Preview: Part II, Chapter 17
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Start: Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory
Stop after: her lips had moved in praying for him.
On the evening before Lucie’s wedding, she and her father speak alone beneath the Soho plane-tree. The chapter gives their bond room to acknowledge both joy and the pain of changing a household restored with such care.
Doctor Manette’s account of his prison thoughts measures the present not only against suffering but against hopes he once feared could never be fulfilled.