A Tale of Two Cities-CHAPTER 6 The Shoemaker

CHAPTER 6,The Shoemaker,`GOOD DAY!' said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at he white head that bent <sup>1</sup> low over the shoemaking.,It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance:,`Good day!',`You are still hard at work, I see?',The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement <sup>2</sup> and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity <sup>3</sup> was, that it was the faintness of solitude <sup>4</sup> and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago. So entirely <sup>5</sup> had it lost the life and resonance <sup>6</sup> of the human voice, that it affected <sup>7</sup> the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain. So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice under-ground. So expressive <sup>8</sup> it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished <sup>9</sup> traveller, wearied Out by lonely wandering in a wilderness <sup>10</sup>, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.,Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.,`I want,' said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, `to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?',The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then similarly, at the floor on the other side of him; then, upward at the speaker.,`What did you say?',We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们 。,He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁
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