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A Little Princess.chapter | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 2 using the context provided. | chapter 2|chapter 3 | Sara enters the classroom for the first time the next morning, and everyone checks her out because she's the new kid. Some of her classmates include: Lavinia Herbert and Lottie Leigh . Talk about multi-age classrooms. All the girls have been gossiping about Sara: she has a French maid and boxes full of ridiculously fri... |
----------CHAPTER 2---------
When Sara entered the schoolroom the next morning everybody looked at
her with wide, interested eyes. By that time every pupil--from Lavinia
Herbert, who was nearly thirteen and felt quite grown up, to Lottie
Legh, who was only just four and the baby of the school--had heard a
great dea... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 4 using the context provided. | chapter 4|chapter 14 | Miss Minchin kisses up to Sara all the time and compliments her because she wants her to stay at the boarding school--on account of all that money, of course. Whenever parents come, Sara is brought out to speak to them as evidence of how good the school is. That's bananas, of course, since Sara hasn't learned a thing a... |
----------CHAPTER 4---------
If Sara had been a different kind of child, the life she led at Miss
Minchin's Select Seminary for the next few years would not have been at
all good for her. She was treated more as if she were a distinguished
guest at the establishment than as if she were a mere little girl. If
she ha... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 19 using the context provided. | null | Sara tells the children in the Large Family all about her story, which they love--especially the part about the magical things that appeared in her attic room. Mr. Carrisford tells his part of the story and says that Ram Dass thought of the idea of sneaking over to Sara's room and making it magical and warm--and that M... |
----------CHAPTER 17---------
"It Is the Child!"
The next afternoon three members of the Large Family sat in the Indian
gentleman's library, doing their best to cheer him up. They had been
allowed to come in to perform this office because he had specially
invited them. He had been living in a state of suspense ... |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for act 4 based on the provided context. | act 4|act 1, scene 1 | Scene One Titania and Bottom, still with an asses head, enter the stage followed by Titania's fairies. Bottom asks the fairies to scratch his head, and is hungry for some hay. Titania, completely in love with him, orders the fairies to find him food. Together they soon fall asleep. Oberon enters and looks at his sleepi... |
----------ACT 4---------
ACT IV. SCENE I.
The wood. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA, lying asleep
Enter TITANIA and Bottom; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH,
MUSTARDSEED,
and other FAIRIES attending;
OBERON behind, unseen
TITANIA. Come, sit thee down upon this flow'ry bed,
While I thy... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of act 2, scene 2 using the context provided. | act 1, scene 2|act 2, scene 1|act 2, scene 2 | Titania instructs her fairies to dance and sing her to sleep. Afterwards, her attendants can go back to their fairy work and disappear. Oberon slips in and manages to get the pansy juice onto Titania eyes before running off. Lysander and Hermia come tripping in after Oberon exits. They're lost so they decide to stop fo... |
----------ACT 1, SCENE 2---------
SCENE II.
Athens. QUINCE'S house
Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
QUINCE. Is all our company here?
BOTTOM. You were best to call them generally, man by man,
according
to the scrip.
QUINCE. Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought
... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for scene 1 based on the provided context. | act 3, scene 1|scene 1|scene 2 | This scene opens in Theseus' palace in Athens. It is four days before his wedding to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons, and Theseus is impatient with how slowly time is moving. Hippolyta assures him that the wedding day will soon arrive. As Theseus and Hippolyta plan their wedding festivities, Egeus and his da... |
----------ACT 3, SCENE 1---------
ACT III. SCENE I.
The wood. TITANIA lying asleep
Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
BOTTOM. Are we all met?
QUINCE. Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for
our
rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn
brake our t... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of scene 1 using the context provided. | scene 1|scene 2 | This scene transports its viewers from Athens into the woods outside of the city, the dwelling place of Oberon, Titania, and their band of fairies. The scene begins with a conversation between Oberon's mischievous elf Robin Goodfellow, also known as Puck, and one of Titania's attendants. Puck warns her to keep Titania ... |
----------SCENE 1---------
ACT II. SCENE I.
A wood near Athens
Enter a FAIRY at One door, and PUCK at another
PUCK. How now, spirit! whither wander you?
FAIRY. Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, through fi... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for scene 1 with the given context. | scene 1|scene 2 | Bottom is enjoying his sojourn in Titania's bower: Peaseblossom amiably scratches his head, while Cobweb goes off in search of honey for him. As Bottom sleeps in Titania's arms, Oberon walks in. Feeling pity for Titania's pitiful love for this ass, Oberon squeezes an herb on her eyes to release her from the spell. Tita... |
----------SCENE 1---------
ACT III. SCENE I.
The wood. TITANIA lying asleep
Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
BOTTOM. Are we all met?
QUINCE. Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for
our
rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn
brake our tiring-h... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of act 1, scene 2, utilizing the provided context. | act 1, scene 1|act 1, scene 2 | A group of craftsmen have been instructed to present a play to honor Duke Theseus on his wedding day. They have decided on the play, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe. " As the scene opens, they are assigning the roles. Peter Quince seems to be the natural leader of the group, even ... |
----------ACT 1, SCENE 1---------
ACT I. SCENE I.
Athens. The palace of THESEUS
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and ATTENDANTS
THESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon; but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! She lingers my de... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of act 2, scene 2 using the context provided. | act 2, scene 1|act 2, scene 2 | Titania orders her fairies to sing a song and then proceed with their tasks of gathering canker from the musk-nose buds and making coats for themselves. Also, some of them must keep the roosting owls away so that she can sleep peacefully. As the fairies sing, Titania falls asleep. Oberon enters and squeezes the juices ... |
----------ACT 2, SCENE 1---------
ACT II. SCENE I.
A wood near Athens
Enter a FAIRY at One door, and PUCK at another
PUCK. How now, spirit! whither wander you?
FAIRY. Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thr... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of act 4, scene 1 using the context provided. | act 3, scene 1|act 4, scene 1|act 4, scene 2 | Titania is still under the spell and very much in love with Bottom, who continues to be the bully and enjoys the attention he gets. Oberon, who has been watching the pair from behind, comes forward, followed shortly afterwards by Puck. Oberon tells Puck that after taunting Titania about Bottom, he has asked for the boy... |
----------ACT 3, SCENE 1---------
ACT III. SCENE I.
The wood. TITANIA lying asleep
Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
BOTTOM. Are we all met?
QUINCE. Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for
our
rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn
brake our t... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of act 1, scene 2, utilizing the provided context. | act 1, scene 1|act 1, scene 2 | A group of artisans discuss the play they are going to perform as part of Theseus's wedding celebration. The play is entitled, "The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe." Peter Quince takes a roll call of the actors and hands out their parts. Bottom the weaver gets the leading role of Pyra... |
----------ACT 1, SCENE 1---------
ACT I. SCENE I.
Athens. The palace of THESEUS
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and ATTENDANTS
THESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon; but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! She lingers my de... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of act 2, scene 2 using the context provided. | act 2, scene 1|act 2, scene 2 | Titania bids her fairies sing her a lullaby, which sends her asleep. The fairies depart, and Oberon enters and squeezes the juice on Titania's eyelids. He tells her to awaken when some vile thing is near. Lysander and Hermia enter. They are lost, and decide to rest. Hermia insists that Lysander lie down some distance a... |
----------ACT 2, SCENE 1---------
ACT II. SCENE I.
A wood near Athens
Enter a FAIRY at One door, and PUCK at another
PUCK. How now, spirit! whither wander you?
FAIRY. Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thr... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for act 4, scene 2 based on the provided context. | null | Back in Athens, Quince, Flute, Snout and Starveling are desperate to find Bottom. If he cannot be located, they will have to cancel their play. Snug enters, with the news that the Duke has just left the Temple with several lords and ladies who have just been married. He regrets that their play is not going to happen, f... |
----------ACT 3, SCENE 1---------
ACT III. SCENE I.
The wood. TITANIA lying asleep
Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
BOTTOM. Are we all met?
QUINCE. Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place for
our
rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this hawthorn
brake our t... |
A Room With a View.part 2 | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of part 2, chapter 13, utilizing the provided context. | part 2, chapter 11|part 2, chapter 13 | While having tea with Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs. Honeychurch, and Cecil, Lucy keeps thinking about her reunion with George; nothing went as she had planned. Although she had rehearsed the meeting many times, she was not prepared for a boisterous, cheerful, and naked man. She did not feel in control of the situation. Mrs. B... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 11---------
The Comic Muse, though able to look after her own interests, did not
disdain the assistance of Mr. Vyse. His idea of bringing the Emersons to
Windy Corner struck her as decidedly good, and she carried through the
negotiations without a hitch. Sir Harry Otway signed the agreemen... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of part 2, chapter 16 using the context provided. | part 2, chapter 14|part 2, chapter 16 | Lucy tries to suppress her feelings. She thinks that she must at all costs rid herself of George and maintain her engagement to Cecil. She calls for Charlotte, and confronts her with the events of the novel. Lucy has correctly deduced that Charlotte must have told Miss Lavish about the kiss in Florence. Now, it becomes... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 14---------
Of course Miss Bartlett accepted. And, equally of course, she felt sure
that she would prove a nuisance, and begged to be given an inferior
spare room--something with no view, anything. Her love to Lucy. And,
equally of course, George Emerson could come to tennis on the Sunday
... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for part 2, chapter 17 based on the provided context. | part 2, chapter 17|part 2, chapter 20|part 2, chapter 11 | Cecil is horribly hurt, and he wants explanations. Lucy eludes him as long as she can, but finally she tells him many of the things that George has helped her to realize. Cecil is selfish, condescending, and cruel to other human beings. He is barbaric to women, and will not respect Lucy enough to let her decide how to ... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 17---------
He was bewildered. He had nothing to say. He was not even angry, but
stood, with a glass of whiskey between his hands, trying to think what
had led her to such a conclusion.
She had chosen the moment before bed, when, in accordance with their
bourgeois habit, she always dispen... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of part 2, chapter 14 using the context provided. | part 2, chapter 13|part 2, chapter 14 | Lucy is left to face the situation bravely. She has seen George Emerson again. His voice moved her deeply and she wished to remain near him, but rather than recognize that she is in love with him, Lucy tells herself it is a trick of the nerves. The house is full: Charlotte has arrived and is quickly on everyone's nerve... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 13---------
How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview! But she had
always rehearsed them indoors, and with certain accessories, which
surely we have a right to assume. Who could foretell that she and George
would meet in the rout of a civilization, amidst an army of coats
and c... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of part 2, chapter 17 using the context provided. | part 2, chapter 16|part 2, chapter 17 | Cecil is bewildered and hurt, and Lucy tries to explain her feelings. As Lucy asserts herself, it seems to Cecil that she has changed from a Leonardo painting to a living woman and become even more real and desirable. He exclaims that he loves her and presses her to tell why she doesn't love him. Lucy repeats to him th... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 16---------
But Lucy had developed since the spring. That is to say, she was now
better able to stifle the emotions of which the conventions and the
world disapprove. Though the danger was greater, she was not shaken by
deep sobs. She said to Cecil, "I am not coming in to tea--tell mother-... |
A Room with a View.part 2 | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for part 2, chapter 13 with the given context. | part 2, chapter 11|part 2, chapter 13 | Lucy is unhappy with the way her reunion with George went off. She had rehearsed the moment over and over in her mind but, as she observes, these things rarely turn out the way we plan them to. As Lucy ponders this dilemma, she is with Mrs. Honeychurch and Cecil, visiting an old friend, Mrs. Butterworth. Cecil hates vi... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 11---------
The Comic Muse, though able to look after her own interests, did not
disdain the assistance of Mr. Vyse. His idea of bringing the Emersons to
Windy Corner struck her as decidedly good, and she carried through the
negotiations without a hitch. Sir Harry Otway signed the agreemen... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of part 2, chapter 16, utilizing the provided context. | part 2, chapter 14|part 2, chapter 16 | Lucy realizes that Charlotte told Miss Lavish about the kiss, and confronts her cousin about it. Charlotte, embarrassed and upset, admits that she did. Lucy tells her about Kiss #2, then asks Charlotte for help talking to George. This time, though, Charlotte lamely backs out - feeling helpless and exposed, she asks Luc... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 14---------
Of course Miss Bartlett accepted. And, equally of course, she felt sure
that she would prove a nuisance, and begged to be given an inferior
spare room--something with no view, anything. Her love to Lucy. And,
equally of course, George Emerson could come to tennis on the Sunday
... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of part 2, chapter 17, utilizing the provided context. | null | This chapter details the somewhat awkward breakup of Lucy and Cecil. Surprisingly, Cecil takes it well. So well, in fact, that Lucy is irritated. Lucy allows herself to get upset, and, seeking an argument, attacks Cecil's attitude and opinions directly. At this last desperate moment, he actually feels something real an... |
----------PART 2, CHAPTER 17---------
He was bewildered. He had nothing to say. He was not even angry, but
stood, with a glass of whiskey between his hands, trying to think what
had led her to such a conclusion.
She had chosen the moment before bed, when, in accordance with their
bourgeois habit, she always dispen... |
A Study in Scarlet.part i | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of part i, chapter iv: what john rance had to tell, utilizing the provided context. | part i, chapter i: mr. sherlock holmes|part i, chapter iv: what john rance had to tell | Watson and Holmes left Lauriston Gardens around 1pm; Holmes mailed a telegram and the two men drove to the home of John Rance. Along the way Holmes explained to Watson how he had observed the multiple horses' hooves, the height of the murderer, and his age. He also offered the fact that he knew the writing on the wall ... |
----------PART I, CHAPTER I: MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES---------
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the
University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course
prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there,
I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fus... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for part i, chapter v: our advertisement brings a visitor with the given context. | part i, chapter v: our advertisement brings a visitor|part ii, chapter ii: the flower of utah | When Holmes and Watson returned to the house, Watson laid down to take a nap as his mind was tumultuous after the events of the morning. He meditated on the grotesque visage of the dead man and almost thanked the murderer for ridding the world of such a clearly malignant man. Of course, he did recognize that "justice m... |
----------PART I, CHAPTER V: OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR---------
OUR morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was
tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes' departure for the concert, I
lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep.
It was a useless attempt. M... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of part ii, chapter vii: the conclusion, utilizing the provided context. | null | Jefferson Hope's aneurism burst that evening; he was found in his cell, dead, with a placid expression upon his face. After a few pensive moments following the news, Holmes brightened and commenced explaining to Watson how he had put the pieces of the case together and found the murderer within three days. His skill ce... |
----------PART II, CHAPTER III: JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET---------
THREE weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had
departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him
when he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of
his adopted child. Yet her bri... |
A Tale of Two Cities.book | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 1, chapter 2 based on the provided context. | book 1, chapter 1|book 1, chapter 2|book 1, chapter 3 | The Mail Mr. Jarvis Lorry, a confidential clerk at Tellson's Bank of London, is on his way to Dover in a mail-coach. It is a cold night and he is wrapped up to the ears, so his physical appearance is concealed from his fellow-passengers, all of whom are strangers. The coachman fears his passengers just as they fear one... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 1---------
I. The Period
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was ... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 2, chapter 1 with the given context. | book 2, chapter 1|book 2, chapter 2 | Five Years Later The second book opens with a description of the venerable Tellson's Bank. Its darkness and discomfort are much beloved by those who work there. Indeed, their conviction that it should remain inconvenient and deteriorating is so strong that they would have disinherited a son who disagreed with them. Jer... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 1---------
I. Five Years Later
Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the
year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very
dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place,
moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in t... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 2, chapter 5 with the given context. | book 2, chapter 4|book 2, chapter 5 | The Jackal Mr. Stryver is prone to alcoholism, and he is a drinking companion of Mr. Carton's--they had been fellow students in Paris. Mr. Stryver, despite all of his capacity to push himself ahead, became a much more successful lawyer when Mr. Carton began working on and helping summarize his documents for him. Thus C... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 4---------
IV. Congratulatory
From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the
human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when
Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor
for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, ... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 2, chapter 10 with the given context. | book 2, chapter 8|book 2, chapter 10 | Two Promises A year later, Charles Darnay is back in England, happily working as a tutor of French. He has been in love with Lucie since he met her, and he finally asks her father for permission to make his feelings known to her. Despite Dr. Manette's hesitations, Darnay convinces him that his intentions are honorable ... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 8---------
VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.
Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas
and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On
inanimate nature, as on the men and ... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 2, chapter 12 with the given context. | book 2, chapter 11|book 2, chapter 12 | The Fellow of Delicacy On his way to Lucie's house in Soho to declare his intentions, Mr. Stryver passes Tellson's and decides to step inside to ask Mr. Lorry's opinion of the matter. Mr. Lorry expresses some politic confusion, and Stryver asks what could possibly be wrong with his proposal. After all, he is eligible, ... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 11---------
XI. A Companion Picture
"Sydney," said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his
jackal; "mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you."
Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before,
and the night before that, and a good ma... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 2, chapter 13, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 13|book 2, chapter 17 | The Fellow of No Delicacy Mr. Carton had never spoken well or made himself agreeable at the Manette household, but he used to haunt their street at night, dreaming of Lucie. One day he visits her and she asks him what the matter is. He claims that he is beyond help in his profligate ways, but he says his familiarity wi... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 13---------
XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the
house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year,
and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he
cared to talk, he talked well; but,... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 2, chapter 18 based on the provided context. | book 2, chapter 18|book 2, chapter 19 | Nine Days Everyone is happy on the wedding day, with the exception of Miss Pross, who still thinks that her brother, Solomon, should have been the groom. Mr. Lorry flirts with Miss Pross, reflecting that perhaps he made a mistake by being a bachelor. Charles Darnay reveals his identity to Doctor Manette, who looks quit... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 18---------
XVIII. 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 gr... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 2, chapter 20 based on the provided context. | book 2, chapter 20|book 2, chapter 22 | A Plea When the Darnays return from their honeymoon, the first person to greet them is Sydney Carton. He takes Charles aside and asks him to forget the fact that he ever said that he didn't like him. Charles assures him that it was enough that Sydney saved his life at the trial, and he gives Carton the privilege of com... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 20---------
XX. A Plea
When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to
offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home
many hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or
in looks, or in manner; but there was a certain ... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 2, chapter 23 based on the provided context. | book 2, chapter 23|book 3, chapter 2 | Fire Rises Saint Antoine is a changed place without Monseigneur, as France is a changed place without people of his class. Although he was source of oppression, he was also a source of pride and a symbol of luxury. Two "Jacques" figures greet each other in the countryside. One explains that he has been walking for two ... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 23---------
XXIII. Fire Rises
There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where
the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the
highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his
poor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body toge... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 3, chapter 3 based on the provided context. | book 3, chapter 3|book 3, chapter 4 | The Shadow Mr. Lorry worries that he is endangering Tellson's Bank by housing the wife of an emigrant prisoner, Lucie, in their lodgings. After shrewdly deciding not to ask Defarge for advice for fear that he might be wrapped up in the revolution, he finds Lucie, her daughter, the Doctor, and Miss Pross a suitable apar... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 3---------
III. The Shadow
One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr.
Lorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to
imperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under
the Bank roof. His own possessions, safety, li... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 3, chapter 5, utilizing the provided context. | book 3, chapter 5|book 3, chapter 6 | The Wood-Sawyer Lucie is unsure for one year and three months whether her husband has been alive or dead. She establishes a routine in their new home, and she keeps herself hopeful by setting aside a chair or books for her husband and otherwise behaving as if he lived there, too. Her father informs her that there is a ... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 5---------
V. The Wood-Sawyer
One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never
sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her
husband's head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the
tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 1, chapter 2 based on the provided context. | book 3, chapter 7|book 1, chapter 1|book 1, chapter 2 | Our friendly narrator sets the scene: it's a Friday night in November. We're on the Dover road. This should spark some bells for anyone who spent the summer traveling around Europe. Long, long ago, in the years before the Chunnel was built, people who wanted to travel to France took a boat from Dover to Calais. Based o... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7---------
VII. A Knock at the Door
"I have saved him." It was not another of the dreams in which he had
often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a
vague but heavy fear was upon her.
All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately
reven... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 1, chapter 3 with the given context. | book 1, chapter 3|book 2, chapter 1 | Let's all start with some philosophical reflections, shall we? If you really think about it, do you actually know the people around you? Do you really? If not, where does that leave you? Sad and lonely? Exactly. Our narrator starts out this chapter with some cheerful reflections. You don't know the people you love. Not... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 3---------
III. The Night Shadows
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is
constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A
solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every
one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own ... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 2, chapter 4 based on the provided context. | book 2, chapter 2|book 2, chapter 4 | As Lucie and her father step out of the courtroom, our narrator takes some time to catch us up on their lives. Dr. Manette is looking worlds better. Our narrator is pretty sure that this is all Lucie's doing: she's brought him back to life. Everyone congratulates everyone else on Darnay's release. Mr. Stryver, Darnay's... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 2---------
II. A Sight
"You know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?" said one of the oldest of
clerks to Jerry the messenger.
"Ye-es, sir," returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. "I _do_
know the Bailey."
"Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry."
"I know Mr. Lorry, sir, much better than ... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 2, chapter 8 using the context provided. | book 2, chapter 5|book 2, chapter 8 | The Marquis' carriage heads out into the country. As he drives, our narrator gives us a description of the land. It's parched and almost dead. All the crops that can be wrung out of the land have been grown and are slowly dying--like the poor people who farm them. Heading into the village, the carriage pauses. Our narr... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 5---------
V. The Jackal
Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is
the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate
statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow
in the course of a night, without any detriment to his... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 2, chapter 10 using the context provided. | book 2, chapter 10|book 2, chapter 11 | Back in England, Charles Darnay, ex-French aristocrat, is making a decent living as a tutor. What does he teach? French, of course. Everything's coming up roses for him. Sure, it's not as lucrative as a decades-old title, but he's making honest pay for an honest day's work. Also, he's madly in love with Lucie. That is ... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 10---------
X. Two Promises
More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles
Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French
language who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he
would have been a Professor; in that age, he was a T... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 2, chapter 12, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 12|book 2, chapter 13 | Mr. Stryver's decided to bestow his magnanimous offer on Lucie. We want to vomit just thinking of it. He offers to take her out--twice. Unaccountably, she refuses. Not to worry, though. Stryver's sure that he's going to win her over. He's on his way to Soho to visit Dr. Manette when he happens to walk by Tellson's. Sin... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 12---------
XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good
fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known
to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental
debating of the point, he came to the... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 2, chapter 17 using the context provided. | book 2, chapter 17|book 2, chapter 18 | London. The night before Lucie's wedding. Lucie sits by her father's side underneath a tree in their yard. She's very, very happy. She worries, however, that her father will be made unhappy by her upcoming marriage. Asking to be reassured that nothing will be changed by her marriage, she begs her father to tell her if ... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 17---------
XVII. One Night
Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in
Soho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat
under the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder
radiance over great London, than on that night when... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 2, chapter 20 using the context provided. | book 2, chapter 19|book 2, chapter 20 | The first person to visit Lucie and Darnay after they get married is Sydney Carton. Are you really surprised? Darnay is. He's even more surprised when Carton makes a rather strange request: he wants to be Darnay's friend. There's not exactly a ton of love lost between the two men, remember? Nonetheless, Carton wants to... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 19---------
XIX. An Opinion
Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the
tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun
into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark
night.
He rubbed his eyes and roused himself;... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 2, chapter 23 based on the provided context. | book 2, chapter 22|book 2, chapter 23 | We're back in the French countryside. It's just about as dismal as when we left it: there's no food, the crops are withered, and the people are in about the same condition as the crops. Despite this, things seem to have changed somehow. For years, Monseigneur has squeezed and starved the poor of the village. Now, howev... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 22---------
XXII. The Sea Still Rises
Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften
his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with
the relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame
Defarge sat at her counter, as usual, pres... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 2 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 2|book 3, chapter 3 | Tellson's has set up temporary offices in the abandoned palace of an aristocrat. From this rather inauspicious location, Mr. Lorry has been making lots and lots of financial decisions. Riches have to be preserved , papers have to be saved, even more papers have to be burned...all in all, he's been a pretty busy guy. Fo... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 2---------
II. The Grindstone
Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was
in a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from
the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to
a great nobleman who had lived in it until he made... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 3, chapter 4, utilizing the provided context. | book 3, chapter 4|book 3, chapter 5 | Dr. Manette doesn't return for four days. When he finally makes it back to the house, he tells Lucie a condensed version of what he's seen. Mr. Lorry, however, gets the full story: Dr. Manette went to the Tribunal that tries all the prisoners. He announced himself as a former prisoner of the Bastille, and was awarded s... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 4---------
IV. Calm in Storm
Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his
absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be
kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that
not until long afterwards, when France and sh... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 6 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 6|book 3, chapter 7 | It's the morning of Darnay's trial. Five judges sit at the Tribunal bench. The audience hall is packed with people here to see a show. One woman sits in the front row, knitting. Beside her, Darnay sees Defarge. Dr. Manette sits right beneath the president of the Tribunal, ready to testify. Darnay's charges are read: he... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 6---------
VI. Triumph
The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined
Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were
read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The
standard gaoler-joke was, "Come out and listen to the Even... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for chapter 2 with the given context. | book 3, chapter 15|chapter 1|chapter 2 | In England, the Dover mail coach makes its way up a hill one late November night. The foreboding atmosphere of night and mist makes everyone uneasy -- the passengers, the coachman, and the guard. Highway robberies are common, and the travelers are as wary of each other as they are of anyone else they might meet on the ... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 15---------
XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six
tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and
insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself,
are fused in the one realisation, ... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for chapter 3 with the given context. | chapter 3|chapter 1 | As the coach rattles its way toward Dover, Mr. Lorry dozes restlessly, reflecting upon his mission, "to dig some one out of a grave"who has been "buried alive for eighteen years."He envisions what the face of the man must look like and contemplates how severely the years may have affected him. Haunted by visions of the... |
----------CHAPTER 3---------
III. The Night Shadows
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is
constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A
solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every
one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; ... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for chapter 2 based on the provided context. | chapter 2|chapter 4 | Jerry is told to take a note to Mr. Lorry at the Old Bailey law court and to stay there until Mr. Lorry needs him. After arriving at the Old Bailey and giving the doorkeeper the note to deliver to Mr. Lorry, Jerry makes his way into the crowded courtroom. The court is hearing a treason case, punishable by the grisly se... |
----------CHAPTER 2---------
II. A Sight
"You know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?" said one of the oldest of
clerks to Jerry the messenger.
"Ye-es, sir," returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. "I _do_
know the Bailey."
"Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry."
"I know Mr. Lorry, sir, much better than I know t... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 5, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 5|chapter 8 | After a waiter at the tavern awakens him, Carton walks from the tavern to Stryver's chambers. The two work on some cases, with Carton doing the brunt of the work. When they finish, Carton and Stryver discuss their school days together and the differences in their fortunes -- how Stryver moved ahead in his profession wh... |
----------CHAPTER 5---------
V. The Jackal
Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is
the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate
statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow
in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputat... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for chapter 11 based on the provided context. | chapter 10|chapter 11 | The same night that Darnay makes his declaration to Doctor Alexandre Manette, Stryver tells Carton that he has decided to marry Lucie. Stryver feels that he is doing Lucie a favor by making her his wife; she is not rich, but she is "a charming creature"who will make a nice home for him. After describing how eligible an... |
----------CHAPTER 10---------
X. Two Promises
More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles
Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French
language who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he
would have been a Professor; in that age, he was a Tutor. He... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 12 using the context provided. | chapter 12|chapter 13 | Having decided to wed Lucie, Stryver heads to Soho to let her know of her good fortune. On the way, he drops by Tellson's Bank to share his marriage plans with Mr. Lorry. Rather than risk making Doctor Alexandre Manette or Lucie uncomfortable by receiving a proposal directly from Stryver, Mr. Lorry suggests that Stryve... |
----------CHAPTER 12---------
XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good
fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known
to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental
debating of the point, he came to the conclus... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 17, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 17|chapter 18 | The night before Lucie's wedding, she and her father sit outside and discuss her upcoming marriage. Lucie tells her father how happy she is and assures him that her love for Darnay will not interfere with their relationship. Doctor Alexandre Manette responds by telling her that marriage is a natural step for her to tak... |
----------CHAPTER 17---------
XVII. One Night
Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in
Soho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat
under the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder
radiance over great London, than on that night when it foun... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 19, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 19|chapter 20 | On the tenth morning, Doctor Alexandre Manette awakens fully recovered and unaware that anything unusual has transpired. Mr. Lorry tactfully conveys to the Doctor what has happened and asks what caused the relapse and how it can be prevented. The Doctor explains that he expected the relapse, which was caused by the rev... |
----------CHAPTER 19---------
XIX. An Opinion
Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the
tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun
into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark
night.
He rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he ... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 23, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 22|chapter 23 | One July day, a stranger approaches the road-mender and asks for directions to the Evremonde chateau. That night, four figures set fire to the chateau and the villagers watch it burn, making no effort to put it out despite the pleas of servants from the chateau. Excited by the destruction of the chateau, the villagers ... |
----------CHAPTER 22---------
XXII. The Sea Still Rises
Haggard Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften
his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as he could, with
the relish of fraternal embraces and congratulations, when Madame
Defarge sat at her counter, as usual, presiding ov... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for chapter 3 with the given context. | chapter 2|chapter 3 | Despite his personal devotion to Lucie and her daughter, Mr. Lorry recognizes as a businessman that keeping the family of a La Force prisoner at Tellson's could endanger the bank. Consequently, he finds a nearby apartment for them and leaves Jerry Cruncher there to protect them. The day drags on with no word from Docto... |
----------CHAPTER 2---------
II. The Grindstone
Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was
in a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from
the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to
a great nobleman who had lived in it until he made a fligh... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 4, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 4|chapter 5 | After four days, Doctor Alexandre Manette finally returns from the prison. He tells Mr. Lorry how he tried to influence the court tribunal to free his son-in-law, but only secured a guarantee of Darnay's safety. He also recounts the erratic behavior of the mob, which one minute would violently attack condemned prisoner... |
----------CHAPTER 4---------
IV. Calm in Storm
Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his
absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be
kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that
not until long afterwards, when France and she were f... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 6 using the context provided. | chapter 6|chapter 7 | At the trial the next day, Darnay offers an articulate and well-planned defense of himself. However, the jury remains unconvinced of his innocence until Doctor Alexandre Manette and Mr. Lorry testify on his behalf. The court spectators who called for Darnay's head at the beginning of the trial cheer wildly when the jur... |
----------CHAPTER 6---------
VI. Triumph
The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined
Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were
read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The
standard gaoler-joke was, "Come out and listen to the Evening Pape... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 1, chapter 1 using the context provided. | chapter 11|chapter 15|book 1, chapter 1 | The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. As its title promises, this brief chapter establishes the era in which the novel takes place: England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes--"It was the best ... |
----------CHAPTER 11---------
XI. Dusk
The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under
the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no
sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was
she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not ... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 1, chapter 2 with the given context. | book 1, chapter 2|book 1, chapter 3 | The Mail On a Friday night in late November of 1775, a mail coach wends its way from London to Dover. The journey proves so treacherous that the three passengers must dismount from the carriage and hike alongside it as it climbs a steep hill. From out of the great mists, a messenger on horseback appears and asks to spe... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 2---------
II. The Mail
It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November,
before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up
Shooter's Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by the sid... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for book 2, chapter 1 with the given context. | book 2, chapter 1|book 2, chapter 2 | Five Years Later It is now 1780. Tellson's Bank in London prides itself on being "very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. Were it more welcoming, the bank's partners believe, it would lose its status as a respectable business. It is located by Temple Bar, the spot where, until recently, the government disp... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 1---------
I. Five Years Later
Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the
year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very
dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place,
moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in t... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 2, chapter 5, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 4|book 2, chapter 5 | The Jackal Sydney Carton, the "idlest and most unpromising of men," makes his way from the tavern to Mr. Stryver's apartment. The men drink together and discuss the day's court proceedings. Stryver, nicknamed "the lion," compliments his friend, "the jackal," for the "rare point" that he made regarding Darnay's identifi... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 4---------
IV. Congratulatory
From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the
human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when
Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor
for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, ... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 2, chapter 8, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 8|book 2, chapter 10 | Monseigneur in the Country The Marquis arrives in the small village to which he serves as lord. There, too, the people live wretched lives, exploited, poor, and starving. As he looks over the submissive faces of the peasants, he singles out a road-mender whom he passed on his journey, a man whose fixed stare bothered h... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 8---------
VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.
Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas
and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On
inanimate nature, as on the men and ... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 2, chapter 12 using the context provided. | book 2, chapter 11|book 2, chapter 12 | The Fellow of Delicacy The next day, Stryver plans to take Lucie to the Vauxhall Gardens to make his marriage proposal. On his way, he drops in at Tellson's Bank, where he informs Mr. Lorry of his intentions. Lorry persuades Stryver to postpone his proposal until he knows for certain that Lucie will accept. This admoni... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 11---------
XI. A Companion Picture
"Sydney," said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his
jackal; "mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you."
Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before,
and the night before that, and a good ma... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 2, chapter 17, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 13|book 2, chapter 17 | One Night It is the eve of Lucie's marriage to Darnay. Lucie and her father have enjoyed long days of happiness together. Doctor Manette finally has begun to put his imprisonment behind him. For the first time since his release, Manette speaks of his days in the Bastille. In prison, he passed much time imagining what s... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 13---------
XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the
house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year,
and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he
cared to talk, he talked well; but,... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 2, chapter 18 using the context provided. | book 2, chapter 18|book 2, chapter 19 | Nine Days Darnay and Doctor Manette converse before going to church for Darnay's wedding to Lucie. Manette emerges "deadly pale" from this meeting. Darnay and Lucie are married and depart for their honeymoon. Almost immediately, a change comes over Manette; he now looks scared and lost. Later that day, Miss Pross and M... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 18---------
XVIII. 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 gr... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 2, chapter 20, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 20|book 2, chapter 22 | A Plea When Lucie and Darnay return home from their honeymoon, Sydney Carton is their first visitor. He apologizes for his drunkenness on the night of the trial and delivers a self-effacing speech in which he asks for Darnay's friendship: "If you could endure to have such a worthless fellow. coming and going at odd tim... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 20---------
XX. A Plea
When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to
offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home
many hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or
in looks, or in manner; but there was a certain ... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 3, chapter 2, utilizing the provided context. | book 2, chapter 23|book 3, chapter 2 | The Grindstone Lucie and Doctor Manette storm into the Paris branch of Tellson's Bank to find Mr. Lorry. They inform him that Darnay sits imprisoned in La Force. Manette remains confident that he can use his standing as a one-time prisoner of the Bastille to help rescue his son-in-law. Lorry sends Lucie into the back r... |
----------BOOK 2, CHAPTER 23---------
XXIII. Fire Rises
There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where
the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the
highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his
poor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body toge... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 4 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 3|book 3, chapter 4 | Calm in Storm Four days later, Manette returns from La Force. Lorry notes a change in the once-fragile Manette, who now seems full of strength and power. Manette tells him that he has persuaded the Tribunal, a self-appointed body that tries and sentences the revolution's prisoners, to keep Darnay alive. Moreover, he ha... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 3---------
III. The Shadow
One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr.
Lorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to
imperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under
the Bank roof. His own possessions, safety, li... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 6 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 5|book 3, chapter 6 | Triumph A motley and bloodthirsty crowd assembles at the trial of Charles Darnay. When Doctor Manette is announced as Darnay's father-in-law, a happy cry goes up among the audience. The court hears testimony from Darnay, Manette, and Gabelle, establishing that Darnay long ago had renounced his title out of disapproval ... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 5---------
V. The Wood-Sawyer
One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never
sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her
husband's head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the
tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 11 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 7|book 3, chapter 11 | Dusk The courtroom crowd pours into the streets to celebrate Darnay's condemnation. John Barsad, charged with ushering Darnay back to his cell, lets Lucie embrace her husband one last time. Darnay insists that Doctor Manette not blame himself for the trial's outcome. Darnay is escorted back to his cell to await his exe... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7---------
VII. A Knock at the Door
"I have saved him." It was not another of the dreams in which he had
often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a
vague but heavy fear was upon her.
All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately
reven... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 15 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 15|book 1 chapter 1 | The Footsteps Die Out Forever Crush humanity out of shape once more. and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of. oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind. Carton and the young seamstress reach the guillotine. The Vengeance and the other revolu... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 15---------
XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six
tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and
insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself,
are fused in the one realisation, ... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3 chapter 2 using the context provided. | book 3 chapter 2|book 3 chapter 3 | Lucie and Dr. Manette burst into Mr. Lorry's room in the Paris branch of Tellson's Bank. They tell him that the revolutionaries have imprisoned Charles and Mr. Lorry calms Lucie and she goes to rest in another room. Mr. Lorry informs Dr. Manette that the mob is butchering prisoners in the La Force prison. Dr. Manette i... |
----------BOOK 3 CHAPTER 2---------
II. The Grindstone
Tellson's Bank, established in the Saint Germain Quarter of Paris, was
in a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from
the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house belonged to
a great nobleman who had lived in it until he made ... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3 chapter 4 using the context provided. | book 3 chapter 4|book 3 chapter 5 | Four days elapse and finally Dr. Manette returns from the prison. He has tried to influence the court tribunal to release his son-in-law, but all he has achieved is his safety for the time being. He describes the situation as very volatile saying that the mob is acting erratically. Prisoners are condemned or freed at a... |
----------BOOK 3 CHAPTER 4---------
IV. Calm in Storm
Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his
absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be
kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that
not until long afterwards, when France and she... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for book 3 chapter 6 based on the provided context. | book 3 chapter 6|book 3 chapter 7 | Darnay defends himself in the court and makes a well-planned and well-rehearsed defense of himself. Both Dr. Manette and Mr. Lorry testify on his behalf. The spectators are impressed, and cheer wildly when the jury acquits him. He is reunited with Lucie and his daughter who are proud of what he has accomplished. |
----------BOOK 3 CHAPTER 6---------
VI. Triumph
The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined
Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were
read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The
standard gaoler-joke was, "Come out and listen to the Eveni... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3 chapter 15 using the context provided. | book 3 chapter 11|book 3 chapter 15|chapter 1: the period | The carts carrying the fifty-two prisoners trundle through the Paris streets and the people crowd round to see Evremonde go to his death. Carton ignores the yelling throng and focuses on the seamstress. He comforts her and recalls the resurrection passage from the Bible. The Vengeance is concerned at the absence of Mme... |
----------BOOK 3 CHAPTER 11---------
XI. Dusk
The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under
the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no
sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was
she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery a... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 3: the night shadows using the context provided. | chapter 2: the mail|chapter 3: the night shadows | The messenger, Jerry Cruncher, trots off into the darkness to deliver the message to the night watchman of Tellson's Bank. On the way, he stops a number of times to scratch his head and think about the perplexing message. In the coach, Mr. Lorry dozes and dreams about the man who has been all but buried alive in a pris... |
----------CHAPTER 2: THE MAIL---------
II. The Mail
It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November,
before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up
Shooter's Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by the s... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for chapter 2: a sight with the given context. | chapter 1: five years later|chapter 2: a sight | When he arrives at the bank, the clerk tells Jerry to go down to the courthouse, the Old Bailey, and wait for Mr. Lorry. The clerk gives him a note that he is supposed to pass to Mr. Lorry by way of the doorkeeper of the courthouse. The case being tried that day is for treason. The punishment is that the guilty be hang... |
----------CHAPTER 1: FIVE YEARS LATER---------
I. Five Years Later
Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the
year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very
dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place,
moreover, in the moral attribute that the par... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 5: the jackal using the context provided. | chapter 4: congratulatory|chapter 5: the jackal | Mr. Stryvers practice as a barrister has been rapidly increasing, probably due in part to his being loud-voiced and pushy. He is judged to be an intelligent lawyer who can extract the essentials from any information. He is also judged as bold and unscrupulous; perhaps that is why he is friendly with Mr. Carton. The two... |
----------CHAPTER 4: CONGRATULATORY---------
IV. Congratulatory
From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the
human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when
Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor
for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. S... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 8: the marquis in the country using the context provided. | chapter 8: the marquis in the country|chapter 10: two promises | The Marquis makes his way from Paris through the countryside towards the Evremonde family estate. The crops on the way look dried and withered, just like the peasants. When the carriage stops at a poor village, many peasants are at the fountain washing leaves or anything else that can be eaten. The Marquis gazes with c... |
----------CHAPTER 8: THE MARQUIS IN THE COUNTRY---------
VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.
Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas
and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On
inanimate nature... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for chapter 11: a companion picture based on the provided context. | chapter 11: a companion picture|chapter 12: the fellow of delicacy | Sydney Carton spends many long nights clearing up Mr. Stryver's legal matters before Stryver goes on his long vacation. Finally, on one such night after the work is complete, Mr. Stryver announces to Carton his intentions to marry. Mr. Stryver assumes that women find him tactful, ambitious, and successful and would be ... |
----------CHAPTER 11: A COMPANION PICTURE---------
XI. A Companion Picture
"Sydney," said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his
jackal; "mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you."
Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before,
and the night before that, ... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 17: one night, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 13: a fellow of no delicacy|chapter 17: one night | On the eve of her wedding day, Lucie is ecstatic and spends the entire evening with her father. As they sit in the courtyard, Lucie assures Dr. Manette that her love for Darnay will never replace or change the love she has for him. The Doctor is now happy about the marriage and states how fond he is of Darnay. One of h... |
----------CHAPTER 13: A FELLOW OF NO DELICACY---------
XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the
house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year,
and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he
cared to talk, he ... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 18: nine days using the context provided. | chapter 18: nine days|chapter 19: an opinion | On the morning of the wedding, Lucie, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Pross wait outside Dr. Manette's room. Inside, the Doctor and Charles Darnay are having a private conference. As they wait, Mr. Lorry cannot stop admiring Lucie; he grows sentimental and teary-eyed as he remembers how he brought her across from France when she w... |
----------CHAPTER 18: NINE DAYS---------
XVIII. 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... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 20: a plea using the context provided. | chapter 20: a plea|chapter 22: the sea rises | Carton drops in to see the newlyweds as soon as they get back from their honeymoon. His habits, manner, and looks have not changed. He tells Darnay that he wishes they were friends and apologizes for the remarks he had made after the trial when he was drunk. Darnay assures him that he has forgotten all about it, especi... |
----------CHAPTER 20: A PLEA---------
XX. A Plea
When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to
offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home
many hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or
in looks, or in manner; but there was a certain ... |
null | cliffnotes | Generate a succinct summary for chapter 2: the grindstone with the given context. | chapter 23: fire rises|chapter 2: the grindstone | Tellson's Bank in Paris is in a wing of a large house. In front of it is a courtyard that is shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate. The house had belonged to a nobleman who had fled France, running away from the troubles of his homeland. The house has been confiscated for use by the citizen-patriots... |
----------CHAPTER 23: FIRE RISES---------
XXIII. Fire Rises
There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where
the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the
highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his
poor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body ... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 4: calm in a storm, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 3: the shadow|chapter 4: calm in a storm | After four days, Dr. Manette finally returns from La Force. He tells of the horrors committed there by the mob and the thousands of people that have been killed. He has seen the self-appointed tribunal, which summarily tries the prisoners and sentences them to death. In an effort to save Darnay, he presents himself to ... |
----------CHAPTER 3: THE SHADOW---------
III. The Shadow
One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr.
Lorry when business hours came round, was this:--that he had no right to
imperil Tellson's by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under
the Bank roof. His own possessions, safety... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 6: triumph, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 5: the wood sawyer|chapter 6: triumph | Darnay is brought in front of the dreaded Tribunal. Looking at the jury and the onlookers, he feels as though the usual order has been reversed and that now the felons are trying the honest men. The men in the courtroom are armed with various weapons while the women are wearing knives and knitting. Darnay notices Defar... |
----------CHAPTER 5: THE WOOD SAWYER---------
V. The Wood-Sawyer
One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never
sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her
husband's head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the
tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemne... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 7: a knock at the door, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 7: a knock at the door|chapter 11: dusk | Though Darnay is safe for the moment, Lucie feels apprehensive and is still fearful he will be killed. Lucie and her husband stay in the lodge, living modestly. Not wanting to attract attention, they send Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher to do the shopping for the family. They wonder how soon it will be safe for them to l... |
----------CHAPTER 7: A KNOCK AT THE DOOR---------
VII. A Knock at the Door
"I have saved him." It was not another of the dreams in which he had
often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a
vague but heavy fear was upon her.
All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passi... |
A Vindication of the Righ | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of chapter 10, utilizing the provided context. | chapter 6|chapter 10 | Wollstonecraft thinks that a parent's affection for their children is actually just a blind form of self-obsession. In other words, parents who think their kids are perfect are thinking, deep down, that they are perfect. Mary also refers back to her earlier argument about parents being like tyrants, demanding blind obe... |
----------CHAPTER 6---------
Educated in the enervating style recommended by the writers on whom
I have been animadverting; and not having a chance, from their
subordinate state in society, to recover their lost ground, is it
surprising that women every where appear a defect in nature? Is it
surprising, when we co... |
Adam Bede.book 1.chapter | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 1, chapter 7 using the context provided. | book 1, chapter 3|book 1, chapter 7 | Hetty blushes when the Captain talks to her, and he is captivated by her kitten-like charm. The activity of butter-churning is perfectly suited to showing off her well-shaped arms. He invites the women to a dance on the 30th of June and asks for two dances from Hetty. Mrs. Poyser thinks that it will be much easier to b... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 3---------
IN less than an hour from that time, Seth Bede was walking by Dinah's
side along the hedgerow-path that skirted the pastures and green
corn-fields which lay between the village and the Hall Farm. Dinah had
taken off her little Quaker bonnet again, and was holding it in
her hand... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 1, chapter 9 using the context provided. | book 1, chapter 9|book 1, chapter 13 | Hetty has been extremely flattered by the Captain's attentions. She knows that many men like to look at her including Adam Bede, whom she finds quite manly, She also knows that her father would like her to marry Adam. Although Hetty did not like it when his attentions to her slipped, she is not in love with him-especia... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 9---------
WHILE she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant
butter as the primrose is set off by its nest of green I am afraid Hetty
was thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast
at her than of Adam and his troubles. Bright, admiring glances fr... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 7 using the context provided. | chapter 3|chapter 7 | "The dairy was certainly worth looking at" is how this chapter begins . Well, that had better be the case. Why else would it get a whole chapter? Yet Arthur, and Eliot, quickly abandon "the dairy" to stare at its pretty dairymaid. Hetty blushes deeply when handsome Arthur Donnithorne appears. Hetty is a babe. Even whil... |
----------CHAPTER 3---------
IN less than an hour from that time, Seth Bede was walking by Dinah's
side along the hedgerow-path that skirted the pastures and green
corn-fields which lay between the village and the Hall Farm. Dinah had
taken off her little Quaker bonnet again, and was holding it in
her hands that s... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for chapter 13 based on the provided context. | chapter 9|chapter 13 | There's "a slight quarrel" going on among the women of the Donnithorne estate . But Hetty--who'll be our eyes on the ground for this chapter--could care less. All Hetty can think of is her upcoming meeting. With Arthur. As she performs her duties around the Donnithorne estate, Hetty's "little butterfly soul" flutters "... |
----------CHAPTER 9---------
WHILE she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant
butter as the primrose is set off by its nest of green I am afraid Hetty
was thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast
at her than of Adam and his troubles. Bright, admiring glances from
a han... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of chapter 3 using the context provided. | chapter 3|book 1, chapter 3 | Seth sees Dinah home after the meeting; she is staying with her uncle and aunt, the Poysers, at the Hall Farm. He asks her to marry him, feeling her to be a beautiful soul, full of goodness. Dinah gently refuses, explaining that she wants to live without a family. Her whole life is dedicated to serving others, and she ... |
----------CHAPTER 3---------
IN less than an hour from that time, Seth Bede was walking by Dinah's
side along the hedgerow-path that skirted the pastures and green
corn-fields which lay between the village and the Hall Farm. Dinah had
taken off her little Quaker bonnet again, and was holding it in
her hands that s... |
null | cliffnotes | Create a compact summary that covers the main points of book 1, chapter 7, utilizing the provided context. | book 1, chapter 7|book 1, chapter 9 | Captain Donnithorne and Mrs. Poyser go to the dairy, where Captain Donnithorne first lays eyes on Hetty. A beautiful young girl, Hetty is the seventeen-year-old niece of Mr. Poyser. The Poysers took her in after she was orphaned, and she lives with them at Hall Farm and helps Mrs. Poyser with household chores. Captain ... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 7---------
THE dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for
with a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets--such coolness, such
purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of
wooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colour... |
null | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 1, chapter 13 using the context provided. | book 1, chapter 13|chapter 3 | Hetty walks home by the same route in the woods through which she came. At every turn, she hopes and prays to see Captain Donnithorne, but he is not there. She becomes so anxious that she begins to cry. She finally comes upon Captain Donnithorne, who is waiting for her. When Captain Donnithorne sees Hetty's tears, he a... |
----------BOOK 1, CHAPTER 13---------
IT happened that Mrs. Pomfret had had a slight quarrel with Mrs.
Best, the housekeeper, on this Thursday morning--a fact which had two
consequences highly convenient to Hetty. It caused Mrs. Pomfret to have
tea sent up to her own room, and it inspired that exemplary lady's mai... |
null | cliffnotes | Produce a brief summary for chapter 9 based on the provided context. | chapter 7|chapter 9 | Hetty's World The narrator decides to go beyond Hetty's pretty exterior to see what kind of a person she is inside. This chapter tracks her thoughts about what is going on around her, but unfortunately, the narrator concludes that Hetty does not have a very large range to her soul. She is mostly concerned with her own ... |
----------CHAPTER 7---------
THE dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for
with a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets--such coolness, such
purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of
wooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colouring of
r... |
Adam Bede.book 3.chapter | cliffnotes | Craft a concise overview of book 3, chapter 23 using the context provided. | book 3, chapter 23|chapter 23 | Adam is called to dine with the large tenants and feels uncomfortable leaving his family downstairs, but Seth encourages him to go. He walks up with Bartle. There was a small argument about who was to sit at the top of the table, because the butler felt strongly that the elder Mr. Poyser should. Bartle settles the matt... |
----------BOOK 3, CHAPTER 23---------
WHEN Adam heard that he was to dine upstairs with the large tenants, he
felt rather uncomfortable at the idea of being exalted in this way above
his mother and Seth, who were to dine in the cloisters below. But
Mr. Mills, the butler, assured him that Captain Donnithorne had giv... |
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