down, the current sets off that point, the
same allowance must be made for the drifting of the boat, the same tune
is always played by the rippling water against the prow."

Here was an entry made when the thought occurred to him of the close of
old Dorrit's life. "First sign of the father failing and breaking down.
Cancels long interval. Begins to talk about the turnkey who first called
him the Father of the Marshalsea--as if he were still living. 'Tell Bob
I want to speak to him. See if he is on the Lock, my dear.'" And here
was the first notion of Clennam's reverse of fortune. "His falling into
difficulty, and himself imprisoned in the Marshalsea. Then she, out of
all her wealth and changed station, comes back in her old dress, and
devotes herself in the old way."

He seems to have designed, for the sketches of society in the same tale,
a "Full-length portrait of his lordship, surrounded by worshippers;" of
which, beside that brief memorandum, only his first draft of the general
outline was worked at. "Sensible men enough, agreeable men enough,
independent men enough in a certain way;--but the moment they begin to
circle round my lord, and to shine with a borrowed light from his
lordship, heaven and earth how mean and subservient! What a competition
and outbidding of each other in servility."

The last of the Memoranda hints which were used in the story whose
difficulties at its opening seem first to have suggested them, ran thus:
"The unwieldy ship taken in tow by the snorting little steam tug"--by
which was prefigured the patriarch Casby and his agent Panks.

In a few lines are the germ of the tale called _Hunted Down_: "Devoted
to the Destruction of a man. Revenge built up on love. The secretary in
the Wainewright case, who had fallen in love (or supposed he had) with
the murdered girl."--The hint on which he worked in his description of
the villain of that story, is also in the Memoranda. "The man with his
hair parted straight up the front of his head, like an aggravating
gravel-walk. Always presenting it to you. 'Up here, if you please.
Neither to the right nor left. Take me exactly in this direction.
Straight up here. Come off the grass--'"

His first intention as to the _Tale of Two Cities_ was to write it upon
a plan proposed in this manuscript book. "How as to a story in two
periods--with a lapse of time between, like a French Drama? Titles for
such a notion. TIME! THE LEAVES OF THE FOREST. SCATTERED LE