ary, deary, deary, wife of John and mother of his little
child! My loving loving, bright bright, pretty pretty! Welcome to your
house and home, my deary!"

Then of course the whole story came out. The mystery was solved and she
knew that John Rokesmith was the true John Harmon and that her husband
was really the man the Harmon will had picked out for her to marry.

In the splendid Boffin house they lived happily for many years,
surrounded by Bella's children. And they were never so happy as when
they welcomed Eugene Wrayburn with Lizzie his wife, or Jennie Wren, the
little dolls' dressmaker.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

PUBLISHED 1859

_Scene_: London and Paris

_Time_: 1775 to 1792

CHARACTERS

Doctor Manette A French physician
Rescued after long imprisonment in the Bastille

Lucie His daughter

Miss Pross Her English nurse

Sydney Carton An idle and dissipated law student

Mr. Lorry The agent of an English bank doing
business in Paris

The Marquis de St. Evremonde A French nobleman

Charles Darnay His nephew
A young Frenchman living in England as a tutor
Later, the Marquis de St. Evremonde, and Lucie's
husband

Gabelle The steward of Darnay's French estates

Defarge A Paris wine shop keeper
A leader of the revolutionists

Madame Defarge His wife

Barsad A spy and turnkey

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

I

HOW LUCIE FOUND A FATHER

A little more than a hundred years ago there lived in London (one of the
two cities of this tale) a lovely girl of seventeen named Lucie Manette.
Her mother had died when she was a baby, in France, and she lived alone
with her old nurse, Miss Pross, a homely, grim guardian with hair as red
as her face, who called Lucie "ladybird" and loved her very much. Miss
Pross was sharp of speech and was always snapping people up as if she
would bite their heads off, but, though she seldom chose to show it, she
was the kindest, truest, most unselfish person in the world. Lucie had
no memory of