JERRY CRUNCHER: After the wedding Mr. Darnay told Dr. Manette, that he was the indeed the nephew of the Marquis Saint Evrémonde. Imagine that! The nephew of the man that locked him away for 18 years was now his son-in-law!  Who would of thought! Anyway, almost immediately, a change came over Dr. Manette. His eyes kind of swirled about in his head and he looked awful lost. I heard that later that night Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry found Dr. Manette in the basement with his shoemaker's bench again. Tap tap tap. Poor Dr. Manette!

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     Now I was hoping  that this would be my last trip to Paris, but Mr. Lorry said business is business and that I had to go. The countryside laid in ruins and streets were desolate. When I got to Tellson’s I heard that the Defarges were at the Marquis’s home last night. They went there, looking for Gabelle, the Marquis’s servant. They found him huddled in the courtyard trying to hide from the revolutionaries. Madame Defarge forced him to write a note to Mr. Darnay, pleading him to come back to France and rescue him from certain death. He reluctantly wrote the letter and as soon as he finished they had a messenger deliver it to London and Gabelle was taken off to prison. The Defarges then set the house on fire. I can still see the flames. It was a sight! Like Souls dancing in the sky!