The Narrator

"A gentleman and lady are proceeding toward the grating"

"The wood had a most respectable appearance"

"The night was dark and misty, as if the very air was troubled"

"The last and the first shall be as one"

"The sea was our only road, and it was long and dark"

"The knitting done, the pattern was complete"

"Better to be remembered as having lived well than to live long"

"The door was barred, and none could enter save those who carried the token"

"In her face was written the story of her suffering"

"The way was long, but the heart was willing"

"Hope was the last thing to die in her breast"

"All is lost except the will to endure"

"I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

"A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret"

"The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street"

"One creature in the crowd stood out with a most remarkable face"

"Men pay a price for their sins"

"In the shadow of the guillotine, all men are equal"

"The knitting had begun again that night"

"Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

"Whenever the weather is fair and settled, you'll see the poor gathering in groups."

"The night was dark and wet, as though the heavens wept."

"The wine shop was a dark and damp place, where secrets festered."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"Resurrection was the great theme of that age."

"Recalled to life was the cry that echoed through the streets."

"The dread tribunal of justice waits for no man."

"The sea of human blood has not run out."

"There is a nobleness in knowing one's place and serving it well."