Preview: Part III, Chapter 2
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Start: Tellson’s Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris
Stop after: with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.
Tellson’s Paris branch occupies a confiscated nobleman’s house in a city where old luxury has been repurposed by the Revolution. Mr. Lorry’s protected workplace will become a vantage point from which private loyalty confronts public violence.
As familiar characters gather, doors and windows limit what can safely be seen. Dickens builds the chapter around a literal tool whose ordinary purpose takes on a terrifying collective meaning.