Tale Quotes

THE SEA “The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown…” (Dickens 200)

THE CALM “Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound her husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and companion, in a life of quite bliss, Lucie sat in the still house in the tranquilly resounding corner, listening to the echoing footsteps of years…” (Dickens 190)

THE GUILLOTINE “The knitting-women count Twenty-two…” (Dickens 344)

“Already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and knife in it, terrible in history…” (Dickens 2)

THE GRINDSTONE “Shouldering one another to get next at the sharpening-stone were men stripped to the waist, with the stain all over their limbs and bodies; men in all sorts of rags, with the stain upon those rags; men devilishly set off with spoils of women’s lace and silk and ribbon, with the stain dyeing those trifles through and through. Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it…” (Dickens 239)

THE CARMAGNOLE “No fight could have been half so terrible as this dance. It was so emphatically a fallen sport- a something once innocent, delivered over to all devilry- a healthy pastime change into a means of angering the blood, bewildering the senses, and steeling the heart…This was the Carmagnole…” (Dickens 255)