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lily deteriorating through his life OF
dissipation, able to advise others but
unable to guide himself, conscious of
the blight on him and resigning him
self to let 1t eat him away"
He and Darnay soon became fire.
quent visitors at the small house In
Soho square, the home of DIR. Manette
and his daughter. Through Lucie's
care and devotion, the Doctor had al
most wholly recovered from the effects
Of his long Imprisonment, and 1t was
only I'm times of strong excitement that
any trace of his past insanity could be
detected. The sweet face of Lucie
Manette soon won the hearts Of both
the young men, but it was Darnay to
whom she gave her love.
And so that interview between Lueie
and Sydney Carton has a pathOs that
wrings our hearts. He knew that even
| IL his love could have been returned, 1t
would have added only to his bitter
ness and sorrow, for he felt it would
have been powerIess to lift him from
the slough of SeIfishness and Sensu-
atty that had engulfed him. But he
could not resist this last sad confess
sion of his love; and when she weeps
at the sorrow OF which she has been
the innocent cause, he implores: DO
not weep, dear Miss Manette; the life
lead renders me unworthy of your
pure love. My last supplication is this:
Think now and then that there is a
man who would give his life to keep
life you love beside you"
But dark days were to come. In the
year 1889 the downtrOdden French
peasantry turned upon their oppres-
sors. The streets Of Paris were filed
with crowds of people whose eager
cry was for "blood" Madame Defarge
no longer sat behind the counter of her
small wine shop, silently knitting into
her work the names of her hated
enemies, but axe In hand and knife at
her belt, headed frenzied mob OF
women on to the Bastile. The French
Revolution had actually, begun.
Madame Defarge was one of the
leading spirits of the Revolution.
Early in life she had seen her family
fall victims to the tyranny and lust OF
the cruel nobility and from that time
her life had been devoted to revenge.
Three years of crime and bloodshed
passed, and In 1892 Mr.. Jarvis Lorry
| and Charles Darnay landed in Paris,
The former to protect the French
branch of Tellson & Co, and the latter
/ to befriend an old family servant who
had besought his help. Not until they
nad set foot In Paris did they realize
into what caldron of fury they had
,, plunged. Mr.. Lorry, on account of his
business relations, was allowed his
freedom, but Darnay was hurried at
once to the prison Of La Force, there
: o await his trial. The reason given
/, for the outrage was the new law for
The arrest of all returning French
migrants, but the true cause was that
he had been recognized as Charles
: Evremonde.
These tidings soon reached London
? and DR.. Manette, with his daughter
Lucie, fastened to Paris, for he felt
sure that his long confinement in the
Bastile would win for him the sym
pathy of the French people, and thus
enable him to save his son-in-law
: Days and months passed, and although
= the Doctor succeeded In gaining
promise that Darnay's life should b'
. spared, the latter was not allowed Il
: leave his prison.
: At last came the dreadful year o.
: the Reign of Terror. The sympath,
i, which at first had been given to DR.
!. Manette had become weakened through
= the influence of the bloodthirst!
= Madame Defarge. Also, there had beef
i found in the ruins of the Bastile pa
per which contained DR.. Manette's &C
count of his own abduction and i'm
prisonment, and pronouncing soleml
!. ,urse upon The House of Evremond
. and their descendants, who were de
- Ciafeu I'D De llle uutliOiS VI his SiSheSS'
u years of misery. Charles Darnay'
l. doom was sealed. "Back to the Con
! ciergerie and death within twenty-fou
- hours"
N To Sydney Carton, who had followe
his friends to Paris, came an inspira
y ton. Had he not promised Lucie tina
IS he would die to save a life she loved
e by bribery, he gains admittance TO tn
r prison; Darnay is removed unconsciou
Y from the cell, and Carton sits down {
= await his fate.
Along the Paris streets six tun
a Drills are carrying the days wine to ]
E gulllotine. In the third car sits a youn
e man with his hands bound. As tn
n cries from the street arise against hir
re they only move him to quiet smile q
o. he shakes more loosely his hair abot
H. his face.
D. Crash! A head is held up and tn
knitting women who are ranged aboT
I'd the scaffold count zone"
ne The third cart comes up and the SUI
posed Evremonde descends. His liz
to move. forming the words, "a life 70
love"
The murmuring of many voices, III
m upturnIng Of many faces, then a
lg flashes away.
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