing me you

feel some of me losing the coffins five

y'all Bailey never die sir

John Paul said I know in at the call

twin we saw in my son what should have

been only a word well made youngin mr.

John Barsad

cartoons a particular occasion was to

bear in Christ to Pancras in the field

not the worst

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praying against me today young I did you

that no of course you didn't tell me to

make an honest living

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where's your sense of beauty woman to me

and to my partner

it brings an adjoint of me down in this

business as you call dreadful it feeds

you and young Jerry don't it come on go

with you Father

are you listening again where are you

going I'm going fishing and you're going

back to bed where you belong or you'll

feel me he asked me tonight if he could

be a resurrection man when he's grown up

it seems to me there boy will be a

blessing makeup for his mother

who took mr. John Barsad out if it was

ever port in you have business in Paris

mr. Barsad I'm expecting to find

employment with your government I have

certain skills to offer I like to make

myself useful all right

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how'd you do miss manette but I don't

need to ask

I can see you very well I'm afraid the

same can't be said of you mr. carton the

life I lead is not conducive to health

then why not change it my lady bird

coming here to see you do dozens come to

see her mistress hundreds indeed for

gracious sake say something else besides

indeed or no fidget me to death really

them better bad enough

who are these Henry's mistress mr.

carton mr. Danny I have lived with the

darling or the darling has lived with me

and paid me for it but she should never

have done if I could have afforded to

keep either of us since she was ten

years old

it's really very hard all sorts of

people were not in the least worthy of

Lady Bird her forever turning up crowds

multitudes of people wanting to take her

affections away from me hmm do me you

started it Hey didn't you

who brought her father to life oh that

was beginning it it wasn't ending it was

it not that I have any fault to find

with doctor Manette

except he is not worthy to have such a

daughter which is no imputation on him

for how could anybody be it's really

very hard there I've said it

how do you do by the way and pretty well

thank you

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I was the only one to see him when he

came hiding under the carriage

I was working over the hilltop I could

have shot it to warn amake but I

wouldn't you did well after he killed

the Maquis it took them nearly a whole

year to find you it was well done now

they say he'll hang there till he rots

they do that it's nothing to them they

kept him in an iron cage

that's nothing is she safe Jack is our

new friend he's proved himself he'll say

nothing unless he wants to hang from the

gallows just as high as Gasper I brought

Jack to Paris to see the fine world on

Sunday Jesse the king and queen in the

curl I promised my friend he didn't and

you'll register is it a good sign that

he wants to see the nobility unsure if

you want a dog to kill rats you show him

one don't you

father can you tell me this last time

that you feel quite certain that my

master Charles will not interpose

between us I know it but do you in your

heart do you feel quite certain yes

quite sure more than that my future is

far brighter now don't you see that

don't you know how anxious I have been

that your life should not be wasted yes

wasted

for my sick you have been so unselfish

how could I be happy if your happiness

was incomplete if I had never seen

Charles I would have been quite happy

with you Father but you did see him and

if he hadn't been Charles it would have

been another and if there were no other

I would have been the cause of that how

could I be happy then

the Englishman the one the new spy from

the police told us about easier

good day my friends I hope it all goes

well with you I would like a glass of

very old cognac fresh cool water bad

business about poor Gaspard the

neighborhood much angered by the

execution would you not say Jacques

that is not my name as old as we have as

fresh isn't everyone here called Jacques

all friends together

I hear Jacques on all sides el mr. foul

is my name you seem to know the quarter

better than I do of course I have the

honor of cherishing some interesting

associations with your name we haven't

met before

not exactly but we do have mutual

friends the doctor manette and his

daughter you looked after them here I've

known them in London the good doctor and

the pretty miss Manette did you know

she's getting married not to an

Englishman but he'll be astonished when

I tell you the the strangest coincidence

the man Gaspard killed there's a nephew

he's marrying Lucie Manette of course he

doesn't call himself every Monde in

England but he is the present Marquis

what does he call himself Charles Darnay

quite like his mother's name

for Gaspard poor jack if it comes in our

lifetime and we see a triumph I hope for

her sake destiny will keep her husband

at a foster her husband's destiny will

take him where he is to go it will lead

him to his end that is all I know

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if it had been possible for you to

return my love don't be afraid to hear

me I know what I have to drunken wasted

I've always thought you could be much

were there of yourself mr. carton

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too late for that you can never change

will you hear what I have to say it will

help you if you had returned man I would

have been conscious every hour of every

day

in spite of my own happiness that I

could only bring you misery blight your

life thankful that cannot be

but I want you to know that you've been

the last dream of myself since knowing

you I've had ideas of a new beginning a

dream or a dream that ends in nothing

and leave me where I was but I want you

to know you inspired it if I made you

more unhappy don't think that I would

reproach myself or that you would have

reclaimed me of anyone could you still

have a life my life is what might have

been but for what is left of it let me

carry the memory that I opened my heart

to you

to you alone in all the world

will he promise that what I say will be

shared with melon yes I promise I'll

never speak of this again

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we are my death

I shall hold sacred the one good

remembrance

Jeff thank and bless you for it my last

of all of myself was made to you and I

named all my failings and faults gently

carried in your heart made otherwise be

light and happy

in Nara to bottler - you won't think

they're worth tears

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for you I will do anything I will make

any sacrifice

soon you'll have new ties to gladden you

her husband

children remember always that there is a

man who will give his life for you not

for anyone you love

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ah mr. Darnell said birthday to you sir

allow me sir point alone with second

graduations on what's to come tomorrow

sir much I wish you and the bride the

best of good fortune and as much

happiness as me and mrs. grant you have

enjoyed I can't say more I swear Thank

You Jerry

very kind of you thank you sir

I remember him that was to be ported

another one cheating the grave any good

if they're caught it

no she has already been assured Charles

but miss Pross and I being formal people

of this list we wish to make a formal

declaration to you regarding Doctor

Manette it is all in our minds that

since he was brought here to safety he

has not spent a single day without

losses care we want you to know for your

own peace of mind why you would lose

your away we undertake he shall receive

every conceivable potential even tell

sins bank will go to the wall before the

doctor haven't you said mr. lorry

comparatively speaking respond and when

he joins you in two weeks time to the

rest of your trip again we undertake to

send him in the best health and the

happiest mind thank you both it is what

I want to do here you may take your

affidavit

mr. Darnay join me let me drink your

health indulgent mr. Vanek

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hey lastly

you think we could be friends we already

are I hope good of you to say sir

even as the fashion of speech but I

don't mean it that way

how do you mean even do you remember

certain occasion in this very place but

I was disagree what shall we say

insufferable about being alike and not

alike and liking you and not liking you

you said you hated me hmm yes and I wish

you'd forget that I forgot it long ago

the fashion will speak again doesn't

help me forget it

about nothing more important to remember

about you you saved my life that day

what I did was made a professional

claptrap I don't know that I cared what

became of you at the time not at the

time whether or not you rendered me a

great service

Renda me if I can well if you and your

wife could endure having a worthless

dissolute of such indifferent reputation

coming and going at odd times I'd like

you to let me visit you as the moon

takes me why not cut you in give me some

useless piece of old furniture tolerated

for his long service no need to take any

notice of me in the corner there I'm

sure I wouldn't abuse the privilege

don't think of it as a privilege Lucy

and I will welcome you whenever you wish

of course we will cousin gladly thank

you

much obliged

I have looked at that moon from my

prison window when I couldn't bear her

alive when it has been so shipped over

so to me to think about shining upon

what I had lost if I had beaten my head

against the walls of myself I've looked

at that moon in such an empty state of

mind that I could think of nothing but

how many lines I could draw across her

and how many down it was 20 either way I

remember and the last one was hard to

squeeze it I looked at her wandering a

thousand times about the unborn child

that was taken away from did it live was

it a son who would one day avenge his

father our son who might believe his

father disappeared of his own free will

abandoned his family or was it a

daughter who would grow to be a woman

father I am that child oh yes yes

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was it for this sweet little lucid but I

brought you across the channel such a

baby then bless me I was doing

conferring such a delightful obligation

on Charles who didn't mean to do is how

could you know Oh cried miss Pross the

don't cry just me I suppose us an

occasion that makes a man speculate of

all he has lost their me to think they

might have been mrs. loving at any time

this past fifty years maybe

nonsense you were a bachelor in your

cradle before your faithful then I was

very unhappy and they dealt with

nonsense again I'm so glad you're such

friends

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you have Charles Donny today you become

my son-in-law with my wholehearted

blessing what you have told me of your

true name and family is of no account

except that you wish me to know for

honesty's sake I thank you for your

confidence to me you are Charles Darnay

you are the same man you were when I

first met you when you helped you see

support me on that crossing from France

you are Charles Darnay and my daughter

loves you nothing more need be known of

you

take a chance she's yours thank you sir

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I lose it

technique Charles to my wedded husband

I Lucy take me Charles to my wedded

husband

ask him to hold from this day forward to

haven't evolved from this day forward

better worse for better for worse richer

poorer for richer for poorer in sickness

and in health in sickness to love

cherish and according to

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Charles and we say I've consented

together and have declared the same by

giving and receiving of a ring

and by joining of hands I pronounce a

baby man and wife together

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where is my work

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let me have my work

perhaps he's sleeping

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give me my work well thesaurus the young

lady will be done that he will need no

morning shoes my dear friend he should

have been finished long ago

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my friend me you know me 105 North Tower

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105 North I have noted from terrible

warnings in myself that my reason will

not long remain an impaired but I

solemnly declare that I am at this time

in the possession of my right now that

my memory is examined his exam and that

I write how long did it last 9 days and

nights as as Lucy being told we hope she

will never need to know that was very

thoughtful

My dear Manette

if you can bear to dwell on it how did

this relapse come about is the danger of

another how can we help you

it was quite unforeseen it's such a

strong distressing revival of memory and

as to the future I have great hope it's

past and well now

your shoe making tools you always keep

them by you don't they remind you

wouldn't it be better to be rid of them

that would be very hard the work

relieved so much pain to need those

tools again and not be able to find them

that would bring a sense of terror they

are very old companions but you don't

need them now you're well again

doesn't keeping them remind you with

fear of needing them give them up my

friend for your daughter's sake

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you eat the game

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you

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hey Patriots today the army the true

French army is with us

it's not Patriots the guns are ours even

even the soldiers fight with us the Army

is falling

are you ready Patriot Musti thank God

one to the body

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which of you has been here the longest

oh you a long time 105 North Tower

take me there's no one there baby I

swear

yes I'll show you

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Fred Patriots we found him the Governor

on the bus be 18 years 18 years and this

a pal example Manette

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it has come at last almost

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maila born and remains free and equal in

rights

social distinctions can only be based on

common usefulness the aim of every

political body with the preservation of

the natural and inalienable rights of

man these rights are Liberty property

safety and resistance against oppression

no man can be accused arrested or

imprisoned except by due process of the

law free communication of thoughts and

opinions is one of the most precious

rights of man every citizen can

therefore speak write and print freely

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the country's great houses set ablaze a

length of the land the court the court

mind you suspended rumors even that the

king will be executed in all this by the

rabble of the streets assure me thrown

off the face of the earth for and would

be if it were England we were talking

about terrible times times friendlies

stands driver seems to me is the same as

ever the best of times and the worst of

times

season of lies the season of darkness

the spring of hope in the winter of

despair if everything before us there's

nothing before us but all going direct

to heaven all going direct the other way

same as ever I wonder a new cotton I

always do wonder you

oh here was like today at least is the

French fellas use tell since bangers if

it's their embassy mr. Stryver sir mr.

cart

Jolson's ever at your service sir

as usual delsin's ever duty

savages they looted and burnt everything

have nothing like Monsieur I'm ruined

we've been in England for a year and for

a year I've been coming here every day

but I still don't know what's happened

to my poverty also and it's such a

fashion they call it property of the

nation this conference oh I know you are

the youngest man that ever lived

but I must suggest to you to go a long

journey traveling so uncertain with the

country in such confusion Irish may not

be safe even for you my dear child if it

were not a disorganized city in a

disorganized country there would be no

reason for me to go I should be safe

enough

who will care to interfere with an old

codger like me I shall take Jared

crunchers bodyguard just for safety sake

the Lord about knows what the

consequences would be to some of our

people if our books and papers were

seized or destroyed I know what must be

safeguarded bedded who put out of harm's

way shall I hang back when Tilson's

noses hmm what have eaten Tilson's bread

for 60 years

and you're going tonight the matter is

too pressing for further delay

evermore there's any gentleman know the

whereabouts of the Marquis and evermore

heard of this man renegade traitor to

his family and his country talk to the

new doctrines yes several Maldon abandon

his estates left them to the village

cattle I never knew him to say run away

when his uncle was murdered

that's the story of the Marquis at a

pond how is it it's not the kind of

fella well done in there permit me mr.

Stryver I will deliver later I know the

man I'm sorry for that why why here is a

fellow infected with the most pestilent

and blasphemous code of devilry ever

known abandons his property to the

vilest scum that evident matter by

wholesale and you ask me why I'm sorry

even know him because you teach the

young and scoundrels like that conk

emanate that's what I don't it you may

not understand this man I do not you may

tell him so you may tell him from me I

wonder he's not at the head of the

butchering mob oh no no no not this man

I know something of human nature and I

tell you this is the kind of gentleman

who will show a clean pair of heels very

early in the scuffle this man is a

coward the kind that sneaks away

I'm charged with treason against people

in that I have acted against them for an

immigrant in vain I plead that I have

acted for them according to your

commands I have connected no Reds

I have given the village what children

fuel and provisions there were in vain

the tribunal says where is that emigrant

I cried that question in my sleep and in

my prayers from this prison of horror I

beg you to release me my only fault is

that I have been true to you I pray you

be true to me without your help I shall

lose my life

I shall tell Lucy that I have to go to

Oxford unexpectedly for a few days the

morning after I leave I wish you to give

her a letter from me which will tell her

the truth

that I am forced to go to Paris the

letter will ask her forgiveness for the

subterfuge i fear without it doctor

manette your daughter might insist she

comes with me and I cannot exposure to

those difficulties say dangers Charles

for you at least I must go

I cannot sneak away from this old

servant and let him die for my weakness

I have been weak in my hatred of that

heritage in my happiness here my love

for my new family my new life I've put

old responsibilities aside I meant to

leave things in proper order there but

it was never done I did abandon my duty

and I cannot abandon this poor man I

understand I'm proud of you Charles

you remember that on your wedding day

we agreed that Lucy should never know

your true name have you kept that

promise

of course Lucy has never heard the name

of every not pray God she never will

you must write to us the moment you

reach Paris to let us know if you are

safe the very first moment Charles

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anyone's ever long known as down there

will be consigned to the force prison to

await trial by the people's tribunal

trial by what law for what offense we

have new lows and your fences since you

were here last I came of my own free

will that let you have tells you plainly

why you are an immigrant letter tells

you I am here to help a fellow

countryman he's not that my right any

guns have no rights that alone is my

offense

I left the country emigrant aristocrat

and you came back and for that I am to

be imprisoned until the tribunal decides

arrest animal to the citizen this Court

is to be held in secret

in the name of the assembled companies

in misfortune a happy honor of killing

you welcome to the force and of

controlling with you on the calamity

that brought you among us made soon

terminate happily thank you you are most

kind but I hope you are not in secret I

have heard them say so oh what a pity we

so much regretted but take courage

several members of our society have been

in secret that first and it has lost a

bird a short time I aggrieved to inform

the society in secret

when we heard nothing from him we

decided to follow my father wanted to

come alone but I wouldn't let him I

could not let him you need not have

worried I'm saved

yeah since I was a prisoner at the

bestie there is not a French Patriot who

will touch me except to embrace me I

still would have come to find my husband

how could I leave him we don't know what

might have happened to him we know he

was taken to the false prison a few days

ago that place are you sure of this

they told us so at the Berea I will go

there they will listen to me

I will save Jules I'm sure of it then

that I think good Lucy should rest now

join Miss Pross on a charm idea try to

see there's nothing more you can do

tonight

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thank you see here and that is under

designed quite safe any grant ever moon

you're lucky man you can't keep your

head on your neck for now they agreed to

hold you in safe custody here until you

are called for your trial all so that I

may stay here to protect you from the

madness of the people some order must

prevail this damage is a sickness how

can I ever thank you I have seen nothing

but from the sounds how many have been

murdered I beg your forgiveness for

bringing you back to this until that

door closed on me I had never known what

Ewan do it all those years of living

death in the past II know that suffering

has brought me my strength and power see

what has come of what appeared to be all

waste and ruin my beloved daughter has

restored me to myself now it's my turn

to bring her the dearest part of herself

don't lose faith Charles you will walk

free from here

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dearest take courage I'm well and your

father has influence around me you are

not permitted to reply to this kiss our

child for me my dear you'd better have

the child in this props here these

citizens need to know them for their

protection I am my protection mr. lorry

and the child and her mother's well I'm

sure boldface you are pretty well a good

press this is not a normal time he's

that the tried behind her truss please

let them see the child

it that his child yes madam

that is our poor prisoners only child he

will be good to my husband do him no

harm

help me to see him if you can your

husband is not my business here you are

my business here for my sake then and

the child what is it your husband says

in that little letter something about

influence tell you that my father has

much influence about him then it will

release your husband let him do so as a

wife and mother I beseech you to have

pity on my innocent husband the wife and

mother we have known since we were as

young as that child unless never saw

such pity we have seen their fathers and

husbands lost in prison often enough all

our lives we've seen our women suffer in

themselves and in their children hunger

thirst sickness misery of every kind we

have borne this a long time think judge

is the trouble that come to one woman

wife and mother anything to us now

1,100 prisoners were murdered in those

four dreadful nights dragged from the

jails on a whim of bloodlust since then

the calm of sorts if this is calm

it is the normality cotton the tribunal

sits in judgment of sorts ten cases to

the hour a few are released most go to

fill these carts but the daily

entertainment at the guillotine yes I've

heard the the popular jokes the national

razor shaves very close the best cure

for a headache it stops the hair turning

gray when does Danny come to trial soon

a month a year Mineta stylist pursues

every avenue at least it won't happen

without his knowing strange sissy

curtain we all lean on him for support

nod and Lucy Waits

there's a sad little street by the

prison sometimes showers can reach a

window high up

she can't see him but he can see her it

is some comfort don't let an arm here

yet until I can be useful mr. lorry sir

mr. carton is that man known to you

known from London

John Bassett means of living perjury

Oh finally spy that's in and supposed to

be dead in his grave but never was a

coffin full of bricks and stones that's

him

there's me and two others can swear to

it I'd like to know more about mr.

Bassett Jerry am I to believe it a

messenger Justin's been a grave robber

ah well if I was I mean there's more

than one side wait what about the dr. Z

even if I was what about the

Undertaker's and the parish clerks the

sextons and night watchmen

I wouldn't get much by it even if I was

yeah well what I will say sir suppose a

man had been in it and wished he never

had could he make amends by going into

the regular digging digging a mem with

the will so they're safe and can't be

undone

when a man seen what we have here sir it

makes something different a man who

seemed all there you seen enough body

sir make sympathetic of repenting

of flopping like mrs. cruncher enough

let me run over my hand mr. Basset an

Englishman in the employ of the

Republican French government the

Englishman formerly in the employ of the

English government the add a static

enemy of France of freedom the influence

be clear this day in the city of

suspicion an Englishman still in pay of

the aristocratic English government a

spy in fact spy for the French at a

Socratic government look over your own

hand mr. Basset take your time I have

protection I'm not afraid or secret men

have afraid always I'm safe I'm trusted

at the prisons turnkey I come and go as

I choose an ideal man for a plot in the

prisons a dead man who never died at all

one favor from you mr. Basit

that I denounce you

good day citizen s good day citizen

walking here again you think it's a

pretty spot well it's not my business a

little one today such a pretty one

I used two men roads I cut off heads I

little sand QT push the next off comes

her head now comes a child Lucy news at

last Charles has been called by the

tribunal is summoned for tomorrow it

will be over soon I will bring him back

to you I swear recall to life

Charlotte behold

calm down a stands accused as a renegade

whose life is forfeit to the Republic

under the decree which banishes all

immigrants on pain of death citizens it

is true that my son-in-law was born into

a family of great wealth and possessions

but he renounced that family because

it's station was so distasteful to him

he left France and went to England to

live by his own industry and not on the

labors of the oppressed people of his

native country he returned yes

not knowing of the new law that banished

him but returned only on the entreaty of

an innocent citizen whose life was in

danger

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my friends that citizen was set free by

the same tribunal because my son-in-law

interceded for him citizens you know me

you know what the France of old did to

me he was

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in France after of those years in the

bestie I too left my native country like

my son-in-law

I became an exile unlike him I'm here

today to plead for an innocent life well

and I an emigrant is my life forfeit

where is the difference my friends

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citizen president we are ready to give

our votes the short and the long of it

is that I am a loyal subject for his

most vicious Majesty King George the

third of England I'm with you there miss

all the way and as such I don't care

what midnight murder and mischief these

local preachers get up to my Maxim is

confound their politics frustrate their

neighbors tricks on him our hopes we fix

god save the king the king god bless him

god save the king

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the citizen Evremonde called Darnay you

are again a prisoner of the Republic you

must come with us now but the tribunal

released him he was saved

he's summoned for tomorrow he must

return with us to the Conciergerie

immediately why tell me you will know

tomorrow are you ready

he must finish dressing no she doesn't

her stay here go with him

citizen you know me we all know you

citizen doctor tell me what has happened

he has been denounced to the section of

San Juan this citizens from there but

what is he accused of he will be told

tomorrow please who denounced him does

against the rule but you can tell them

this citizen and citizen Nestor foutch

and one other who you will see tomorrow

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citizens of the jury new evidence will

be placed before you today concerning

this man shall be for more to call down

a who stands argh and announced as an

enemy of the Republic if you had known

yesterday what you will now be told

about this family of tyrants infamous

for the oppression of the people you

would never have released him for a

public demands his death by guillotine

who denounced him this man

amidst the fast one vendor of sentient

one - has defiled his wife and its own

home Annette physician citizen president

I deny this false claim how will this be

true how could I denounce my own

daughter's husband be silent you will

submit to the authority of the tribunal

my family is dearer to me than my life

nothing can be so dear to any citizen of

the Republic

papers his honey told them on its

announcement of the Alistair credible

mold how could this be

she was a child it is here in these

papers discovered in cell number 105 in

the North Tower of the Bastille

discovered by Alistair far so well known

hero of the taking of that accursed

fortress and the man who was prisoner in

that cell for 18 years annex aldermen it

citizen Manette did you write this paper

yes I did read how it begins

I Alexandre Manette physician write this

paper in myself in the Bastille during

the last month of the year 1767 I hide

it in the wall of the chimney in the

hope that some pitying hand may find it

there when I and my sorrows addressed

how long had you been been a prisoner 10

years it's all here

your own account it all began 10 years

before

when you were walking to your home when

a day in September two gentlemen were

waiting for you beside a carriage they

knew your name and your profession they

were on you will not

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this is someone who loved Emmy there is

another like this see her brother lay

wounded in the adjoining room

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disorder I'm an invite - my sister

Brooke is away and wanted to challenge

my brother gentlemen my brother had no

choice but to draw his sword against a

peasant boy

degrading

ridiculous sister he was calling for her

husband we're eating it with him

to do a dog-cart in the shaft common

practice he was sick they know it to

kill him the brother wanted her she

wouldn't so they killed him to go away

she was going to have a child

really left he has no more than a few

minutes

find her never find her

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I have another sister

younger

to care to a place

it never fine

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Nucky evermore I curse you - yeah

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the young woman lingered a few days and

then also died without ever getting a

reason she was unable to stay her name

or say where her family lived that is

correct you decided to report these

events at least privately in a letter to

the minister which you delivered by your

own hand I did then what happened

citizen a man came to my house at night

and said I was wanted urgently at the

sickbed he had a carriage waiting

outside my gate a scarf was rung tightly

across my mouth and my arms were

pinioned the two brothers ever moved

across the road from a dark corner and

stared into my face without a word the

Marquis took from his pocket the letter

I had written to the minister held it up

to me parented in the flames of a

lantern and put out the ashes with his

foot then the carriage took me to the

best a year citizen read what is written

here I Alexandre Manette physician

innocent prisoner of cell 105 North

Tower and the Bastian do this day in my

unbearable agony denounced the Bravo's

ever mode who brought me here to my

grave i denounced them and their

descendants to the last of their race

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forgive me we can't blame you for

nothing we understand our torment you

suffered when you first knew who I

really was on our wedding day we thank

you with all our love for the happiness

we have had you gave it to us father I

never knew of course that it was my

father and uncle who had you sent to the

Basti I knew only for my mother that

there was a family they had wronged she

made me promise to try to find that

family or at least the younger sister

and make what amends I could it was in

that search that I first met you and

Lucy so you see it was fade and not you

that brought me to this be comforted

heaven bless you god bless you

okay will you find a carriage I told you

once for you I would do anything

I will

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I have no real hope if any of these men

or all of them were prepared to spare

his life I doubt if they were there for

fear of their own lives but it's right

that he should try I encouraged him

because I feel that one day will console

Lucy she must be led to think that his

life was wanton Lee thrown away yes yes

yes all right but he will die tomorrow

there is no real hope yes no real hope

you know there's a lot of life to look

back on mr. lorry I've been my 78-year

we've been busy all your life trusted

respected looked up to I've been a man

of business as long as I've been a man

you might say I've been a man of

business since I was a boy many people

will miss you one day solitary bachelor

there's no one to weep for me can you

say that

Lucy will weep for you and a child yes I

daresay then thank God Fred did

something to thank God for truly it is

if you could say truthfully tonight I

have secured the love and attachment

gratitude or respect of no human

creature I've won myself a tender place

in no heart I've done nothing good or

useful to be remembered by

you know 78 years will be 78 heavy

cursors wouldn't they

yes mr. cotton I think they would be but

they're not

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announced in

purpose for you citizen for me you will

be careful to keep them separate citizen

you know the consequences of mixing them

perfectly I say we have to stop

somewhere there must be a time when we

say enough stop now why because we made

an end of it

extermination that's it's true remember

Jack let's stop here why

the doctor has suffered enough doctor I

care nothing for this doctor you try to

save every month you would save Ramon no

but leave it there stop with him the far

the leader the far who labored and he

for nothing but when the time would come

man now the time is near and you cry

stop the Vosges with him I said I have

had this race of every wound on my

register long time ask my husband if

that is so it is so in the beginning of

the great days we're the best team Falls

he finds the paper written by minute and

reread it together here

ask him if that is so it is so that

night

I tell him I have a secret he must know

this is my secret the boy that died from

every man's sword was my brother the

girl that died in every man's bed was my

sister the husband had died was my

sister's husband the urn bomb child my

sister's child the father that died was

my father

those are my death I was the child that

was hidden and lived

ask him who that is

it is so it's to me that those things

descend to meet revenge to the last of

the race asking the very so it is so

then tell win and fire when to stop I

don't think

let me have my work they said I could

have it I don't talk to me give me back

my shirt a hunch I found him wandering

about outside he's not been able to

answer any of my questions

but I think we see the answer yes our

last chance is gone he was never much

god mr. lorry I have some instructions

which I must ask you to follow to the

letter will he trust me it concerns the

safety of the doctor and Lucie and the

child are they in danger a great danger

from Madame Defarge Lucie the child they

were seen walking near the force

prisoner waiting there day after day

making signals it will be said Madame

Defarge has a spy a woodcutter who saw

them all three of them

by Lucy the father the little child she

will denounce them could this woman be

so evil he wouldn't understand your word

the life has brought her to this our

lives bring us all to what we are and

what we can do but they must be saved we

can do that mr. lorry will you trust me

do exactly what I say yes mr. garden

there can be no delays can he understand

anything he would do whatever Lucy tells

him it was tall leave for London

tomorrow we must only before the

execution Lucy must not wait to mourn

his passing the certificate which

enables me to leave a city in my name

keep it for me with your own until I

join you tomorrow you all have these

papers keep it carefully it's safer with

you captain what are you planning do as

I ask

and we'll be safe now we'll need two

carriages the first must already here in

the courtyard at midday you will be

inside it with Lucy the child and the

doctor and the moment I arrive you will

set off not an instance today Jerry and

Miss Pross should follow in a second

carriage an hour later that way we

attract less attention yes they see that

don't be surprised if and perhaps unwell

and I join you tomorrow you know my

habits whatever happened was the moment

I arrived delay for nothing

the thought of nothing lives depend on

it

do your part

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I think

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tell her to be strong to her father's

sake and the child's

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are you a prisoner

no Darnay asked no questions there's no

time I come from her your wife her

message to you is that you do exactly

what I say but the coat I'm quickly

doing man

you're thinking of escape it can never

be done take the pen right but I tell

you you will only die as well take the

pen right my friend

exactly what I said what name do I write

none write this exactly if you remember

the words that pass between us long ago

you will readily understand have you

ridden understand readily understand my

action here you do remember those words

I know it's nothing your nature to

forget them sorry dad

I'm thankful the time has come when I

can prove

you see you see that comes your pass let

us hope can you go through with the rest

of it you won't betray me I told you

he's ready

take him exactly where I said

he was weak in faith when I brought him

in to much room my friends no stomach

for some quixote taken to the gate

I am the resurrection and the life saith

the Lord

away go Dendi driver as I told you mr.

Gardiner

you see

remember always if there is a man who

will do anything for you

or anyone you love

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- where is she where is she

it will do her no good to hide wife of

every more citizen doctor shout as loud

as you will shout your head off hard the

gun who are they in that room if they

are gone they can be pursued pursued

right back you might from your

appearance be the wife of Lucifer but

you shall never get the better of me

I am an Englishwoman let me see let me

see

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miss me miss Jerry I've got the couch

can you hear me

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have up a person oh yeah Mario here's

mr. Sydney Katherine an Englishman he's

named there can't you speak Oh sir he is

unwell an old sickness has come upon him

suddenly sea voyage will revive him

Java slowly English thank you

yes that's me Aleksandr MANET physician

much faith 18-year prisoner of the

bestie his daughter wife of Everman I

welcome your husband to Paris you may go

follow me every month

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mr. she never missed a single one when

the Frog himself where's he a stay of

always the day of every month

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the day

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[Laughter]

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do 95 speak to you I was with you in the

force prison I thought you would

remember then he's our seamstress

forgive me of course I'm sorry I forget

what you were accused of plotting

against Republic but I don't know what

it was I did why would anyone plot with

me I'm innocent

truly you're not alone I heard you were

released I said a prayer for it to be

true it was for a few hours

another fred was I'm weak if you wish

say with me why are you doesn't matter

I'm a friend

why are you dying for him not only him

his wife and his child

don't you want your own life haven't no

wish to attend to that

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stop now

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I think you were sent to me by him and

you to me don't look at anything else

keep your eyes on me I'm not afraid of

anything while I hold your hand when I

let it go really really yes

there's nothing can harm you now if we

have no fear we can make our journey and

be at peace we journey together in our

hearts

yes we go together

yes when they let me be first

so you're still with me citizen can see

me first

yes all right quick now goodbye thank

you god bless you

I am the resurrection and the life saith

the Lord

either believeth in me though he were

dead yet shall he live and whosoever

liveth and believeth in me shall never

die

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it is a far far better thing that I do

than I have ever done it is a far far

better rest that I go to than I have

ever known

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you