Book IChapter 4

The Preparation

Characters• Mr. Jarvis Lorry• Miss Manette• Strong Woman (Named Later)

Summary• Mr. Lorry arrives at the Royal George Hotel, the last

passenger to reach his destination.• Lorry waits around at the hotel until meeting up with one of

his clients, the young and pretty Miss Manette who reminds him of a young girl he once knew.

• Lorry tells Manette that he has handled her “deceased” father’s affairs through Tellson’s Bank for many years, and reports that he has been found alive, yet under a different name.

• Miss Manette’s maid enters and reprimands Lorry for breaking this shocking news to Manette in an unprofessional manner.

• Lorry implores the maid to accompany Manette and himself to France to retrieve her father, Dr. Manette.

Literary Devices• Simile: “Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes,

come easily off and on”.~Two unlike things are compared with “like”

Antithesis: “The best and worst are known to you now” (28).~Contrast of ideas, opposites in “best” and “worst”.

• Personification:”… the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly” (21).

~The sea is given human qualities such as having emotions to “like” something and being able to choose. Thus, the sea is not simply an act of nature, but a human-like entity that makes its own rules.

Essential Quotes“But he has been- been found. He is alive. Greatly changed, it is too probable; almost a wreck, it is possible; though we will hope the best. Still, alive. Your father has been taken to the house of an old servant in Paris, and we are going there. I, to identify him, if I can: you to restore him to life, love, duty, rest, comfort” (28).