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My dear Miss Hickman,

  "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel about self-sacrifice.  Sydney Carton
sacrifices his life to preserve the happiness of Lucie Manette.  Miss Pross
sacrifices her hearing to preserve Lucie's life.  An amusing writer of a
generation younger than my own has a bad novelist declare, "The good end
happily.  The bad end unhappily.  That is what fiction means."  It was not
my intention simply to punish bad characters and reward good ones.  I wanted
to explore the depths of the human soul, and to show that goodness is
sometimes bought at a cost.

Faithfully yours,


Charles Dickens
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> I am studying ATale of Two Cities and Ihave a question for you about the
book. Why did Mrs. Pross lose her hearing when she shot Madame Defarge? Why
couldn't she have been okay?
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