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  TALE OF TWO CITIES   by Charles Dickens Book One Recalled to life Summary In 1775 Jerry Cruncher a porter of Tellson’s bank in London stops the night mail which travelling from London to Dover. He has a message for Jarvis Lorry manager of the bank. Mr. Lorry returns Jerry with the strange response “Recalled to life”. This is referring to Alexandre Manette. He is a French physician. He has been freed from the Bastille Prison after suffering for 18 years. Now Mr. Lorry meets Dr.Manette’s daughter Lucie and her governess Miss.Pross. Lucie is shocked and surprised to hear that her father is alive. They reunite in France. In Paris Dr.Manette has been given shelter by his former servant Ernest Defarge and his wife Therse. Lucie finds her father spending time in cobbling shoes which he learned in prison for years. That gives a relax to him. He slowly remembers his daughter Lucie as she resembles his dearest wife. Lucie has pretty blue eyes and long golden hair. Lu...

  Once Upon a Time Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow. There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts: but that’s gone, son. Now they shake hands without hearts while their left hands search my empty pockets. ‘Feel at home!’ ‘Come again’: they say, and when I come again and feel at home, once, twice, there will be no thrice- for then I find doors shut on me. So I have learned many things, son. I have learned to wear many faces like dresses – homeface, officeface, streetface, hostface, cocktailface, with all their conforming smiles like a fixed portrait smile. And I have learned too to laugh with only my teeth and shake hands without my heart. I have also learned to say,’Goodbye’, when I mean ‘Good-riddance’: to say ‘Glad to meet you’, without being glad; and to say ‘It’s been ni...

  Breakfast He poured coffee                       into his cup He put milk in his cup of coffee He put sugar in his cup of coffee and milk    With his teaspoon He stirred it He drank the coffee and milk and he put down the cup Without speaking to me He lit a cigarette He made rings with the smoke                                                                 He put the ashes in the ash-tray without speaking to me without looking at me He got up He put His hat on his head He put on His raincoat because it was raining and he went out in the rain without a word without a look. And I, I put My head in my hands and wept.                          Jacques prevert    ...