A Tale of Two Cities, Book 3: The Track of a Storm, Chapter 10 summary
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In Chapter 10, Alexandre Manette’s prison account reveals how two noble brothers destroy a peasant family and imprison him after he reports their crimes. Read before the tribunal, his denunciation of their descendants turns his testimony against his own daughter’s husband, whom the jury unanimously condemns to death within twenty-four hours.
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- Writing in the Bastille, Manette recalls two armed noblemen taking him to treat a distressed woman and her dying brother.
- The boy describes the brothers’ oppression, his sister’s abduction, and his fatal sword fight before accusing their entire family.
- The woman dies, and Manette refuses payment before writing a confidential report to the Minister.
- The Marquis’s wife seeks help for the surviving sister and hopes her young son Charles can make amends.
- The brothers intercept Manette’s report and arrange his imprisonment; his prison record condemns them and their descendants.
- The document inflames the tribunal, and the jury unanimously sentences Manette’s daughter’s husband to death within twenty-four hours.
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