Pleasure Reading . "A Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens. Preface and Chapters 1-6

The story begins in the year of 1775 during the paradoxical period ( “the best of times and worse of times”)  in the decade of the struggle between crowns of France and England. That was the time of robberies and criminal bloom, the governmental ignorance to the state of affairs – typical for that century.  It was a foggy November evening and a group of people, travelling from the city of London to Dover with a message, had to be very suspicious and provident – because of times of thieves, assassins and other Dirt. After some time of climbing up the hill, outside the carriage ( it was overloaded with goods and other miscellaneous items) they had met a horse-rider with a special delivery ( it wasn’t a robber, like the thought, but Jerry, an odd-worker from Dover ) to Mr. Jarvis Lorry. The note that Jerry passed him was from Tellson and said to wait at Dover at Mam’ selle . Lorry instructs Jerry to return to Tellson’s with this reply: “Recalled to Life.” Confused and troubled by the “blazing strange message”. After that, their mail coach continued its way and our hero Lorry went inside his mind with a deep leap drifting in and out of dreams, most of which revolve around the workings of Tellson’s bank, but he also had another mysterious image inside his head, the notion that he made his way to dig someone out of a grave. He imagined repetitive conversations with a specter, who told Lorry that his body had lain buried nearly eighteen years. He  sometimes claimed that he would die were he to see a woman too soon; at other times, he wept to see her immediately. After the arrival at Dover, Lorry decided to visit Lucie, the key figure in this deal. That afternoon, a waiter announced that Lucie Manette had arrived from London ( a young 17-years old woman, “short, slight and pretty nice”). Finishing his business duties at the bank, Mr. Lorry decided to break a seal of hidden truth to young Lucie, telling her, that Tellson had summoned her, because her father, once a reputed doctor, had been found alive ( he was jailed in France for a long time and at that time was released  and was taken to house of an old servant in Paris ) . And our heroes decided to go there to find Lucie’s father. The further events took place in Saint Antoine, a suburb of Paris, dirty and self-destructed from the power of times and cruel “society”. The went to wine shop, owned by Monsieur Defarge and his wife  .The men had a talk and then went to a filthy landing, where the three men from the wine shop stand staring through chinks in the wall and finally Defarge opened the door to reveal a white-haired man busily making shoes.  Because of his long imprisonment, Doctor Manette entered a form of mental damage with making shoes, a trade he had learned while in prison. At first, he couldn't recognize his daughter  but then he eventually compared her long golden hair with her mother's which was in the amulet and the he finally noticed their similar blue eye colour. And after some time of agony of mind and resurrection of feelings , Lorry and Lucie took her father back to London.