But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. A young man is acquitted of being a traitor, due in part to the efforts of a rather selfish lout who is assisting the young man’s attorney. A young woman discovers the father she’s never known is not dead but alive, if not entirely well. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. A doctor is released from the Bastille after being falsely imprisoned for almost eighteen years. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets.
You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as. “Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution.
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