In chapter 16 the author repeatedly uses the phrase "knitting, knitting" which i am assuming means something but i am not sure what quite yet.
In chapter 17, the book talks about how Dr. Manette's daughter may not recall anything of him which makes him feel like there is no point in living any longer. While in jail, Manette often worry about how Lucie would turn out and what kind of person she would end up being so he would walk back and forth in the cell. The night before the wedding, Lucie goes down to her father's bedroom and checks in on him; when she finds him sleeping, she realizes that he is now content with the marriage.
Chapter 19 is about the destruction of the shoe making equipment, which i believe is truly about more than just a shoe making business: I think Dickens is trying to foreshadow something. Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry are the one's trying to make Manette quit the business, and they feel like accomplices to a horrible crime, even though they are trying to help the Doctor.
I think the title of Chapter 21 refers to Lucie hearing the footsteps that echo around the Manette household in Soho. She worried earlier in the book that the footsteps were the echoes of people coming into the family's life, and now the outside world is getting ready to screw up her little happy family. The echoes have not yet overtaken the family yet, because Lucie can still hear her childs footsteps closer.
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I agree with you about how the destruction of the shoemaking business is more that just that. What they are really trying to do is get rid of it so they are certain there are no relapses from Dr. Manette. It's not so much that he's kept on with his business but it's that they don't want him to relapse into his ways like he did in jail.
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