The Three Ages of Woman

The Three Ages of Woman
The Three Ages of Woman
¡¡¡¡He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless to speak to him, since, on being pressed, he became worried. He abandoned that attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to keep himself always before him, as a silent protest against the delusion into which he had fallen, or was falling. He remained, therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and expressing in as many pleasant and natural ways as he could think of, that it was a free place. ¡¡¡¡Doctor Manette took what was given him to eat and drink, and worked on, that first day, until it was too dark to see- worked on, half an hour after Mr. Lorry could not have seen, for his life, to read or write. When he put his tools aside as useless, until morning, Mr. Lorry rose and said to him: ¡¡¡¡"Will you go out?" ¡¡¡¡He looked down at the floor on either side of him in the old manner, looked up in the old manner, and repeated in the old low voice: ¡¡¡¡"Out?" ¡¡¡¡"Yes; for a walk with me. Why not?"