evidence: - Sydney Carton: A quick-minded and highly intelligent but depressed English barrister, referred to by Dickens as "The Jackal" because of his deference to Stryver. When introduced, he is a hard-drinking cynic, having watched Stryver advance while never taking advantage of his own considerable gifts: Dickens writes that the sun rose "upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible to the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away." In love with Lucie Manette, she cares about him but more as a concerned mother figure than a potential mate. He ultimately becomes a selfless hero, redeeming everything by sacrificing his life for a worthy cause. [...] - ^ Dickens 2003, p. 128 (Book 2, Chapter 9). This statement [citation needed] (about the roof) is truer than the Marquis knows, and another example of foreshadowing: the Evrémonde château is burned down by revolting peasants in Book 2, Chapter 23. [...] - ^ Dickens, Charles (1866), A Tale of Two Cities (First ed.), London: Chapman and Hall, p. iii, retrieved 6 July 2019 - ^ Charles Dickens, Letters, "Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 30 October 1859.