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In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.  \nIt was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. South  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 􀀔  \ncott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits ofthis very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately cometothe English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens ofthe Cock-lane brood.  \nFrance, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour toa dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers ofthe heavy lands  \n􀀍 A tale of two cities  \nadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuchas to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was tobe atheistical and traitorous.  \nIn England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers’ warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom h","cbCaicpEY6w3AU7X","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicpEY6w3AU7X","pdf",2061457,537,"English","# The Period\n## Contrasting England and France","[{\"question\":\"What theme does the opening of Book the First establish?\",\"answer\":\"It presents the era as a period of opposites—belief and disbelief, light and darkness, hope and despair—so similar to the present that its extremes feel recurring.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text compare England and France in this period?\",\"answer\":\"England is shown as uneasy and unsafe despite its claims of order, while France is depicted as politically and spiritually volatile, including sanctioned cruelty and social upheaval.\"},{\"question\":\"What specific historical time does the narrative name?\",\"answer\":\"It states that it is the year 1775, positioning the events within the atmosphere leading toward revolutionary transformation.\"}]","A Tale of Two Cities - Book the First - Recalled to Life | PDF",827]