Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

1. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book 2, Chapter 24 TJ O’Hagan

2. Characters Charles Darnay Mr. Lorry Mr. Stryver (briefly)

3. Summery Three years have passed and Political turmoil continues in France. England has become a refuge for persecuted aristocrats. Tellson’sBank has become a gathering place for Monseignur Tellson decides to sent Mr. Lorry to the Paris branch to protect important ledgers, papers, and records from being destroyed. Darnay tries to convince Lorry not to go, but Lorry insists he must go and he will bring Jerry Cruncher as a body guard. Lorry receives an urgent letter, addressed to the Marquis St. Evremonde. Lorry stresses the importance of locating the Marquis, who has abandoned the estate willed to him. Darnay to keep his identity a secret says he knows the Marquis and will deliver the message to him.

4. Summery Cont. Stryver then says to Darnay that he is sorry that he knows such a man and then begins to criticize the Marquis. Darnay then takes the letter and reads it. Darnay tells Lorry that he has delivered the message and that the Marquis will leave for France tomorrow night. It is a plea from Gabelle to come free him because he was imprisoned by the revolutionaries for upkeep of the Marquis property. Darnay decides to return to France to free Gabelle, after writing a farewell letter to Lucie and Dr. Manette he departs.

5. Literary Devices Imagery-”The Lord above knows what the compromising consequences would be to numbers of people, if some of our documents were seized or destroyed; and they might be, at any time, you know, for who can say that Paris is not set afire to-day, or sacked to-morrow!”(245) Alliteration-”This, That, and The Other, all had something disparaging to say, in French or in English, concerning the Marquis who was not to be found” (248) Irony-”Then I tell you again, Mr. Darnay, I am sorry for it. I am sorry to hear you putting any such extraordinary questions. Here is a fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code of devilry that ever was known, abandoned his property to the vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows him?”(

6. Essential Quote “Monseigneur, as a class, had dissociated himself from the phenomenon of his not being appreciated: of his being so little wanted in France, as to incur considerable danger of receiving his dismissal form it, and his life together.”