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Darnay). Meeting the Marquis at the St. Evremonde chateau, Darnay
says he will renounce the family property when he inherits to show
his disgust with the aristocracy. St. Evremonde expresses his hate
of his nephew, and his continued support of the old, unjust order.
The next morning the Marquis is found stabbed to death. Gaspard, the
father of the boy the Marquis ran over, has killed him as an act of
vengeance.

Back in England again, Darnay becomes engaged to Lucie. Sydney
Carton also declares his hopeless, lasting devotion to Lucie, and
vows he would give his life to save anyone dear to her.

John Barsad, now a spy for the French monarchy, tips off the Defarges
in Paris to the impending marriage of Lucie and Darnay. Privately
and meaningfully, Monsieur Defarge comments that he hopes destiny
will keep Lucie's husband out of France.

The marriage ceremony, together with a story Darnay has told about
discovering hidden papers in a prison, send Dr. Manette into
amnesiac shock. For nine days, until Miss Pross and Jarvis Lorry
pull him out of it, he reverts to his former shoemaking habits. We
learn later that on the wedding morning, Dr. Manette secured
Darnay's promise not to reveal his true name--St. Evremonde--to
anyone, not even Lucie.

Paris, 1789: the French Revolution breaks out. Defarge leads the
attack on the Bastille, while his wife marshals the revolutionary
women. In the country rebellious peasants burn down the St.
Evremonde chateau. Gabelle, the property's rent and tax collector,
is eventually arrested and thrown into Paris' L'Abbaye prison.
Rushing overseas, Darnay is at once seized by the revolutionaries as
an aristocrat, and flung into another prison, La Force. Lucie, her
young daughter, Miss Pross, and Dr. Manette rush to Darnay's aid,
lodging in Paris near Jarvis Lorry, who's there on business.

As an ex-Bastille prisoner, Dr. Manette has sufficient influence to
visit his son-in-law in La Force, but he is unable to free Darnay.
For fifteen months Lucie stands each afternoon outside of La Force,
praying that Charles may catch a glimpse of her. The Terror is in
full swing, the guillotine "shaving" innocent and aristocratic heads
alike.

At last Darnay is brought up before the French Tribunal. He is
released through the testimony of Dr. Manette and the long-suffering
Gabelle. But the very night of his freedom the Defarges and "one
other" denounce Darnay. On the spot, he is hauled back to the
Conciergerie, the scene of his trial. Ignorant of the disaster, Miss
Pross and Jerry Cruncher, Lorry's jack-of-all-trades, go shopping for
provisions and encounter Miss Pross' long-lost brother, Solomon.
Cruncher recognizes Solomon as the spy-witness John Barsad who once