A Tale of Two Cities-CHAPTER 18 NINE DAYS

NINE DAYS,The marriage-day was shining brightly, and they were ready outside the closed door of the Doctor’s room, where he was speaking with Charles Darnay. They were ready to go to church; the beautiful bride, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Pross—to whom the event, through a gradual process of reconcilement to the inevitable ¹, would have been one of absolute bliss ², but for the yet lingering consideration that her brother Solomon should have been the bridegroom.,“And so,” said Mr. Lorry, who could not sufficiently ³ admire the bride, and who had been moving round her to take in every point of her quiet, pretty dress; “and so it was for this, my sweet Lucie, that I brought you across the Channel, such a baby! Lord bless me! How little I thought what I was doing! How lightly I valued the obligation I was conferring on my friend Mr. Charles! ”,“You didn’t mean it,
” remarked the matter-of-fact Miss Pross, “and therefore how could you know it? Nonsense!”,“Really? Well; but don’t cry, ” said the gentle Mr. Lorry.,“I am not crying,
” said Miss Pross; “you are.”,“You were, just now; I saw you do it, and I don’t wonder at it. Such a present of plate as you have made ’em, is enough to bring tears into anybody’s eyes. There’s not a fork or a spoon in the collection, ” said Miss Pross, “that I didn’t cry over, last night after the box came, till I couldn’t see it.”,“I am highly gratified,
” said Mr. Lorry, “though, upon my honour, I had no intention of rendering ⁴ those trifling ⁵ articles of remembrance invisible to any one. Dear me! This is an occasion that makes a man speculate on all he has lost. Dear, dear, dear! To think that there might have been a Mrs. Lorry, any time these fifty years almost!”,“Not at all! ” From Miss Pross.,“You think there never might have been a Mrs. Lorry?
” asked the gentleman of that name.,“Pooh!” rejoined Miss Pross; “you were a bachelor in your cradle. ”,The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。,It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福 。