glow left when the drag taken off but there remained a broken bold and a little village e t the bottom of the hill a broad sweep and rise beyond it a tower a a et for the chase and a with a fortress on it used u i prison round upon all darkening objects us tlie drew on be looked with the of one who was coming near the had one poor street with its poor poor poor tavern poor stable yard for of post horse poor fountain all usual poor it had its poor people too all its people poor and many of were sitting at their spare and the like for supper many were at the fountain washing leaves and and any small of the earth that be eaten expressive signs of what made poor were not the tax for the state the tax for the the tax for the lord tax local and tax general were w be paid here and to be paid there according to inscription in the little village until the wonder that there any village left few children were to be seen and no dogs as w the men and women their choice on earth was stated the prospect � life on the lowest terms that could sustain it down in the little village under the mill or and death in the dominant on the by a in advance and by the l s of his which snake like al their heads in the evening as if lie came attended the the drew up in his ling carriage at the house gate it was a tale of two cities the fountain and the suspended their operations to look at him he looked at them and saw in them without knowing it the slow sure down of face and figure that was to make the meagre ness of an english superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years the cast his eyes over the faces that drooped before him as the like of himself had drooped before of the court � only the difference was that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to � when a of the joined the group bring me hither that fellow said the to the the fellow was brought cap in hand and the other fellows closed round to look and listen in the manner of the people at the paris fountain i passed you on the road it is true i had the honor of being passed on the road coming up the hill and at the top of the hill both it is true what did you look at so i looked at the man he stooped a little and with his tattered blue cap pointed under the carriage all his fellows stooped to look under the carriage what man pig and look there pardon he swung by the chain of the shoe � the drag who demanded the traveller the man g a tale of two cities may the devil away how do yoa call the man know all tbe men of this ui of tbe country who was he tour he was not of part of the country of all the days of my life i saw him swinging by the chain to he with your gracious permission that waa the of it his head hanging over � he turned himself sideways to the carriage and back with his face thrown up to the sky and his head hanging down then recovered himself with his cap und made a bow what waa he like he was than the miller all covered with dust white as a tall as a the picture produced an immense sensation ia its little crowd but all eyes without comparing notes other eyes at the mai to observe whether he had any on his truly you did well said the sensible that such were not to him to see a thief accompanying my carriage and not open great mouth of yours put him aside was the and some united he had come out with to this examination and the examined by the of his arm in an i aside said lay hands oa this stranger if he seeks to lodge a tale of two cities your village to night and be sure that his business is honest i am flattered to devote myself to your orders did he run away fellow � where is that accursed the accursed was already under the carriage with some half dozen particular friends pointing out the chain with his blue cap some half dozen other particular friends promptly him out and presented him breathless to the did the man run away when we stopped for the drag he himself over the head first as a person into the river � see to it go on the half dozen who were peering at the chain were still among the wheels like sheep the wheels turned so suddenly that they were lucky to save their skins and bones they had very little else to save or they might not have been so fortunate the burst with which the carriage started out of the village and up the rise beyond was soon checked by the of the hill gradually it subsided to a foot pace swinging and upward among the many sweet of a summer night the with a thousand about them in of the quietly mended the points to the lashes of their the walked by the horses the was audible trotting on ahead into the dim distance at the point of the hill there was a little burial ground with a cross and a new large figure of our on it it was a poor figure in wood done by some inexperienced rustic but he had studied a tale of two the figure from the life � hia own life ma be � for il was dreadfully 