Preview: Part III, Chapter 3
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Start: One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr. Lorry
Stop after: and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.
With Doctor Manette absent on his mission, Mr. Lorry must reconcile devotion to Lucie with his responsibility to Tellson’s. Finding the family safer lodging is practical work, but information about Darnay still depends on people whose motives are difficult to read.
Dickens uses formal business habits—housing, messages, identification—to expose emotional and political danger. Small gestures and repeated looks matter more than open declarations in this atmosphere.