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A TALE OF TWO CITIES


|Tale of Two Cities |
|Book 1 - Recalled To Life |
|Charles Dickens|
|Chapter 1 - The Period |
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|IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, itwas the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of |
|belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was |
|the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going |
|direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like thepresent period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its |
|being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. |
|There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a |
|queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. Inboth countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of |
|loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. |
|It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that |
|favoured period, as at this. Mrs.Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private|
|in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and |
|Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of |
|this very year last past(supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had|
|lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved |
|more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. |
|France, lessfavoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness|
|down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with |
|such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive,||because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of|
|some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that |
|sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certainmovable |
|framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the |
|heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed |
|about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his...