Book the Second: The Golden Thread - Chapter 15: Knitting
Summary
The scene is the Defarges’ wine-shop, where there has been much activity of late. Ernest Defarge brings the mender of roads to the wineshop and introduces him as “Jacques” to the other “Jacques.” The mender of roads tells what he knows about the tall man in the nightcap: how he first saw him hanging on to the Marquis’ carriage, how he next saw this man, with his arms bound to his sides, being taken somewhere by soldiers. The mender of roads says that he does...
Source: MAXnotes to A Tale of Two Cities, ©2000 Research and Education Association, Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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