Rokesmith found the matter very easy to explain to the satisfaction of
the police, but he told Bella nothing as yet, and, trusting and
believing in him absolutely, she waited in great wonder. Next day he
told her he had a new position and that now they must live in the city
where he had taken a furnished house for them.
They drove together to see it. Strangely enough it seemed to be in the
same street as Mr. Boffin's house, and stranger yet, the coach stopped
at Mr. Boffin's own door. Her husband put his arm around her and drew
her in, and she saw that everything was covered with flowers. As he led
her on she exclaimed in astonishment to see the little room full of
birds just as she had wished.
Suddenly her husband opened a door and there was Mr. Boffin beaming and
Mrs. Boffin shedding tears of joy, and folding her to her breast as she
said: "My deary, deary, deary, wife of John and mother of his little
child! My loving loving, bright bright, pretty pretty! Welcome to your
house and home, my deary!"
Then of course the whole story came out. The mystery was solved and she
knew that John Rokesmith was the true John Harmon and that her husband
was really the man the Harmon will had picked out for her to marry.
In the splendid Boffin house they lived happily for many years,
surrounded by Bella's children. And they were never so happy as when
they welcomed Eugene Wrayburn with Lizzie his wife, or Jennie Wren, the
little dolls' dressmaker.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
PUBLISHED 1859
_Scene_: London and Paris
_Time_: 1775 to 1792
CHARACTERS
Doctor Manette A French physician
Rescued after long imprisonment in the Bastille
Lucie His daughter
Miss Pross Her English nurse
Sydney Carton An idle and dissipated law student
Mr. Lorry The agent of an English bank doing
business in Paris
The Marquis de St. Evrémonde A French nobleman
Charles Darnay His nephew
A young Frenchman living in England as a tutor
Later, the Marquis de St. Evrémonde, and Lucie's
husband
Gabelle The steward of Darnay's French estates
Defarge A Paris wine shop keeper
A leader of the revolutionists
Madame Defarge His wife
Barsad A spy and turnkey
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
I
HOW LUCIE FOUND A FATHER
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