Book 2, Chapter 21 (Echoing Footsteps)
'A remarkable crowd... seven prisoners released, seven gory heads on pikes' - the storming and Defarge's search of Manette's old cell.
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From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Dickens stages the fall of the Bastille as a sea of humanity, with the Defarges leading the assault and searching cell One Hundred and Five North Tower.
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