Literature

A Tale of Two Cities

Chapter 3:
Mr. Lorry dreams of wandering through the inner vaults of Tellson's Bank
and finding everything safe. He also dreams that he "was on his way to dig
someone out of a grave." In his dream, he sees a cadaverous man who has
been buried alive for 18 years. Half asleep in the mail coach, Mr. Lorry
dreams of wandering through the inner vaults of Tellson's Bank and finding
everything safe. He also dreams that he "was on his way to dig someone
out of a grave." In his dream, he sees a cadaverous man who has been
buried alive for 18 years. Mr. Lorry asks the man if he cares to live, then
also asks over and over if the man will "come and see her?" Sometimes the
man cries out that seeing "her" would kill him, at other times that he must
see her immediately.

Chapter 4:
Summary:
In Dover, Mr. Lorry takes a room at the Royal George Hotel. The 17-year-old Lucie
Manette arrives that same afternoon, having received vague instructions to meet
a Tellson's Bank employee at the Royal George Hotel regarding some business of
her "long dead" father. Though he describes his news as just a "business matter,"
Mr. Lorry struggles with his emotions as he explains the "story of one of our
customers"—Lucie's father, Dr. Manette.
20 years ago, Dr. Manette, a renowned doctor, married an English woman and
trusted his affairs to Tellson's Bank. One day, Manette disappeared, having been
jailed by the authorities and taken to a secret prison. Rather than tell Lucie the
truth, Lucie's mother told her that her father was dead. Lucie's mother herself
died soon afterwards, and Mr. Lorry took Lucie from Paris to London.
Mr. Lorry braces Lucie for a shock: her father is not dead. He has been found,
though he's a shell of his former self. Manette is now in the care of a former
servant in Paris, and Mr. Lorry tells the astonished Lucie that he and she are going
to go to Paris so that she can "restore [her father] to life." Lucie's servant, the
loud and red-haired Miss Pross, rushes in and shouts at Mr. Lorry for upsetting
Lucie. Mr. Lorry asks her to travel with them to France.