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Defarge closed the door carefully, and spoke in a subdued voice: \u201cJacques One, Jacques Two, Jacques Three! This is the witness encountered by appointment, by me, Jacques Four. He will tell you all. Speak, Jacques Five!\u201d The mender of roads, blue cap in hand, wiped his swarthy forehead with it, and said, \u201cWhere shall I commence, monsieur?\u201d \u201cCommence,\u201d was Monsieur Defarge's not unreasonable reply, \u201cat the commencement.\u201d \u201cI saw him then, messieurs,\u201d began the mender of roads, \u201ca year ago this running summer, underneath the carriage of the Marquis, hanging by the chain. Behold the manner of it. I leaving my work on the road, the sun going to bed, the carriage of the Marquis slowly ascending the hill, he hanging by the chain\u2014like this.\u201d Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing that it had been the infallible resource and indispensable entertainment of his village during a whole year. Jacques One struck in, and asked if he had ever seen the man before? \u201cNever,\u201d answered the mender of roads, recovering his perpendicular. (An excerpt from \u2018A Tale of Two Cities (1859), by Charles Dickens). Listen in...