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 | | Charles Darnay, a French emigre, is acquitted of a treason charge because the likeness between himself and the dissolute attorney, Sydney Carton, discredits testimony that he has been seen passing information to the French, with whom the English are currently at war. |
 | | Charles is unexpectedly saved by the second intervention of Carton, who, out of unrequited love for Lucie, is prepared to sacrifice his life for the man she loves. |
 | | In classical myth the gorgons were creatures so repulsive that the very sight of one would turn the beholder to stone--indeed, the hero Perseus uses the head of the gorgon Medusa, whom he has slain by looking into his polished shield rather than directly at her, to turn the Titan Atlas into a mountain (Gibraltar). |
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