A Tale of Two Cities Page #2
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able to bear the hearing of it.
I can bear anything, sir,
rather than the insecurity in
which you leave me at the moment.
You speak collectedly.
That's good.
This story is incomplete.
It relies largely on some information we
have received from a man named Defarge,
who was formerly your father's servant.
According to this man Defarge, it appears
that one night, some eighteen years ago,
your father, Dr Manette, was returning
home late after attending a case in Paris,
when he received an urgent summons to
the country home of a certain nobleman.
The patient was a young peasant girl
The doctor found her suffering
from a high fever of the brain
To keep her quiet
she had been gagged and
tied with sashes and scarves
No-one considered that
she might suffocate
In fact it would not have shortened
her life by much if she had
able to ease her last hours
she died that same day
from the violence she had
suffered in body and mind
Nor was she the only victim
of that young nobleman
In the stables was a boy
of seventeen her brother
He was dying from a sword wound
It was while Dr Manette
was attending him
that he heard the full story from the
servant a man by the name of Gabelle
They were a family of
four, my master's tenants.
Which means that nothing they possessed
was their own, not even their bodies.
The law allows the father no right
to resist a claim on his daughter,
these nobles have the right
to harness their tenant to a cart
and drive him like a horse or dog!
That's what happened to their father.
This boy was set on revenge but
my master's a skilful swordsman
- Doctor!
- Yes. Yes, my poor fellow, I'm a doctor.
Lie quiet, now. Let me see to this.
- My sister?
- I've seen your sister.
She is... at peace now.
My other sister.
All alone.
There's a second sister.
Only fifteen, God help her.
Who told you to bring the doctor here?
Erm, Monseigneur, the
boy is suffering so much,
- I thought perhaps...
- Get out!
Doctor, you were not summoned here to
listen to the babblings of this hind.
You...
You promise?
This boy is dead.
I wish to impress upon you, Doctor,
that the things you have seen
and heard are not to be spoken of.
You would do well to mark that
Dr Manette had a conscience which
would not allow him to heed that warning
He decided it was his duty to write a
report of these events to the Minister
This action he confided
only to his servant Defarge
I'm telling you this, Defarge, because
I know what influence these nobles have.
Should I be prevented from
keeping my promise to that boy...
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