It is much easier to burn men than to burn their opinions.

I lived rough, that you should live smooth.

A great many very young girls grown into bold women before they had well ceased to be children.

Gin-drinking is a great vice in England, but wretchedness and dirt are a greater and until you impr.

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there.

The vengeful revolutionary wife of Monsieur Defarge. One of the key revolutionary leaders, he embraces the revolution as a noble cause, unlike many other revolutionaries. The owner of a French wine shop and leader of the Jacquerie. Manette’s devoted and compassionate daughter. He was placed there because he knows a secret of the Evrémonde family that they are afraid he will release.ĭr. Once a highly respected Doctor, Manette was falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years.

In disgust at the cruelty of his family to the French peasantry he r enounces his rights to the Evrémonde title and changes his surname.Īlcoholic lawyer who bears a striking resemblance to Darnay. Evrémonde, he moves to London to start a new life and becomes a teacher. Referred to in the novel as “Monseigneur” and “Monsieur”.Ī French aristocrat and nephew of Marquis St. EvrémondeĬharles Darnay’s uncle and twin brother of Charles Darnay’s deceased father, symbolises the arrogant, French aristocracy. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. About The Circumlocution Office Website.The rise and fall of The Eagle and Grecian, City Road. All the fun of Charles Dickens’s Greenwich Fair.The Song of the Shirt: Mrs Biddell and an early victory in the Victorian court of public opinion.View over 250 locations associated with Charles Dickens in our trail.View quotations by character (sorted by work).View all our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations.

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