A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Mr. Jarvis Lorry an official of Tellsons Bank in London who accompanies Lucie Manette to Paris. He has information that her father Dr. Alexandre Manette who had disappeared eighteen years ago is alive. He had been wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille and left there to die. Lucie is shaken when she learns that her father is still living. On reaching Paris they go to the house of Monsieur Defarge a wineseller. He had been Dr. Manettes servant and has taken