Preview: Part II, Chapter 21
Reading boundary
Start: A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked
Stop after: when once stained red.
Years pass in the Soho corner as Lucie’s household grows and changes. Dickens uses the old image of echoing footsteps to move between intimate family time and gathering public history.
The chapter’s scale then widens to Saint Antoine. Tools, voices, and collective movement transform a crowd into an organized force, while Defarge’s personal history directs him within it.