The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tale of Two Cities, ….doc

The Project Gutenberg Etext of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [The rest of Dickens is forthcoming] CONTENTS Book the Second--the Golden Thread Chapter I Five Years Later Chapter II A Sight Chapter III A Disappointment Chapter IV Congratulatory Chapter V The Jackal Chapter VI Hundreds of People Chapter VII Monseigneur in Town Chapter VIII Monseigneur in the Country Chapter IX The Gorgons Head Chapter X Two Promises Chapter XI A Companion Picture Chapter XII The Fellow of Delicacy Chapter XIII The Fellow of no Delicacy Chapter XIV The Honest Tradesman Chapter XV Knitting Chapter XVI Still Knitting Chapter XVII One Night Chapter XVIII Nine Days Chapter XIX An Opinion Chapter XX A Plea Chapter XXI Echoing Footsteps Chapter XXII The Sea Still Rises Chapter XXIII Fire Rises Chapter XXIV Drawn to the Loadstone Rock I Five Years Later Tellsons Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness. They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable, it would be less respectable. This was no passive belief, but an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient places of business. Tellsons (they said) wanted no elbow-room, Tellsons wanted no light, Tellsons wanted no embellishment. Noakes and Co.s might, or Snooks Brothers might; but Tellsons, thank Heaven!-- Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellsons. In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws a