[Illustration: "WHETHER HE WAS THE VICAR, OR MOSES, OR MR. BURCHILL, OR A CONGLOMERATION OF ALL FOUR, I KNEW NOT"--_The Ghost of Art_] [Illustration: "ARE YOU FROM THE COUNTRY, YOUNG MAN?" "YES," I SAY, "I AM"--_The Detective Police_] [Illustration: "IN ANOTHER ROOM WERE SEVERAL UGLY OLD WOMEN CROUCHING, WITCH-LIKE, ROUND A HEARTH, AND CHATTING AND NODDING, AFTER THE MANNER OF MONKEYS"--_A Walk in a Workhouse_] [Illustration: "MR. BLINKINS, ARE YOU ILL, SIR?"--_Our School_] [Illustration: HE TOOK HER IN HIS ARMS AND TOLD HER IT WAS FANCY--_A Christmas Tree_] A TALE OF TWO CITIES [Illustration] TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD [Illustration: MISS MANETTE CURTSIED TO MR. LORRY, WITH A PRETTY DESIRE TO CONVEY TO HIM THAT SHE FELT HOW MUCH OLDER AND WISER HE WAS THAN SHE. HE MADE HER ANOTHER BOW--Book 1, Chap. iv.] [Illustration: THE WINE SHOP--Book 1, chap. v.] [Illustration: THE SHOEMAKER--Book 1, chap. vi.] [Illustration: MESSRS. CRUNCHER AND SON--Book 2, chap. i.] [Illustration: AND SMOOTHING HER RICH HAIR WITH AS MUCH PRIDE AS SHE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE TAKEN IN HER OWN HAIR IF SHE HAD BEEN THE VAINEST AND HANDSOMEST OF WOMEN--Book 2, chap. vi.] [Illustration: THE LION AND THE JACKAL--Book 2, chap. v.] [Illustration: HE STOOPED A LITTLE, AND WITH HIS TATTERED BLUE CAP POINTED UNDER THE CARRIAGE. ALL HIS FELLOWS STOOPED TO LOOK UNDER THE CARRIAGE--Book 2, chap. viii.] [Illustration: DRIVE HIM FAST FROM THE TOMB. THIS FROM JACQUES--Book 2, chap. ix.] [Illustration: "THINK NOW AND THEN THAT THERE IS A MAN WHO WOULD GIVE HIS LIFE TO KEEP A LIFE YOU LOVE BESIDE YOU"--Book 2, chap. xiii.] [Illustration: "IT IS FRIGHTFUL, MESSIEURS. HOW CAN THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN DRAW WATER? WHO CAN GOSSIP OF AN EVENING UNDER THAT SHADOW?"--Book 2, chap. xv.] [Illustration: SAINT ANTOINE--Book 2, chap. xvi.] [Illustration: "STILL, THE DOCTOR, WITH SHADED FOREHEAD, BEAT HIS FOOT NERVOUSLY ON THE GROUND"--Book 2, chap. xix.] [Illustration: DRAGGED, AND STRUCK AT, AND STIFLED BY THE BUNCHES OF GRASS AND STRAW THAT WERE THRUST INTO HIS FACE BY HUNDREDS OF HANDS--Book 2, chap. xxii.] [Illustration: AMONG THE TALKERS WAS STRYVER, OF THE KING'S BENCH BAR ... BROACHING TO MONSEIGNEUR HIS DEVICES FOR BLOWING THE PEOPLE UP, AND EXTERMINATING THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.--Book 2, chap. xxiv.] [Illustration: SOME REGISTERS WERE LYING OPEN ON A DESK AND AN OFFICER OF A COARSE DARK ASPECT PRESIDED OVER THESE--Book 3, chap. i.] [Illustration: THE GRINDSTONE--Book 3, chap. ii.] [Illustration: THE CARMAGNOLE--Book 3, chap. vi.] [Illustration: HERE MR. LORRY BECAME AWARE, FROM WHERE HE SAT, OF A MOST REMARKABLE GOBLIN SHADOW ON THE WALL--Book 3, chap. x.] [Illustration: TWICE HE PUT HIS HAND TO THE WOUND IN HIS BREAST, AND WITH HIS FOREFINGER DREW A CROSS IN THE AIR--Book 3, chap. x.] [Illustration: THE TRIAL OF EVRÉMONDE--Book 3, chap. ix.]