Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities Author:Charles Dickens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: There was an immediate dispersal for these restoratives, and she softly laid the patient on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness; calling her "... more »my precious!" and "my bird! '' and spreading her golden hair aside over her shoulders with great pride and care. " And you in brown! " she said, indignantly turning to Mr. Lorry; " couldn't you tell her what you had to tell her, without frightening her to death ? Look at her, with her pretty pale face, and her cold hands. Do you call that being a banker ? '' " I hope she will do well now," said Mr. Lorry. " No thanks to you in brown, if she does." " I hope," said Mr. Lorry, after another pause of feeble sympathy and humility, " that you accompany Miss Manette to France?" " A likely thing, too! " replied the strong woman. "If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island ? '' This being another question hard to answer, Mr. Jarvis Lorry withdrew to consider it. CHAPTER III. THE WINE SHOP. A Large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine shop, shattered like a walnut shell. All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular stones of the street, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its little jostling group or crowd, according to its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to helpwomen, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers. Ot...« less