A Tale of Two Cities-CHAPTER 4 Congratulatory

CHAPTER 4,Congratulatory,FROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment ¹ of the human stew ² that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor ³ for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr. Charles Darnay--just released--congratulating him on his escape from death.,It would have been difficult by a far brighter light, to recognise in Doctor Manette, intellectual of face and upright of bearing, the shoemaker of the garret in Paris. Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without liking ⁴ again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence ⁵ of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason. While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always--as on the trial--evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.,Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery ⁷, and to a Present beyond his misery: and the sound of her voice, the light of her face, the touch of her hand, had a strong beneficial influence with him almost always. Not absolutely always, for she could recall some occasions on which her power had failed; but they were few and slight, and she believed them over.,Mr. Darnay had kissed her hand fervently ⁸ and gratefully, and had turned to Mr. Stryver, whom he warmly thanked. Mr. Stryver, a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout ⁹, loud, red, bluff ¹⁰, and free from any drawback of delicacy ¹¹, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life.,`You have laid me under an obligation to you for life-in two senses,' said his late client, taking his hand.,`I have done my best for you, Mr. Darnay; and my best is as good as another man's, I believe.',It clearly being incumbent ¹⁵ on some one to say, `Much better,' Mr. Lorry said it; perhaps not quite disinterestedly <sup>16</sup>, but with the interested object of squeezing himself back again.,`You think so?' said Mr. Stryver. `Well! you have been present all day,, and you ought to know. You are a man of business, too.,`And as such,' quoth Mr. Larry, whom the counsel learned in the law had now shouldered back into the group, just as he had previously ¹⁷ shouldered him out of it--`as such I will appeal to Doctor Manette, to break up this conference and order us all to our homes. Miss Lucie looks ill, Mr. Darnay has had a terrible day, we are worn out.',Sediment begins to choke the channel's opening.沉积物开始淤塞河道口。,The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌 。