Texas Farm and Industrial News (Sugar Land, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS FARM AND INDUSTRIAL NEWS
CONDENSED
CLASSICS
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A TALE OF
TWO CITIES
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By CHARLES DICKENS
Condtntallor hv Min Sara A. Hamlin
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Charles John Huf
fam * Dickeris wap
born Feb. 7, 1812, at
Portsei, England
where his father
was a • terfc in fhe
navy pny offlee. He
died ' at Gad
Place, in Kent, on
June 9, 1870..
His 'dream of
writing came tc
him early when as
a boy he read
breathlessly t h e
battered novels in
his father’s library.
He became a re-
to England as a private gentleman,
eager to begin life anew.
Sydney Carton was a young English j
lawyer, brilliant In intellect, but stead- ,
lly deteriorating through his life of
dissipation, able to advise others but
unable to guide himself, “conscious of ;
the blight on him and resigning him-
self to let it eat him away.”
He and Darnny soon became fre-
quent visitors at the small house In
Soho square, the home of Dr, Manette j
and his daughter. Through Lucie’s
care and devotion, the Doctor had al-
most -wholly recovered from the effects J
of his long imprisonment, and It was
„,)!> in times of. strong excitement that
any trace of his past insanity could be
detected. The sweet face of Lucie
\L.ne!Ye soon won' tin- hearts of both I
the young men, but it was Daimay to
whom she gave her love.
And so that interview between Lucie
and Sydney Carton has a pathos that
wrings our hearts." He knew tjuit pven
if his love could have been returned', It
Gadshtlbi iV0U|,] pave added only to his bitter- ,
ness, and sorrow, for he felt it would j
have been powerless to lift him from
the slough of Selfishness and Sensu-
alitv that had engulfed him. Hut he
could not resist this Inst sad confes-
sion of his love; and when she weeps
at the sorrow of which she has been
He oeianie a »c- jhe innocent cause, he Implores. Do
porter on.the -Lou* not weep; dear Miss Manette; the,life
don newspapers, - * ------
and wrote tlS36)
’’Sketches by Boz,"
wherein are, ir
miniature, all. the
abounding virtues
of his novels.
The "Pickwick
Papers” (183-7) were
a great success.
Their
. ....... inimitable
rollicking humor captivated the Englisn sors.
reading wotSd. His first extended nove with
was “Oliver Twist” (1838), followed by
“Nicholas Nickleby" (1838-39). "Old Cun-
sr srisLKrJSSf'A-: 1
novels, the last, “The Mystery of Edwin her work the names of her hated
Drood" (1870), being unfinished. "David | pnem|est put axe in hand and knife at
her belt, headed a frenzied mob of
I lead renders me unworthy of your
pure love. My last supplication Is this:
Think now and then that theft’ is a
man Who would give his life to keep
a life you love beside you.”
But dark days were to come. In the
year 1789 the downtrodden French
peasantry turned upon their oppres-
The streets of Parts were filled
crowds uf people whose eager
cry was for “blood.” Madame Defarge
no longer sat behind the counter of her
Copperflcld" (1859-60), held by many to be
his masterpiece, and by not a few to be
the greatest story ever written, la sup
posed to be semi-autobiographical. Many
of his novels, were published in install-
ments, and never before or since has any
literary publication excited such a furore.
After his initial successes Dickens' life
women on to the Bastile. Yhe French
Revolution had actually begun.
Madame Defarge was one of the
leading spirits of the Revolution.
Early in life she had seen her family
After his initial successes uicaens • , r.any )u me sue uuu ow .....---»
■was a triumphal procession, saddened f!ll] victjnls. t0 the tyranny and lust Of
mly by domestic unhappiness. He visited t _____, .wx|4n5*,. OTWi frr»m thnt time
/Jltnerica, where his works were even
more popular than in England, in 1842 and
1867-68
* «c wrote in his will his own best epi-
taph: "I rest my claims to the remenv
trance of my country on my published
works” He might well have substituted
"the world" for “my country."
Perhaps the quality that distinguishes
jhls novels among all others Is then
Abounding humor.
o
yN a cold November night. In the
year 1775, the English mall
coach, on Rs way from LondoD
to Dover, was carrying among Its pas-
sengers a Mr. Jarvis Lorry, a London
banker of the well-known Arm of
Tellson & Co. As the coach stumbled
?fire»,)fl..t4fijlarkneSs. there arose be-
flgure with hair prematurely white.
All night between him and the spectre
the same words repeated themselves
again and again.
“Burled how long?”
“Almost eighteen years."
“I hope you care to live?"
“I can’t say.”
About eighteen years before the
story opens, Dr. Manette, a prominent
young physician of Paris, • had sud-
denly disappeared. Everything was
done to discover some trace of him
The loss of her husband
"he cruel nobility and from that time
her life had been devoted to revenge.
Three years of crime and bloodshed
passed, and in 1792 Mr. Jarvis Lorry
and Charles Darnay landed in Paris,
he former to protect the French
»rnnch of Tellson & Co., and the latter
to befriend an old family servant who
had besought his help. Not until they
aid set foot In Paris did they realize
into what a caldron of fury they had
plunged. Mr. Lorry, on account of his
business relations, was allowed his
freedom, but Darnay was hurried at
mice to the prison of La Force, there
o await his trial. The reason given
fur the outrage was the new law for
the arrest of all returning French
.'migrants, hut the true cause was that |
" . —-'oonlzed as Charles
Evremonde.
These tidings soon reached Londoh,
and Dr. Munette, with his duughter
Lucie, hastened to Paris, for he felt
Sure that his long confinement In the
Bustlle would win for him the sym-
pathy of the French people, and thus
enuble him to suve his son-in-law.
Days and months passed, and although
the Doctor succeeded In gaining a
promise, that Darnay’s life should be
spured, the latter was not allowed to
leave his prison.
but In vain. The loss of her husband At jagt came the dreadful year of
caused his wife such anguish that she 1 (he jielgn of Terror.. The sympathy
resolved to bring up her little daughter wh((h at flrgt had been given to Dr.
* Which at first had been given to or.
In ignorance of her fathers fate; and Mnnett|l had become weakened through
when In two yeurs she died, she left (he ,nfluence of the bloodthirsty
little Lucie under the guardianship ol Ma(fanMf nt,fttrge. Also, there had been
Tellson & Co., to whose care Dr ftiun(j (n ruins of the Bnstlle a pa-
Manette for many years had Intrusted
his financial affairs.
i i>er which contained Dr. Manette’s ao-
n mubuv-.o. : count of his own abduction and lm-
Strange tidings concerning the Doc- ,)rlsontaeIlt, and pronouncing a solemn
’ tor had just come from Paris, and Mr >ur8e upon -j,e House of Evremonde i
Lorry, was on his way to meet hisan(, thelr descendants, who were de-!
ward, and explain to her the facts ol clared to be the authors of his eighteen
her early life. This was a duty from VPars of ml9ery. Charles Darnay’s
which the kind-hearted banker shrank ‘doom was sealed. “Back to the Con-
and when he saw the slight golden- <clergprie and death within twenty-four
haired girl who came to meet him, his ,_______ „
heart almost failed him; but his task
was accomplished at last.
“And now,” concluded Mr. Lorry,
“your father has been found. He 1?
alive, greatly changed, hut alive. He
has been taken to the house of a for-
mer servant In Paris, and we are going
there. I to Identify him, you to re-
store him to life and love."
The servant that sheltered Dr. Mn-
nette was a man .by the name of De-
farge who, with his wife, kept a wine-
shop In the obscure district of St. An-
toine. The bauker and I.ucle were
takeu to an attic where a haggard,
white-haired' man sat on a low bench,
making shoes, a wreck of a man, ob-
livious of all around him.
Again was the Chaane! crossed, and
Again the old Inquiry whispered In the
ear of Jarvis Lorry;
“I hope you care to be recalled to
life?”
“I can’t say.”
Five years later, In the court room
of the Old Bailey In London, ’n young
.Frenchmuu was on trlul for his life.
Near him sat an untidy looking Indi-
vidual by the name of Sydney Carton.
-With his eyes fixed on the celling, he
was unobservant, apparently, of . all
that passed around him; hut It was’he,
who, first noticing the extraordinary
resemblance between the prisoner and
himself, rescued Charles Darnay from
the web of deceit which had been spun
around him.
Between these two young men, the
striking resemblance was In outward
appearance only. Charles Darnny was
of noble birth; but his ancestors had
for many years so cruelly oppressed
the French peasantry that the name of
JBvrmnoade was hated and despUsd
Wholly unlike them in character, this
loot descendant of Ills race had given
gp his name and estate, and had atm
hours.
To Sydney Carton, who had followed
his friends to Paris, came an Inspira-
tion. Had he not promised Lucie that
he would die to save a life she loved?
By bribery, he gains admittance to the
prison; Darnay is removed unconsdods
from the cell, and Carton sits down to
await his fate.
Along the Paris streets six tum-
brils are carrying the day’s wine to la
guillotine. In the third car sits a young
man with his hands bound. As th«
cries from the street arise against him
they only move him to a quiet smile os
he shakes more loosely his hair about
bis face.
Crash 1 A head Is held up and the
anlttlng women who are ranged a boot
the scaffold count "One."
The third cart comes up and the srup-
!>osed Evremonde descends. His Ups
move, forming the words, “a life you
love.”
The murmuring of many voices, the
upturning of many faces, then all
hashes away.
“Twenty-three!’’
“1 am the resurrection and th^ltfe,
siflth the Lord; he that belleveth in
me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live; and whosoever Uveth and be*
lleveth In me shall never die."
Copyright, 1911, by the Poet Publishing
Co. (Ths Boston Post.) Copyright In
the United Kingdom, the Dominions,
Its Colonise and dependencies, under
ths oopyrlght act, by ths Post Pub-
lishing Co., Boston. Mess.. U. *. A.
All rights reserved.
Nells does Like Met Cakes.
“You say this Is the only autograph
of Charlemagne In existence?" naked
the customer suspiciously.
"It Is."
“It must he very desirable."
“Yea," said the ahseiiNiilnded sals#
aan. “We’re selling lots of ’em."
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