Describe the three "courtships" of Lucie as protrayed in Book the Second, Chapters 10-16 in A Tale of Two Cities.

With the proposals of marriage for Miss Lucie Manette,
Charles Dickens sketches three differing kinds of love in a humorous sketch of C.J.
Stryver's selfish desire as one who "shoulders his way" through life, expecting to
shoulder his way selfishly into Lucie Manette's life, a poignant portrayal of Sydney
Carton's idealized love, and the portrait of truly human love
in Charles Darnay.

In an ironically entitled chapter, "The
Fellow of Delicacy," Dickens portrays a man who is obtuse, interpreting reality to suit
his plans.  When Mr. Lorry essays to discreetly suggest that he not propose to Lucie
Manette, Stryver sucks the end of a ruler, then strikes "a tune of his teenth with it"
and says to Mr. Lorry,

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"You deliberately advise me not to go up to Shoho
and offer myself--myself, Stryver of the King's Bench
bar?"

When Mr. Lorry tells
him he has repeated his advice correctly, Stryver laughs.  After some thought, Stryver
acts as though he is "not so hot upon it" anymore and has decided not to ask Lucie
himself.  He

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burst out of the Bank, causing such a concussion
of air on his passage through, that to stand up against it bowing behind the two
counters, required the utmost remaining strength of the two ancient
clerks.

The fellow of true
delicacy, of course, is Sydney Carton who in the equally ironically name chapter "'The
Fellow of No Delicacy," wanders the streets of Soho
until

From
being irresolute and purposeless his feet became animated by an
intention

and he calls upon
Lucie Manette, telling her he "breaks down before the knowledge of what I want to say to
you."  He tells her she is the "last dream of my
soul:

I have
had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality,
and fighting out the abandoned fight.  A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and
leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired
it.

Unlike Stryver, Carton
unselfishly asks Lucie only to let him

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carry through the rest of my misdirected life,
the remembrance that I opened my heart to you, last of all the world; and there was
something left in me at this time which you could deplore and
pity.

Finally, with Charles
Darnay, Sydney Carton's alter-ego, Lucie finds true love.  Showing great respect for the
paternal love of Dr. Manette for his daughter and her devotion to him, Darnay tells the
physician that he wishes to honor their love and not come between them, but he loves
Lucie:  "Heaven is my witness that I love her."  He promises devotion to Manette as well
as Lucie.  His reverence for the love of daughter and father, as well as his devotion of
Lucie, demonstration the  humanness and unselfishness of Darnay's
love.

Thus, in the three proposals to Lucie Manette, three
types of love are presented: selfish and self-centered love in the person of the pompous
C. J. Stryver, the idealization of love in the character of one who seeks redemption,
Sydney Carton, and genuine, earthly, and human love in Charles
Darnay.