Preview: Part III, Chapter 9
Reading boundary
Start: While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room
Stop after: the paper was read, as follows.
As Carton finishes his private arrangement with Barsad, Mr. Lorry confronts Jerry Cruncher about the graveyard secret just exposed. Personal reckonings and practical plans unfold beside the larger crisis of Darnay’s coming trial.
The chapter links promises made years apart. Carton’s calm attention to time, access, and contingency contrasts with the tribunal’s public claims of evidence and authority.