A Tale of Two Cities | Book the Second, Chapter 16 Summary and Analysis

Book the Second: The Golden Thread - Chapter 16: Still Knitting

Summary
The mood in St. Antoine has changed; it now bears a “cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear for ever.” The Defarges make a trip to Paris to speak with “Jacques of the police.” He informs them that there is a spy in their quarters: John Barsard, a “rather handsome” man whose nose has “a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek.” The Defarges return to the wine-shop. Various Jacques are sitting around talking when a man...

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