TOTC Final Exam Review Flashcards
“It is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is forever in the way.”
Marquis
“I am bound to a system that is frightful to me. Unwillingly I am responsible for it, while I seek in vain for help to right the wrongs of the wretched peasants who cry to us for mercy.”
Charles Darnay
“Now, as to the future…would it not be better if these tools were put out of his way altogether? Are they not a constant reminder of the past?”
Mr. Lorry
“You will be good to my poor husband? You will do him no harm? You will help me see him if you can.”
Lucie Manette
“Ah! But it’s not my business. My work is my business. See my saw! I call it my little Guillotine.”
The Wood Sawyer
“My family was that peasant family so injured by the two Evremonde brothers. Those dead are my dead, and that call to take vengeance for their wrong is a call to me.”
Madame Defarge
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Sydney Carton
“I am Briton. I am desperate. I don’t care for myself. I know the longer I keep you here, the greater hope there is for my Ladybird.”
Miss Pross
Banker at Tellson’s Bank of London and a trusted friend of the Manettes
Mr. Lorry
“odd jobman” for Tellson’s and part-time graverobber
Jerry Cruncher
Wife of Charles Darnay
Lucie Manette
Refers to Lucie as“LadyBird”
Miss Pross
Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in Paris
Doctor Manette
Sentenced to death because the action of his father and uncle
Charles Darnay
Cruel member of the French aristocracy
Marquis
Drunken lawyer who takes Darnay’s place at the Guillotine
Sydney Carton
London trial lawyer
Stryver
Former servant of Dr. Manette and a leader of the French Revolution
Monsieur Defarge
Records Crimes Against The People In Her Knitting
Madame Defarge