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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Part 2/2 · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: But a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind.
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  Speaker 1: In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a
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  Speaker 1: secret attraction to the disease, a terrible passing inclination to
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  Speaker 1: die of it. And all of us have like wonders
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  Speaker 1: hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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  Speaker 1: The passage to the Conciergerie was short and dark. The
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  Speaker 1: night in its vermin haunted cells was long and cold.
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  Speaker 1: Next day, fifteen prisoners were put to the bar before
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  Speaker 1: Charles Darnay's name was called. All the fifteen were condemned,
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  Speaker 1: and the trials of the whole occupied an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, was at length or reigned.
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  Speaker 1: His judges sat upon the bench in feathered hats, but
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  Speaker 1: the rough red cap and tricolored cockade was the head
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  Speaker 1: dress otherwise prevailing. Looking at the jury and the turbulent audience,
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  Speaker 1: he might have thought that the usual order of things
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  Speaker 1: was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
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  Speaker 1: The lowest, crew, ullst and worst populace of a city
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  Speaker 1: never without its quantity of low, cruel and bad were
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  Speaker 1: the directing spirits of the scene, noisily commenting, applauding, disapproving, anticipating,
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  Speaker 1: and precipitating the result without a check of the men,
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  Speaker 1: the greater part were armed in various ways. Of the women,
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  Speaker 1: some wore knives, some daggers, some ate and drank as
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  Speaker 1: they looked on. Many knitted. Among these last was one
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  Speaker 1: with a spare piece of knitting under her arm as
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  Speaker 1: she worked. She was in a front row by the
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  Speaker 1: side of a man whom he had never seen since
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  Speaker 1: his arrival at the barrier, but whom he directly remembered
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  Speaker 1: as Defarge. He noticed that she once or twice whispered
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  Speaker 1: in his ear, and that she seemed to be his wife.
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  Speaker 1: But what he most noticed in the two figures was that,
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  Speaker 1: although they were posted as close to himself as they
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  Speaker 1: could be, they never looked towards him. They seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be waiting for something with a dogged determination, and they
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  Speaker 1: looked at the jury but at nothing else. Under the
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  Speaker 1: President sat Doctor Manette in his usual quiet dress. As
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  Speaker 1: well as the prisoner could see, he and mister Laurie
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  Speaker 1: were the only men there unconnected with the tribunal who
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  Speaker 1: wore their usual clothes and had not assumed the coarse
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  Speaker 1: garb of the carmonole. Charles Evremond, called Darnay, was accused
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  Speaker 1: by the public prosecutor as an emigrant whose life was
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  Speaker 1: forfeit to the Republic under the decree which banished all
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  Speaker 1: emigrants on pain of death. It was nothing that the
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  Speaker 1: decree bore date since his return to France. There he was,
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  Speaker 1: and there was the decree. He had been taken in France,
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  Speaker 1: and his head was demanded. Take off his head, cried
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  Speaker 1: the audience, an enemy to the Republic. The President rang
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  Speaker 1: his bell to silence those cries and asked the prisoner
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  Speaker 1: whether it was not true that he had lived many
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  Speaker 1: years in England. Undoubtedly it was. Was he not an emigrant? Then?
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  Speaker 1: What did he call himself? Not an emigrant? He hoped,
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  Speaker 1: within the sense and spirit of the law. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: The President desired to know, because he had voluntarily relinquished
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  Speaker 1: a title that was distasteful to him and a station
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  Speaker 1: that was distasteful to him, and had left his country.
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  Speaker 1: He submitted before the word emigrant in the present acceptation
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  Speaker 1: by the tribunal was in use to live by his
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  Speaker 1: own industry in England rather than on the industry of
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  Speaker 1: the overladen people of France. What proof had he of this?
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  Speaker 1: He handed in the names of two witnesses, the Eppil
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  Speaker 1: Gabelle and Alexander Manette. But he had married in England,
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  Speaker 1: the President reminded him, true, but not an english woman,
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  Speaker 1: a sitizedness of France. Yes, by birth, her name and
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  Speaker 1: family Lucie Manette, only daughter of doctor Manette, the good
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  Speaker 1: physician who sits there. This answer had a happy effect
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  Speaker 1: upon the audience, cries in exaltation of the well known
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  Speaker 1: good physician rent the hull. So capriciously were the people
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  Speaker 1: moved that tears immediately rolled down several ferocious countenances, which
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  Speaker 1: had been glaring at the prisoner a moment before, as
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  Speaker 1: if with impatience to pluck him out into the streets
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  Speaker 1: and kill him. On these few steps of his dangerous way,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Darnay had set his foot according to doctor Manette's
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  Speaker 1: reiterated instructions. The same cautious council directed every step that
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  Speaker 1: lay before him, and had prepared every inch of his road.
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  Speaker 1: The President asked why had he returned to France when
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  Speaker 1: he did, and not sooner? He had not returned sooner
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  Speaker 1: he replied, simply because he had no means of living
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  Speaker 1: in France save those he had resigned, whereas in England
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  Speaker 1: he lived by giving instruction in the French language and literature.
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  Speaker 1: He had returned when he did on the pressing and
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  Speaker 1: written entreaty of a French citizen who represented that his
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  Speaker 1: life was endangered by his absence. He had come back
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  Speaker 1: to save a citizen's life and to bear his testimony
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  Speaker 1: at whatever personal hazard to the truth was that criminal
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the republic. The populace cried enthusiastically no,
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  Speaker 1: and the President rang his bell to quiet them, which
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  Speaker 1: it did not, for they continued to cry no until
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  Speaker 1: they left off of their own will. The President required
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  Speaker 1: the name of that citizen. The accused explained that the
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  Speaker 1: citizen was his first witness. He also referred with confidence
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  Speaker 1: to the citizen's letter, which had been taken from him
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  Speaker 1: at the barrier, but which he did not doubt would
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  Speaker 1: be found among the papers then before the President. The
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  Speaker 1: doctor had taken care that it should be there, had
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  Speaker 1: assured him that it would be there, and at this
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  Speaker 1: stage of the proceedings it was produced and read. Citizen
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  Speaker 1: Gabelle was called to confirm it and did so. Citizen
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  Speaker 1: Gabelle hinted with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the
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  Speaker 1: pressure of business imposed on the Tribunal by the multitude
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  Speaker 1: of enemies of the Republic with which it had to deal,
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  Speaker 1: he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the obey.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic
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  Speaker 1: remembrance until three days ago, when he had been summoned
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  Speaker 1: before it and had been set at liberty on the juries.
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  Speaker 1: Declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was answered
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  Speaker 1: as to himself by the surrender of the citizen Evremonde
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  Speaker 1: called Darnay, Doctor Manette was next questioned. His high personal
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  Speaker 1: popularity and the clearness of his answers made a great impression.
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  Speaker 1: But as he proceeded, as he showed that the accused
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  Speaker 1: was his first friend on his release from his long imprisonment,
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  Speaker 1: that the accused had remained in England, always faithful and
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  Speaker 1: devoted to his daughter and himself in their exile, that
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  Speaker 1: so far from being in favor with the aristocratic government there,
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  Speaker 1: he had actually been tried for his life by it,
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  Speaker 1: as the foe of England, and friend of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: As he brought these circumstances into view with the greatreatest
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  Speaker 1: discretion and with the straightforward force of truth and earnestness.
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  Speaker 1: The jury and the populace became one at last when
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  Speaker 1: he appealed by name to Monsieur Lorry, an English gentleman
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  Speaker 1: then in their present, who like himself, had been a
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  Speaker 1: witness on that English trial, and could corroborate his account
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  Speaker 1: of it. The jury declared that they had heard enough,
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  Speaker 1: and that they were ready with their votes if the
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  Speaker 1: President were content to receive them. At every vote, the
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  Speaker 1: jurymen voted aloud and individually. The populace set up a
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  Speaker 1: shout of applause. All the voices were in the prisoner's favor,
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  Speaker 1: and the President declared him free. Then began one of
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  Speaker 1: those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness,
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  Speaker 1: or their better impulses towards generosity in mercy, or which
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  Speaker 1: they regarded as some set off against their swollen account
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  Speaker 1: of cruel rage. No man can decide now to which
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  Speaker 1: of these motives such extraordinary scenes were referable. It is
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  Speaker 1: probable to a blending of all the three with the
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  Speaker 1: second dominating. No sooner was the acquittal pronounced than tears
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  Speaker 1: were shed as freely as blood at another time, and
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  Speaker 1: such fraternal embraces were bestowed upon the prisoner by as
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  Speaker 1: many of both sexes as could rush at him, that
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  Speaker 1: after his long and unwholesome confinement, he was in danger
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  Speaker 1: of fainting from exhaustion, none the less because he knew
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  Speaker 1: very well that the very same people, carried by another current,
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  Speaker 1: would have rushed at him with the very same intensity
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  Speaker 1: to rend him to pieces and strew him over the streets.
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  Speaker 1: His removal to make way for other accused persons who
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  Speaker 1: were to be tried, rescued him from these caresses for
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  Speaker 1: the moment. Five were to be tried together next as
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  Speaker 1: enemies of the republic, forasmuch as they had not assisted
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  Speaker 1: it by word or deed, so quick was the tribunal
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  Speaker 1: to compensate itself and the nation for a chance lost,
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  Speaker 1: that these five came down to him before he left
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  Speaker 1: the place. Condemned to die within twenty four hours, the
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  Speaker 1: first of them told him so, with the customary prison
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  Speaker 1: sign of death a raised finger, and they all added
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  Speaker 1: in words, long live the republic. The five had had.
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  Speaker 1: It is true no audience to lengthen their proceedings, for
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  Speaker 1: when he and doctor Manette emerged from the gate, there
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  Speaker 1: was a great crowd about it, in which there seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be every face he had seen in court, except two,
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  Speaker 1: for which he looked in vain. On his coming out,
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  Speaker 1: the concourse made at him anew weeping, embracing, and shouting,
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  Speaker 1: all by turns, and all together until the very tide
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  Speaker 1: of the river on the bank of which the mad
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  Speaker 1: scene was acted, seemed to run mad like the people
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  Speaker 1: on the shore. They put him into a great chair
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  Speaker 1: they had among them, and which they had taken either
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  Speaker 1: out of the court itself or one of its rooms
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  Speaker 1: or passages. Over the chair they had thrown a red flag,
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  Speaker 1: and to the back of it they had bound a
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  Speaker 1: pike with a red cap on its top. In this
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  Speaker 1: car of triumph, not even the doctor's entreaties could prevent
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  Speaker 1: his being carried to his home on men's shoulders, with
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  Speaker 1: a confused of red caps heaving about him, and casting
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  Speaker 1: up to sight from the stormy deep, such wrecks of
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  Speaker 1: faces that he more than once misdoubted his mind being
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  Speaker 1: in confusion, and that he was in the tumbrel on
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  Speaker 1: his way to the guillotine in wild dreamlike procession, embracing
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  Speaker 1: whom they met, and pointing him out. They carried him on,
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  Speaker 1: reddening the snowy streets with the prevailing Republican color, in
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  Speaker 1: winding and tramping through them, as they had reddened them
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  Speaker 1: below the snow with a deeper dye. They carried him
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  Speaker 1: thus into the courtyard of the building where he lived.
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  Speaker 1: Her father had gone on before to prepare her, and
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  Speaker 1: when her husband stood upon his feet, she dropped, insensible
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  Speaker 1: in his arms. As he held her to his heart,
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  Speaker 1: and turned her beautiful head between his face and the
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  Speaker 1: brawling crowd, so that his tears and her lips might
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  Speaker 1: come together unseen. A few of the people fell to
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  Speaker 1: dancing instantly. All the rest fell to dancing, and the
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  Speaker 1: courtyard overflowed with the carmenole. Then they elevated into the
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  Speaker 1: vacant chair a young woman from the crowd, to be
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  Speaker 1: carried as the goddess of liberty, and then, swelling and
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  Speaker 1: overflowing out into the adjacent streets and along the river's
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  Speaker 1: bank and over the bridge, the carmignole absorbed them every one,
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  Speaker 1: and whirled them away. After grasping the doctor's hand as
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  Speaker 1: he stood victorious and proud before him, After grasping the
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  Speaker 1: hand of mister Laurie, who came panting in breathless from
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  Speaker 1: his struggle against the water spout of the Carmenule, after
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  Speaker 1: kissing little Lucy, who was lifted up to clasp her
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  Speaker 1: arms round his neck, and after embracing the ever zealous
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  Speaker 1: and faithful Pross who lifted her, he took his wife
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  Speaker 1: in his arms and carried her up to their rooms. Lucy,
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  Speaker 1: my own, I am safe, oh dearest Charles. Let me
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  Speaker 1: thank God for this on my knees, as I have
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  Speaker 1: prayed to him. They all reverently bowed their heads and hearts.
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  Speaker 1: When she was again in his arms, he said to her,
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  Speaker 1: and now speak to your father, dearest. No other man
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  Speaker 1: in all this friend could have done what he has
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  Speaker 1: done for me. She laid her head upon her father's breast,
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  Speaker 1: as she had laid his poor head on her own
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  Speaker 1: breast long long ago. He was happy in the return
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  Speaker 1: he had made her. He was recompensed for his suffering.
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  Speaker 1: He was proud of his strength. You must not be weak,
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  Speaker 1: my darling, he remonstrated, don't tremble, so I have saved him.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, A knock at the door. I have saved him.
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  Speaker 1: It was not another of the dreams in which he
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  Speaker 1: had often come back. He was really here, And yet
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  Speaker 1: his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was
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  Speaker 1: upon her. All the air round was so thick and dark,
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  Speaker 1: the people were so passionately revengeful and fitful, The innocent
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  Speaker 1: were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and
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  Speaker 1: black malice. It was so impossible to forget that many,
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  Speaker 1: as blameless as her husband, and as dear to others
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  Speaker 1: as he was to her, every day shared the fate
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  Speaker 1: from which he had been clutched, that her heart could
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  Speaker 1: not be as lightened of its load as she felt
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  Speaker 1: it ought to be. The shadows of the wintry afternoon
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  Speaker 1: were beginning to fall, and even now the dreadful carts
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  Speaker 1: were rolling through the streets. Her mind pursued them, looking
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  Speaker 1: for him among the condemned, and then she clung closer
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  Speaker 1: to his real presence and trembled more. Her father, cheering her,
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  Speaker 1: showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was
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  Speaker 1: wonderful to see. No garret, no shoemaking, No one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and five North Tower. Now he had accomplished the task
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  Speaker 1: he had set himself. His promise was redeemed. He had
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  Speaker 1: saved Charles let them all lean upon him. Their housekeeping
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  Speaker 1: was of a very frugal kind, not only because that
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  Speaker 1: was the safest way of life, involving the least offense
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  Speaker 1: to the people, but because they were not rich, and Charles,
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  Speaker 1: throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his
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  Speaker 1: bad food and for his guard, and towards the living
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  Speaker 1: of the poorer prisoners. Partly on this account, and partly
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  Speaker 1: to avoid a domestic spy, they kept no servant. The
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  Speaker 1: citizen incitizedness, who acted as porters at the courtyard gate
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  Speaker 1: rendered them occasional service, and Jerry, almost wholly transferred to
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  Speaker 1: them by mister Lorry, had become their daily retainer, and
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  Speaker 1: had his bed there every night. It was an ordinance
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  Speaker 1: of the Republic, one and indivisible of liberty, equality, fraternity,
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  Speaker 1: or death, that on the door or doorpost of every
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  Speaker 1: house the name of every inmate must be legibly inscribed
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  Speaker 1: in letters of a certain size, at a certain convenient
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  Speaker 1: height from the ground. Mister Jerry Cruncher's name therefore duly
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  Speaker 1: embellished the doorposts down below, and as the afternoon shadows deepened,
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  Speaker 1: the owner of that name himself appeared from overlooking a
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  Speaker 1: painter whom doctor Manette had employed to add to the
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  Speaker 1: list the name of Charles Evremond, called Darnay. In the
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  Speaker 1: universal fear and distrust that darkened the time, all the
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  Speaker 1: usual harmless ways of life were changed. In the doctor's
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  Speaker 1: little household, as in very many others, the articles of
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  Speaker 1: daily consumption that were wanted were purchased every evening, in
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  Speaker 1: small quantities and at various small shops. To avoid attracting notice,
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  Speaker 1: and to give as little occasion as possible for talk
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  Speaker 1: and envy was the general desire. For some months past,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Pross and mister Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors,
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  Speaker 1: the former carrying the money, the latter the basket. Every afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: at about the time when the public lamps were lighted,
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  Speaker 1: they fared forth on this duty and made and brought
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  Speaker 1: home such purchases as were needful. Although Miss Pross, through
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  Speaker 1: her long association with a French family, might have known
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  Speaker 1: as much of their language as of her own, if
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  Speaker 1: she had had a mind, she had no mind in
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  Speaker 1: that direction. Consequently, she knew no more of that nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: as she was pleased to call it, than mister Cruncher did. So.
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  Speaker 1: Her manner of marketing was to plump a noun substantive
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  Speaker 1: at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in
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  Speaker 1: the nature of an article, And if it happened not
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  Speaker 1: to be the name of the thing, she wanted to
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  Speaker 1: look round for that thing, lay hold of it, and
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  Speaker 1: hold on by it until the bargain was concluded. She
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  Speaker 1: always made a bargain for it by holding up as
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  Speaker 1: a statement of its just price, one finger less than
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  Speaker 1: the merchant held up, whatever his number might be. Now,
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  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher, said Miss Pross, whose eyes were red with felicity.
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  Speaker 1: If you are ready, I am Jerry, hoarsely professed himself
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  Speaker 1: at Miss Pross's service. He had worn all his rust
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  Speaker 1: off long ago, but nothing would file his spiky head down.
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  Speaker 1: There's all manner of things wanted, said Miss Pross, and
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  Speaker 1: we shall have a precious time of it. We want
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  Speaker 1: wine among the rest nice toasts. These redheads will be
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  Speaker 1: drinking wherever we buy it. It will be much the
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  Speaker 1: same to your knowledge, Miss I should think, retorted Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: whether they drink your health or the old yu ends
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  Speaker 1: who's he said Miss Pross. Mister Cruncher, with some diffidence,
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  Speaker 1: explained himself as meaning bold nicks Ha, said Miss Pross.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't need an interpreter to explain the meaning of
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  Speaker 1: these creatures. They have but one, and it's midnight murder
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  Speaker 1: and mischief. Hush, dear, pray, pray, be cautious, cried Lucy. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be cautious, said Miss Pross. But I may say
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  Speaker 1: among ourselves that I do hope there will be no
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  Speaker 1: oniony in tobaccoy smotherings in the form of embracings all
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  Speaker 1: round going on in the streets. Now, ladybird, never you
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  Speaker 1: stir from that fire till I come back. Take care
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  Speaker 1: of the dear husband you have recovered, and don't move
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  Speaker 1: your pretty head from his shoulder as you have it
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  Speaker 1: now till you see me again. May I ask a question,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Manette, before I go. I think you may take
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  Speaker 1: that liberty, the doctor answered, smiling. For gracious sake, don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about liberty. We have quite enough of that, said
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  Speaker 1: Miss Pross. Hush dear again, Lucy remonstrated, Well, my sweet
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  Speaker 1: said Miss Pross. Nodding her head emphatically. The short and
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  Speaker 1: the long of it is that I am a subject
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  Speaker 1: of His most gracious Majesty, King George the Third. Miss
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  Speaker 1: Pross curtseyed at the name, And as such my maxim
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  Speaker 1: is confound their politics frustrate their knavish tricks on him.
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  Speaker 1: Our hopes we fix God save the king. Mister Cruncher,
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  Speaker 1: in an access of loyalty, growlingly, repeated the words after
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  Speaker 1: Miss Pross, like somebody at church. I am glad you
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  Speaker 1: have so much of the Englishman in you, though I
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  Speaker 1: wish you had never taken that cold in your voice,
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  Speaker 1: said Miss Pross approvingly. But the question, doctor Manette, is there.
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  Speaker 1: It was the good creature's way to effect, to make
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  Speaker 1: light of anything that was a great anxiety with them all,
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  Speaker 1: and to come at it in this chance manner. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any prospect yet of our getting out of this place?
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  Speaker 1: I fear not yet it would be dangerous for Charles.
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  Speaker 1: Yet hey ho hum, said Miss Pross, cheerfully, repressing a
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  Speaker 1: sigh as she glanced at her darling's golden hair in
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  Speaker 1: the light of the fire. Then we must have patience
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  Speaker 1: and wait. That's all we must hold up our heads
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  Speaker 1: and fight low, as my brother Solomon used to say. Now,
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  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher, don't you move, ladybird. They went out, leaving
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  Speaker 1: Lucie and her husband, her father, and the child by
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  Speaker 1: a bright fire. Mister Lorry was expected back presently from
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  Speaker 1: the banking house. Miss Pross had lighted the lamp, but
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  Speaker 1: had put it aside in a corner that they might
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the firelight. Undisturbed, Little Lucie sat by her grandfather
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  Speaker 1: with her hands clasped through his arm, and he, in
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  Speaker 1: a tone not rising much above a whisper, began to
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  Speaker 1: tell her a story of a great and powerful fairy
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: who had opened a prison wall and let out a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: captive who had once done the fairy a service. All
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: was subdued and quiet, and lo, she was more at
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: ease than she had been. What is that? She cried?
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  Speaker 1: All at once, My dear, said her father, stopping in
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  Speaker 1: his story and laying his hand on hers. Command yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what a disordered state you are in the least thing
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  Speaker 1: nothing startles you? You your father's daughter, I thought, my father,
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  Speaker 1: said Lucy, excusing herself with a pale face and in
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  Speaker 1: a faltering voice that I heard strange feet upon the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: My love, the staircase is as still as death. As
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: he said the word, a blow was struck upon the door. Oh, father, father,
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  Speaker 1: what can this be? Hide Charles, save him, my child,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: said the doctor, rising and laying his hand upon her shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: I have saved him. What weakness is this, my dear?
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  Speaker 1: Let me go to the door. He took the lamp
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  Speaker 1: in his hand, crossed the two intervene outer rooms, and
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  Speaker 1: opened it. A rude clattering of feet over the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and four rough men in red caps armed with sabers
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  Speaker 1: and pistols, entered the room zero six four nine m original.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: The citizen Evremonde, called Darnay, said the first who seeks him,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: answered Darnay, I seek him, We seek him. I know you, Evremonde,
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  Speaker 1: I saw you before the tribunal. To day you are
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: again the prisoner of the republic. The four surrounded him
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: where he stood, with his wife and child clinging to him.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me how and why am I again a prisoner.
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  Speaker 1: It is enough that you returned straight to the Conciergerie
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  Speaker 1: and will know tomorrow you are summoned for tomorrow Doctor Manette,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: whom this visitation had so turned into stone that He
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: stood with the lamp in his hand as if he
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: were a statue made to hold it. Moved after these
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: words were spoken, put the lamp down, and, confronting the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: speaker and taking him not ungently by the loose front
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  Speaker 1: of his red woolen shirt, said you know him, you
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: have said, do you know me? Yes, I know you,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Citizen doctor. We all know you, Citizen doctor said the
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  Speaker 1: other three. He looked abstractedly from one to another, and said,
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  Speaker 1: in a lower voice, after a pause, will you answer
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  Speaker 1: his question to me? Then? How does this happen? Citizen
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: doctor said the first reluctantly. He has been denounced to
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the section of Saint Antoine. This citizen, pointing out the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: second who had entered, is from Saint Antoine. The citizen
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: here indicated, nodded his head and added, he is accused
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: by Saint Antoine of what, asked the doctor. Citizen Doctor
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: said the first, with his former reluctance, ask no more.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: If the Republic demand sacrifices from you, without doubt you,
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  Speaker 1: as a good patriot, will be happy to make them.
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  Speaker 1: The republic goes before all the people is supreme evremonde.
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  Speaker 1: We are pressed one word, The doctor entreated will you
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  Speaker 1: tell me who denounced him? It is against rule, answered
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  Speaker 1: the first, But you can ask him of Saint Antoine.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Here the doctor turned his eyes upon that man, who
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: moved uneasily on his feet, rubbed his beard a little,
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  Speaker 1: and at length said, well, truly it is against rule,
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  Speaker 1: but he is denounced and gravely by the citizen, and
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  Speaker 1: citizeness defarge, and by one other. What other do you ask,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: citizen doctor? Yes, then said he of Saint Antoine, with
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  Speaker 1: a strange look. You will be answered tomorrow. Now I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: am dumb Chapter eight, A hand at cards. Happily unconscious
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: way along the narrow streets and crossed the river by
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the bridge of the pont Neuf, reckoning in her mind
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  Speaker 1: the number of indispensable purchases she had had to make.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Cruncher with the basket, walked at her side. They
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  Speaker 1: both looked to the right and to the left into
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  Speaker 1: most of the shops they passed, had a wary eye
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  Speaker 1: for all gregarious assemblages of people, and turned out of
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  Speaker 1: their road to avoid any very excited group of talkers.
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  Speaker 1: It was a raw evening, and the misty river blurred
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  Speaker 1: to the eye with blazing lights and to the ear
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  Speaker 1: with harsh noises, showed where the barges were stationed in
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  Speaker 1: which the smiths worked making guns for the Army of
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the Republic. Woe to the man who played tricks with
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that army, or got undeserved promotion in it. Better for
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: him that his beard had never grown, for the National
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Razor shaved him close. Having purchased a few small articles
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: of grocery and a measure of oil for the lamp,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross bethought herself of the wine they wanted. After
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: peeping into several wine shops, she stopped at the sign
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, not far from
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the National Palace, once and twice the Tileries, where the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: aspect of things rather took her fancy. It had a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: quieter look than any other place of the same description
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  Speaker 1: they had passed, and though red with patriotic caps, was
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  Speaker 1: not so red as the rest Sounding mister Cruncher, and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Slightly
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  Speaker 1: observant of the smoky lights, of the people pipe in mouth,
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  Speaker 1: playing with limp cards and yellow dominoes. Of the one
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: bare breasted, bare armed, soup bigrimed workmen reading a journal aloud,
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  Speaker 1: and of the others listening to him, of the weapons
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  Speaker 1: worn or laid aside to be resumed. Of the two
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  Speaker 1: or three customers fallen forward asleep, who in the popular
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: high shouldered, shaggy black spencer looked in that attitude like
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  Speaker 1: slumbering bears or dogs. The two outlandish customers approached the
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  Speaker 1: counter and showed what they wanted. As their wine was
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: measuring out, a man parted from another man in a
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  Speaker 1: corner and rose to depart. In going he had to
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  Speaker 1: face miss Pross. No sooner did he face her than
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross uttered a scream and clapped her hands. In
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: a moment, the whole company were on their feet. That
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: somebody was assassinated by somebody, vindicating a difference of opinion
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: was the likeliest occurrence. Everybody looked to see somebody fall,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: but only saw a man and a woman standing staring
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  Speaker 1: at each other, the man with all the outward aspect
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  Speaker 1: of a Frenchman and a thorough Republican, the woman evidently English,
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  Speaker 1: zero six five three m original What was said in
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: this disappointing anti climax by the disciples of the Good
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: republican brutus of antiquity, except that it was something very
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  Speaker 1: voluble and loud, would have been as so much Hebrew
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: or Chaldean to Miss Pross and her protector, though they
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: had been all ears, but they had no ears for
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: anything in their surprise. For it must be recorded that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: not only was Miss Pross lost in amazement and agitation,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: but mister Cruncher, though it seemed on his own separate
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  Speaker 1: and individual account, was in a state of the greatest wonder.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: What is the matter? Said the man who had caused
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross to scream, speaking in a vexed, abrupt voice,
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  Speaker 1: though in a low tone and in English. Oh, Solomon,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: dear Solomon, cried Miss Pross, clapping her hands again. After
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  Speaker 1: not setting eyes upon you or hearing of you for
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  Speaker 1: so long a time, do I find you here? Don't
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  Speaker 1: call me Solomon? Do you want to be the death
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  Speaker 1: of me? Asked the man in a furtive, frightened way.
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  Speaker 1: Brother brother, cried Miss Pross, bursting into tears. Have I
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  Speaker 1: ever been so hard with you that you? Asked me
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  Speaker 1: such a cruel question. Then hold your meddlesome tongue, said Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: and come out if you want to speak to me.
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  Speaker 1: Pay for your wine and come out. Who's this man?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross, shaking her loving in dejected head at her
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: by no means of affectionate brother, said through her tears,
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  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher. Let him come out, too, said Solomon. Does
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  Speaker 1: he think me a ghost? Apparently mister Cruncher did, to
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  Speaker 1: judge from his looks, He said not a word, however,
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Pross, exploring the depths of her reticule through
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  Speaker 1: her tears with great difficulty, paid for her wine. As
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  Speaker 1: she did so. Solomon turned to the followers of the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Good Republican brutus of antiquity, and offered a few words
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  Speaker 1: of explanation in the French language, which caused them all
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  Speaker 1: to relapse into their former places and pursuits. Now, said Solomon,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: stopping at the dark street corner, what do you want?
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  Speaker 1: How dreadfully unkind in a brother, nothing has ever turned
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  Speaker 1: my love away from cried Miss Pross. To give me
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  Speaker 1: such a greeting and show me no affection there? Confound
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it there, said Solomon, making a dab at Miss Pross's
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  Speaker 1: lips with his own. Now are you content? Miss Pross
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  Speaker 1: only shook her head and wept in silence. If you
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  Speaker 1: expect me to be surprised, said her brother Solomon. I
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  Speaker 1: am not surprised. I knew you were here. I know
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  Speaker 1: of most people who are here. If you really don't
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  Speaker 1: want to endanger my existence, which I half believe you do,
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  Speaker 1: go your ways as soon as possible and let me
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  Speaker 1: go mine. I am busy. I am an official, my
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  Speaker 1: English brother, Solomon mourned Miss Pross, casting up her tear
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  Speaker 1: fraught eyes that had the makings in him of one
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  Speaker 1: of the best and greatest of men in his native country,
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  Speaker 1: an official among foreigners, and such foreigners, I would almost
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: sooner have seen the dear boy lying in his I said, so,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: cried her brother, interrupting, I knew it. You want to
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  Speaker 1: be the death of me. I shall be rendered suspected
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  Speaker 1: by my own sister, just as I am getting on
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  Speaker 1: the gracious and merciful heavens forbid, cried Miss Pross. Far Rather,
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  Speaker 1: would I never see you again, dear Solomon, though I
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: have ever loved you truly and ever shall say but
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  Speaker 1: one affectionate word to me and tell me there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain
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  Speaker 1: you no longer, good Miss Pross, as if the estrangement
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  Speaker 1: between them had come of any culpability of hers, as
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  Speaker 1: if mister Laurie had not known it for a fact
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  Speaker 1: years ago in the quiet corner, in soho that this
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: precious brother had spent her money and left her. He
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more
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  Speaker 1: grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: their relative merits and positions had been reversed, which is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: invariably the case all the world over. When mister Cruncher,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: touching him on the shoulder, hoarsely and unexpectedly, interposed with
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the following singular question, I say, might I ask the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: favor as to whether your name is John Solomon or
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Solomon John? The official turned towards him with sudden distrust.
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  Speaker 1: He had not previously uttered a word. Come, said, mister Cruncher,
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  Speaker 1: speak out, you know, which, by the way, was more
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  Speaker 1: than he could do himself. John Solomon or Solomon? John.
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  Speaker 1: She calls you Solomon, and she must know, being your sister,
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  Speaker 1: and I know your John. You know which of the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: two goes first? And regarding that name of Pross, likewise,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that warn't your name over the water? What do you mean? Well,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know all I mean, for I can't call
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: to mind what your name was over the water. No, no,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: but I'll swear it was a name of two syllables. Indeed, yes,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: t'other one's was one syllable. I know you you was
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a spy witness at the bailey. What in the name
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: of the father of lies own father to yourself was
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you called at that time? Bar sad? Said another voice,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: striking in, that's the name for a thousand pound, cried Jerry.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: The speaker who struck in was Sydney Carton. He had
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  Speaker 1: his hands behind him under the skirts of his riding coat,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and he stood at mister Cruncher's elbow as negligently as
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: he might have stood at the old bailey itself. Don't
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: be alarmed, my dear miss Pross. I arrived at mister
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Lorry's to his surprise yesterday evening. We agreed that I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: would not present myself elsewhere until all was well, or
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: unless I could be useful. I present myself here to
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: beg a little talk with your brother. I wish you
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: had a better employed brother than mister Barsad. I wish
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  Speaker 1: for your sake. Mister Barsad was not a sheep of
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the prisons. Sheep was a cant word of the time
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: for a spy under the jailers. The spy, who was pale,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: turned paler and asked him how he dared. I'll tell you,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: said Sydney. I lighted on you, mister Barsad, coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the prison of the Conciergerie, while I was contemplating
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  Speaker 1: the walls an hour or more ago. You have a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: face to be remembered, and I remember faces well. Made
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  Speaker 1: curious by seeing you in that connection, and having a
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: reason to which you are no stranger, for associating you
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: with the misfortunes of a friend now very unfortunate, I
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: walked in your direction. I walked into the wine shop
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: here close after you, and sat near you. I had
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: no difficulty in deducing from your unreserved conversation and the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: rumor openly going about among your admirers the nature of
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: your calling, and gradually what I had done at random
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: seemed to shape itself into a purpose. Mister Barsad, what purpose?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: The spy asked it would be troublesome and might be
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: dangerous to explain in the street. Could you favor me
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: in confidence with some minutes of your company at the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: office of Tellson's Bank, for instance? Under a threat? Oh
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: did I say that? Then? Why should I go there? Really,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad, I can't say. If you can't, do you
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: mean that? You won't say, sir? The spy resolutely asked
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you apprehend me very clearly, mister Barsad, I won't. Carton's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: negligent recklessness of manner came powerfully in aid of his
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: quickness and skill in such a business as he had
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in his secret mind, and with such a man as
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: he had to do with his practiced I saw it
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and made the most of it. Now I told you so,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: said the spy, casting a reproachful look at his sister.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: If any trouble comes of this, it's your doing. Come come,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad, exclaimed Sidney, don't be ungrateful. But for my
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: great respect for your sister, I might not have led
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: up so pleasantly to a little proposal that I wished
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to make for our mutual satisfaction. Do you go with
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: me to the bank. I'll hear what you have got
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to say yes, I'll go with you. I propose that
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: we first conduct your sister safely to the corner of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: her own street. Let me take your arm, Miss Pross.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a good city at this time for
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you to be out in unprotected, And as your escort knows,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad, I will invite him to mister Lorry's with us.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Are we ready come then? Miss Pross recalled soon afterwards,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and to the end of her life, remembered that as
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: she pressed her hands on Sidney's arm and looked up
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: in his face, imploring him to do no hurt to Solomon,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: there was a braced purpose in the arm and a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: kind of inspiration in the eyes which not only contradicted
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: his light manner, but changed and raised the man. She
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: was too much occupied then with fears for the brother
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: who so little deserved her affection, and with Sydney's friendly
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: reassurances adequately to heed what she observed. They left her
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: at the corner of the street, and Carton led the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: way to mister Lorry's, which was within a few minutes
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: walk John Barsad or Solomon Pross walked at his side.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Mister Laurie had just finished his dinner and was sitting
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: before a cheery little log or two of fire, perhaps
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: looking into their blaze for the picture of that younger
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: elderly gentleman from Tellson's who had looked into the red
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: coals at the Royal George at Dover now a good
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: many years ago. He turned his head as they entered
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and showed the surprise with which he saw a stranger.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross's brother, Sir, said Sidney. Mister Barsad. Barsad repeated
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the old gentleman Barsad, I have an association with the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: name and with the face I told you you had
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: a remarkable face. Mister Barsad observed Carton coolly Pray sit
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: down as he took a chair himself. He supplied the
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: link that mister Lorry wanted by saying to him with
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: a frown witness at that trial. Mister Lorry immediately remembered
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and regarded his new visitor with an un disguised look
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of abhorns. Mister Barsad has been recognized by miss Pross
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: as the affectionate brother you have heard of, said Sydney,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and has acknowledged the relationship I passed to worse News
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Darnay has been arrested again. Struck with consternation, the old
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: gentleman exclaimed, what do you tell me? I left him
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: safe and free within these two hours, and am about
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: to return to him arrested for all that. When was
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: it done, mister Barsad? Just now, if at all, mister
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Barsad is the best authority possible, Sir, said Sydney. And
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I have it from mister Barsad's communication to a friend
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and brother sheep over a bottle of wine, that the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: arrest has taken place. He left the messengers at the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: gate and saw them admitted by the porter. There is
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: no earthly doubt that he has retaken mister Lorry's business.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I read in a speaker's face that it was loss
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: of time to dwell upon the point. Confused but sensible
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that something might depend on his presence of mind, he
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: commanded himself and was silently attentive. Now I trust, said
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Sydney to him, that the name and influence of doctor
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Manette may stand him in as good stead tomorrow. You
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: said he would be before the tribunal again tomorrow. Mister
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Barr said, yes, I believe so, in as good stead
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: tomorrow as to day. But it may not be so
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I own to you. I am shaken, mister Lorry, by
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: doctor Manette's not having had the power to prevent this arrest.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: He may not have known of it beforehand, said mister Lorry,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: But that very circumstance would be alarming when we remember
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: how identified he is with his son in law. That's true,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: mister Lorry acknowledged, with his troubled hand at his chin
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and his troubled eyes on Carton in short, said Sydney.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: This is a desperate time when desperate games are played
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: for desperate stakes. Let the doctor play the winning game.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I will play the losing one. No man's life here
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: is worth purchase. Any One carried home by the people
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to day may be condemned tomorrow. Now. The stake I
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: have resolved to play for in case of the worst
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: is a friend in the conciergerie, And the friend I
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: purpose to myself to win is mister bar Sad. You
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: need have good cards, sir, said the spy. I'll run
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: them over. I'll see what I hold. Mister Laurie, you
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: know what a brute I am. I wish you'd give
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: me a little brandy. It was put before him, and
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: he drank off a glassful, drank off another glassful, pushed
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the bottle thoughtfully away. Mister bar Sad, he went on,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: in the tone of one who really was looking over
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: a hand at cards. Sheep of the prisons, emissary of
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Republican committees, now turnkey, now prisoner, always spy and secret informer.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So much the more valuable here for being English. That
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: an English is less open to suspicion of subornation in
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: those characters than a Frenchman represents himself to his employers
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: under a false name. That's a very good card. Mister Barsad,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: now in the employ of the republican French government, was
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: formerly in the employ of the aristocratic English government, the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: enemy of France and freedom. That's an excellent card inference,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: clear as day in this region of suspicion, that mister Barsad,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: still in the pay of the aristocratic English government, is
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the spy of pitt, the treacherous foe of the Republic,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: crouching in its bosom, the English trader and agent of
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: all mischief, so much spoken of and so difficult to find.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: That's a card not to be beaten. Have you followed
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: my hand, mister Barsad, not to understand your play, returned
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: the spy somewhat uneasily. I play my ace denunciation of
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad to the nearest section committee. Look over your hand,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad, and see what you have. Don't hurry. He
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: drew the bottle near, poured out another glassful of brandy,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: and drank it off. He saw that the spy was
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: fearful of his drinking himself into a fit state for
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the immediate denunciation of him seeing it, he poured out
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and drank another glassful. Look over your hand carefully, mister Barsad,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: take time. It was a poorer hand than he suspected.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Mister Barsad saw losing cards in it. That Sydney Carton
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: knew nothing of thrown out of his honorable employment in England,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: threw too much unsuccessful hard swearing there, not because he
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: was not wanted there. Our English reasons for vaunting our
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: superiority to secrecy and spies are a very modern date.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: He knew that he had crossed the channel and accepted
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: service in France, first as a tempter and an eavesdropper
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: among his own countrymen, there gradually as a tempter and
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: an eavesdropper among the natives. He knew that under the
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: old overthrown government he had been a spy upon Saint
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Antoine Defarge's wine shop, had received from the watchful police
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: such heads of information concerning doctor Manette's imprisonment, release and
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: history as should serve him for an introduction to familiar
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: conversation with the Defarges, and tried them on Madame Defarge,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and had broken down with them signally. He always remembered,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: with fear and trembling that that terrible woman had knitted
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: when he talked with her, and had looked ominously at
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: him as her fingers moved. He had since seen her
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: in the section of Saint Antoine, over and over again,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: produce her knitted registers and denounce people whose lives the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: guillotine then surely swallowed up. He knew, as every one
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: employed as he was, did, that he was never safe,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: that flight was impossible, that he was tied fast under
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the shadow of the axe, and that, in spite of
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: his utmost co giversation and treachery in furtherance of the
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: reigning terror, a word might bring it down upon him.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Once denounced, and on such grave as had just now
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: been suggested to his mind. He foresaw that the dreadful woman,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: of whose unrelenting character he had seen many proofs, would
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: produce against him that fatal register and would quash his
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: last chance of life. Besides that all secret men are
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: men soon terrified. Here were surely cards enough of one
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: black suit to justify the holder in, growing rather livid
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: as he turned them over. You scarcely seem to like
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: your hand, said Sydney, with the greatest composure. Do you play?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I think, sir, said the spy in the meanest manner,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: as he turned to mister Laurie. I may appeal to
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: a gentleman of your years in benevolence to put it
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: to this other gentleman so much, your junior, whether he can,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: under any circumstances, reconcile it to his station to play
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the ace of which he has spoken. I admit that
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I am a spy, and that it is considered a
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: discreditable station, though it must be filled by somebody. But
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: this gentleman is no spy, and why should he so
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: demean himself as to make himself one. I play my ace,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad, said Carton, taking the answer on himself, and
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: looking at his watch without any scruple, in a very
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: few minutes. I should have hoped, gentlemen, both, said the spy,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: always striving to hook mister Lorry into the discussion that
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: your respect for my sister. I could not better testify
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: my respect for your sister than by finally relieving her
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: of her brother, said Sydney Carton. You think not, sir,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I have thoroughly made up my mind about it. The
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: smooth manner of the spy, curiously in dissonance with his
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: ostentatiously rough dress and probably with his usual demeanor, received
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: such a check from the inscrutability of Carton, who was
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: a mystery to wiser and honester men than he that
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: had faltered here and failed him While he was at
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: a loss, Carton said, resuming his former air of contemplating cards.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And indeed, now I think again, I have a strong
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: impression that I have another good card here. Not yet
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: enumerated that friend and fellow sheep who spoke of himself
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: as pasturing in the country prisons. Who was he? French?
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: You don't know him, said the spy quickly. French, eh,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: repeated Carton, musing and not appearing to notice him at all,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: though he echoed his word. Well, he may be, is
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I assure you, said the spy. Though it's not important.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Though it's not important, repeated Carton, in the same mechanical way.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Though it's not important. No, it's not important. No yet
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I know the face. I think not. I am sure not.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: It can't be, said the spy. It can't be, muttered
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Sydney Carton, retrospectively, and idling his glass, which fortunately was
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: a small one. Again, can't be spoke good French, yet
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: like a foreigner, I thought provincial, said the spy. Mil
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: the foreign, cried Carton, striking his open hand on the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: table as a light broke clearly on his mind. Clie disguised,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: but the same man. We had that man before us
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: at the old Bailey. Now there you are, hasty, sir,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: said Barsad, with a smile that gave his aquiline nose
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: an extra inclination to one side. There you really give
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: me an advantage over you. Clie, who I will unreservedly
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: admit at this distance of time, was a partner of mine.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Has been dead several years. I attended him in his
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: last illness. He was buried in London at the Church
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: of Saint Pancras in the fields his unpopularity with the
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: blaggared multitude at the moment prevented my following his remains,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: but I helped to lay him in his coffin. Here,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: mister Lorry became aware from where he sat of a
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: most remarkable goblin shadow on the wall. Tracing it to
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: its source, he discovered it to be caused by a sudden,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: extraordinary rising and stiffening of all the risen and stiff
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: hair on mister Cruncher's head. Let us be reasonable, said
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the spy, and let us be fair to show you
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: how mistaken you are, and what an unfounded assumption yours is.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I will lay before you a certificate of Claie's burial,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: which I happened to have carried in my pocket book.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: With a hurried hand, he produced and opened it. Ever
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: since there it is, Oh, look at it. Look at it.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: You may take it in your hand. It's no forgery.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Here mister Laurie perceived the reflection on the wall to elongate,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: and mister Cruncher rose and stepped forward. His hair could
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: not have been more violently on end if it had
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: been that moment dressed by the cow with the crumpled
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: horn in the house that Jack built. Unseen by the spy,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher stood at his side and touched him on
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the shoulder like a ghostly bailiff. That there, Roger Clyye master,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: said mister Cruncher, with a tacit an iron bound visage.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: So you put him in his coffin? I did? Who
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: took him out of it? Barsad leaned back in his
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: chair and stammered, what do you mean? I mean, said
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher, that he warn't never in it? No, not
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: he I'll have my head took off if he was
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: ever in it. The spy looked round at the two gentlemen.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: They both looked in unspeakable astonishment at Jerry. I tell you,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: said Jerry, that you buried paving stones and earth in
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: at their coffin. Don't go and tell me that you
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: buried cly It was a take in me and two
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: more knows it. How do you know it? What's that
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to you? Echoed growled mister Cruncher. It's you. I have
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: got a old grudge again, is it? With your shameful
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: impositions upon tradesman. I'd catch hold of your throat and
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: choke you for half a guinea Sidney Carton, who with
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: mister Florry, had been lost in amazement at this turn
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: of the business. Here requested mister Cruncher to moderate and
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: explain himself at another time, Sir, he returned evasively. The
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: present time is ill convenient for explaining. What I stand
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: to is that he knows well what that their cly
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: was never in at their coffin. Let him say he
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: was in so much as a word of one syllable,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: and I'll either catch hold of his throat and choke
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: him for half a guinea. Mister Cruncher dwelt upon this
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: as quite a liberal offer, or I'll out and announce him. Humph,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I see one thing, said Carton. I hold another card,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad. Impossible here in raging Paris, with suspicion filling
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the air for you to outlive denunciation, when you are
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: in communication with another aristocratic spy of the same antecedents
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: as yourself, who moreover has the mystery about him of
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: having feigned death and come to life again. A plot
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: in the prison of the foreigner against the Republic. A
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: strong card, a certain guillotine card. Do you play no
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: return the spy? I throw up, I confess that we
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: got away from England at the risk of being duck
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: to death, and that cly was so ferreted up and
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: down that he never would have got away at all
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: but for that sham. Though how this man knows it
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: was a sham is a wonder of wonders to me.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Never you trouble your head about this man, retorted the
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: contentious mister Cruncher. You'll have trouble enough with giving your
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: attention to that gentleman. And look here once more. Mister
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Cruncher could not be restrained from making rather an ostentatious
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: parade of his liberality. I'd catch hold of your throat
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: and choke you for half a guinea. The sheep of
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the prisons turned from him to Sydney Carton and said,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: with more decision, it has come to a point. I
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: go on duty soon and can't overstay my time. You
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: told me you had a proposal. What is it now?
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: It is of no use asking too much of me,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: ask me to do anything in my office, putting my
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: head in great extra danger, and I had better trust
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: my life to the chances of a refusal than the
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: chances of consent. In short, I should make that choice.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: You talk of desperation. We are all desperate here. Remember,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I may denounce you if I think proper, and I
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: can swear my way through stone walls, and so can others.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Now what do you want with me? Not very much.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: You are a turnkey at the Conciergerie. I tell you
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: once for all. There is no such thing as an
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: escape possible, said the spy firmly. Why need you tell
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: me what I have not asked? You are a turnkey
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: at the Conciergerie. I am. Sometimes you can be when
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: you choose, I can pass us in and out when
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I choose. Sydney Carton filled another glass with brandy, poured
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: it slowly out upon the hearth, and watched it as
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: it dropped, it being all spent, he said, rising, so
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: far we have spoken before these two, because it was
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: as well that the merits of the cards should not
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: rest solely between you and me. Come into the dark
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: room here and let us have one final word alone.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Chapter nine, the game made while Sydney Carton and the
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: speaking so low that not a sound was heard. Mister
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: honest tradesman's manner of receiving the look did not inspire confidence.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: He changed the leg on which he rested as often
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: as if he had fifty of those limbs and were
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: trying them all. He examined his finger nails with a
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: very questionable closeness of attention, and whenever mister Laurie's i
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind of
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: short cough, requiring the hollow of a hand before it,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: On perfect openness of character, Jerry said, mister Lorry, come here.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Mister Cruncher came forward sideways, with one of his shoulders
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: in advance of him. What have you been besides a messenger?
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying agical tooral character.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: My mind misgives me much, said mister Laurie, angrily, shaking
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: a forefinger at him, that you have used the respectable
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: and great house of Tellson's as a blind, and that
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous description.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: If you have, don't expect me to befriend you when
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: you get back to England. If you have, don't expect
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: me to keep your secret. Tellson shall not be imposed upon.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I hope, sir, pleaded the abashed mister Cruncher, that a
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: gentleman like yourself, would I have had the honor of
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: odd jobbing till i'm gray at it, would think twice
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: about harming of me, even if it was so, I
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: don't say it is. But even if it was, and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: which it is to be took into account that if
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: it was, it wouldn't even then be all O one side.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: There'd be two sides to it. There might be medical
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: where honest tradesmen don't pick up his far dends far
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: dends no, nor yet his half far dends half far
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: dends no, nor yet his quarter, A banking away like
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: smoke at Tellson's, and a cocking their medical eyes at
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: that tradesman on the sly, A going in and going
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: out to their own carriages, ah, equally like smoke, if
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: not more so well, that U'd be imposing two on Tellson's,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: for you cannot sarcee the goose and not the gander.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: And here's missus cruncher, or leastways wass in the old
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: England times, and would be tomorrow if cause given a
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: flop pin again the business to that degree as is ruinating,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: stark ruinating, whereas the medical doctors wives don't flop, catch
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: em at it, or if they flop, their floppings goes
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: in favor of more patience. And how can you rightly
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: have one without t'other? Then? What with undertakers, and what
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: with parish clerks, and what with sextons, and what with
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: private watchmen? All ourisious and all in it. A man
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: And what little a man did get would never prosper
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: with him. Mister Lorry, he'd never have no good of it.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: He'd want all along to be out of the line
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: if he could see his way out being once in,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: even if it was so, Ah, cried mister Lorry, rather relenting. Nevertheless,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I am shocked at the sight of you. Now what
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I would humbly offer to you, sir, pursued mister Cruncher.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Even if it was so, which I don't say it is,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: don't prevaricate, said mister Lorry. No, I will not, sir,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: return mister Crunches, as if nothing were further from his
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: thoughts or practice, which I don't say it is. What
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: I would humbly offer to you, Sir, would be this
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: upon their stool, at that there bar sets, that their
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: boy of mine brought up and growed up to be
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: a man. What will errand you message you general light
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: job you till your heels is where your head is,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: if such should be your wishes. If it was so,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: which I still don't say it is, for I will
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: not prewaricate to you, sir. Let that their boy keep
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: his father's place and take care of his mother. Don't
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: blow upon that boy's father. Do not do it, sir,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And let that father go into the line of the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: redge lar diggin and make amends for what he would
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: have undug if it was so, by diggin of em
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: in with a will and with convictions respectin the feud,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: keepin of em safe that, mister Lorry, said mister Cruncher,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: wiping his forehead with his arm as an announcement that
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: he had arrived at the peroration of his discourse. Is
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: what I would respectfully offer to you, sir, A man
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: don't see all this here agoin on dreadful round him
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: in the way of subjects without heads. Dear me, plentiful
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: enough fur to bring the price down to Portridge, and
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: hardly that without having his serious thoughts of things, and
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: these here would be mine if it was so entreatin
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: of eu fur to bear in mind that what I
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: said just now I up and said in the good cause,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: when I might have kept it back. That at least
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: is true, said mister Lorry. Say no more. Now. It
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: may be that I shall yet stand your friend, if
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: you deserve it, and repent in action, not in words.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I want no more words. Mister Cruncher knuckled his forehead
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: as Sidney Carton and the spy returned from the dark room. Adieu,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: mister Barsad, said the former. Our arrangement thus made you
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: have nothing to fear from me. He sat down in
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: a chair on the hearth over against mister Lorry. When
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: they were alone, mister Lorry asked him what he had done.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Not much, if it should go ill with the prisoner.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I have insured access to him. Once mister Lorry's countenance fell.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: It is all I could do, said Carton. To propose
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: too much would be to put this man's head under
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: the axe. And as he himself said, nothing worse could
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: happen to him if he were denounced. It was obviously
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the weakness of the position. There is no help for it,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: but access to him, said mister Lorry. If it should
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: go ill before the tribunal, will not save him. I
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: never said it would. Mister Lorrie's eyes gradually sought the fire.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: His sympathy with his darling, and the heavy disappointment of
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: his second arrest gradually weakened them. He was an old man,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: now overborne with anxiety of late, and his tears fell.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: You are a good man and a true friend, said Carton,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: in an altered voice. Forgive me if I notice that
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: you are affected. I could not see my father weep
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: and sit by careless, and I could not respect your
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: sorrow more if you were my father. You are free
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: from that misfortune. However, though he said the last words
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: with a slip into his usual manner, there was a
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: true feeling in respect, both in his tone and in
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: his touch that mister Laurie, who had never seen the
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: better side of him, was wholly unprepared for. He gave
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: him his hand, and Carton gently pressed it to return
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: to poor Darnay, said Carton, don't tell her of this
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: interview or this arrangement. It would not enable her to
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: go to see him. She might think it was contrived,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: in case of the worse, to convey to him the
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: means of anticipating the sentence. Mister Lorry had not thought
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: of that, and he looked quickly at Carton to see
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: if it were in his mind. It seemed to be.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: He returned the look and evidently understood it. She might
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: think of thousand things, Carton said, and any of them
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: would only add to her trouble. Don't speak of me
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: to her, as I said to you when I first came,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: I had better not see her. I can put my
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: hand out to do any little helpful work for her
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: that my hand can find to do. Without that you
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: are going to her, I hope she must be very
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: desolate tonight. I am going now directly. I am glad
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: of that she has such a strong attachment to you
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: and reliance on you. How does she look anxious and unhappy,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: but very beautiful. Ah. It was a long, grieving sound,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: like a sigh, almost like a sob. It attracted mister
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Laurie's eyes to Carton's face, which was turned to the fire.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: A light or a shade, the old gentleman could not
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: have said, which passed from it as swiftly as a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: change will sweep over a hillside on a wild bright day.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: And he lifted his foot to put back one of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: the little flaming logs which was tumbling forward. He wore
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: the white riding coat and top boots then in vogue,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: and the light of the fire touching their light surfaces,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: made him look very pale, with his long brown hair
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: all untrimmed, hanging loose about him. His indifference to fire
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: was sufficiently remarkable to elicit a word of remonstrance from
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: mister Laurie. His boot was still upon the hot embers
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: of the flaming log when it had broken under the
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: weight of his foot. I forgot it, he said. Mister
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Lorry's eyes were again attracted to his face, taking note
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: of the wasted air which clouded the naturally handsome features,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: and having the expression of prisoner's faces. Fresh in his mind.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: He was strongly reminded of that expression. And your duties
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: here have drawn to an end, Sir, said Carton, turning
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: to him. Yes, as I was telling you last night
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: when Lucy came in so unexpectedly, I have at length
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: done all that I can do here. I hoped to
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: have left them in perfect safety, and then to have
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: quitted Paris. I have my leave to pass. I was
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: ready to go. They were both silent. Yours is a
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: long life to look back upon, Sir, said Carton wistfully.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: I am in my seventy eighth year. You have been
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: useful all your life, steadily and constantly occupied, trusted, respected
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: and looked up to. I have been a man of
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: business ever since I have been a man. Indeed, I
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: may say that I was a man of business when
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: a boy see what a place you fill at seventy eight?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: How many people will miss you when you leave it empty?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: A solitary old bachelor answered mister Lorry, shaking his head.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: There is nobody to weep for me. How can you
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: say that? Wouldn't she weep for you? Wouldn't her child? Yes, yes,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: thank god, I didn't quite mean what I said. It
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: is a thing to thank God for? Is it not? Surely?
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Surely if you could say, with truth to your own
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: solitary heart to night, I have secured to myself the
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: love and attachment, the gratitude or respect of no human creature.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: I have won myself a tender place in no regard.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: by your seventy eight years would be seventy eight heavy curses,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: would they not, you say, truly, mister Carton, I think
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: they would be. Sidney turned his eyes again upon the fire,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: and after a silence of a few moments, said, I
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: should like to ask you, does your childhood seem far off?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: seen days of very long ago? Responding to his softened manner,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: mister Lorry answered, twenty years back. Yes, at this time
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: of my life know for as I draw closer and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: closer to the end, I travel in a circle nearer
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way. My
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: heart is touched now by many remembrances that had long
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: fallen asleep of my pretty young mother, and I so old,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: and by many associations of the days when what we
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: call the world was not so real with me, and
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: my faults were not confirmed in me. I understand the feeling,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Carton with a bright flush, and you are the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: better for it, I hope. So. Carton terminated the conversation
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: here by rising to help him on with his outer coat.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: But you, said mister Lorry, reverting to the theme you
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: are young, Yes, said Carton, I am not old, but
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: my young way was never the way to age. Enough
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: of me and of me I am sure, said mister Lorry.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Are you going out? I'll walk with you to her gate.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: You know my vagabond and restless habits. If I should
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: prowl about the streets a long time, don't be uneasy.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I shall reappear in the morning. You go to the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: court tomorrow, yes, unhappily, I shall be there, but only
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: as one of the crowd. My spy will find a
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: place for me. Take my arm, sir. Mister Lorry did so,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: and they went downstairs and out in the streets. A
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: few minutes brought them to mister Lorry's destination. Carton left
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: him there, but lingered at a little distance, and turned
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: back to the gate again when it was shut, and
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: touched it. He had heard of her going to the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: prison every day. She came out here, he said, looking
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: about him, turned this way. Must have trod on these
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: stones often. Let me follow in her steps. It was
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: ten o'clock at night when he stood before the prison
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: of La Force, where she had stood hundreds of times.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: A little wood sawyer, having closed his shop, was smoking
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: his pipe at his shop door. Good Night, citizen, said
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Sydney Carton, pausing and going by for the man eyed
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: him in inquisitively. Good night, citizen, How goes the republic?
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You mean the guillotine? Not ill sixty three? Today? We
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: shall mount to one hundred soon. Samson and his men
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: complain sometimes of being exhausted. Ha ha ha. He is
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: so droll that Samson. Such a barber. Do you often
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: go to see him shave always every day? What a barber?
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: You have seen him at work? Never go and see
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: him when he has a good batch. Figure this to yourself, citizen.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: He shaved the sixty three today in less than two pipes.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Less than two pipes, word of honor. As the grinning
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: little man held out the pipe he was smoking to
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: explain how he timed the executioner. Carton was so sensible
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: of a rising desire to strike the life out of
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: him that he turned away. But you are not English,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: said the wood sawyer, though you wear English dress. Yes,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: said Carton, pausing again and answering over his shoulder. You
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: speak like a Frenchman. I am an old student here, aha,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: a perfect Frenchman. Good night Englishman, Good night citizen. But
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: go and see that droll dog, the little man persisted,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: calling after him, and take a pipe with you. Sidney
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: had not gone far out of sight when he stopped
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the street under a glimmering lamp
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: and wrote with his pencil on a scrap of paper,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: then traversing with the decided step of one who remembered
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: the way well, several dark and dirty streets, much dirtier
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: than usual for the best public thoroughfares, remained uncleansed in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: those times of terror. He stopped at a chemist's shop
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: which the owner was closing with his own hands, A small,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: dim crooked shop kept in a tortuous uphill thoroughfare by
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: a small, dim crooked man, giving this citizen two good
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: night as he confronted him at his counter. He laid
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: the scrap of paper before him. Few The chemist whistled
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: softly as he read it, Hi Hi Hi. Sydney Carton
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: took no heed, and the chemist said, for you, citizen,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: for me, you will be careful to keep them separate. Citizen,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: you know the consequences of mixing them perfectly. Certain small
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: packets were made and given to him. He put them
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: one by one in the breast of his inner coat,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: counted out the money for them, and deliberately left the shop.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: There is nothing more to do, said he, glancing upward
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: at the moon. Until tomorrow, I can't sleep. It was
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: not a reckless manner, the manner in which he said
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: these words aloud under the fast sailing clouds. Nor was
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: it more expressive of negligence than defiance. It was the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: settled manner of a tired man who had wandered and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: struggled and got lost, but who at length struck into
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: his road and saw its end. Long ago, when he
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: had been famous among his earliest competitors as a youth
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: of great promise, he had followed his father to the grave.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: His mother had died years before. These solemn words which
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: had been read at his father's grave, arose in his
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: mind as he went down the dark streets, among the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: heavy shadows, with the moon the cloud sailing on high
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: above him. I am the resurrection in the life set
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the Lord, he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: shall never die. In a city dominated by the axe,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: alone at night, with natural sorrow rising in him for
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: the sixty three who had been that day put to death,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: and for tomorrow's victims then awaiting their doom in the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: prisons and still of tomorrow's and tomorrows. The chain of
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: association that brought the word its home like a rusty
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: old ship's anchor from the deep, might have been easily found.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: He did not seek it, but repeated them, and went
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: on with a solemn interest in the lighted windows where
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: calm hours of the horror surrounding them, in the towers
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: of the churches, where no prayers were said. For the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: popular revulsion had even traveled that length of self destruction
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates in the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: distant burial places, reserved as they rode upon the gates
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: for eternal sleep, in the abounding jails, and in the
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: had become so common and material that no sorrowful story
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: of a haunting spirit ever arose among the people out
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: of all the working of the guillotine. With a solemn
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: interest in the whole life and death of the city,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: settling down to its short nightly pause in fury, Sydney,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets. Few
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: coaches were abroad, for riders in coaches were liable to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: be suspected, and gentility hid its head in red nightcaps
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: and put on heavy shoes and trudged. But the theaters
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: were all well filled, and the people poured cheerfully out.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: As he passed and went chatting home. At one of
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: the theater doors, there was a little girl with a mother,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: looking for a way across the street through the mud.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: He carried the child over, and before the timid arm
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: was loosed from his neck, asked her for a kiss.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: I am the Resurrection and the life set the Lord.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: He that believeth in me, though he were dead, Yet
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: shall never die. Now that the streets were quiet and
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: the night wore on, the words were in the echoes
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: of his feet, and were in the air, perfectly calm
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: and steady. He sometimes repeated them to himself as he walked,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: but he heard them always the night wore out, And
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: as he stood upon the bridge, listening to the water
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: as it splashed the ros ever walls of the island
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: of Paris, where the picturesque confusion of houses and cathedral
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: shone bright in the light of the moon, the day
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: came coldly, looking like a dead face out of the sky.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Then the night, with the moon and the stars, turned
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: pale and died, and for a little while it seemed
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: as if creation were delivered over to death's dominion. But
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: the glorious sun rising seemed to strike those words that
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: burden of the night straight and warm to his heart
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: in its long, bright rays, and looking along them with
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: reverently shaded eyes, a bridge of light appeared to span
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: the air between him and the sun, while the river
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: sparkled under it, the strong tide so swift, so deep
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: and certain, was like a congenial friend. In the morning stillness,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: he walked by the stream, far from the houses, and
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: in the light and warmth of the sun, fell asleep
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: on the bank. When he awoke and was afoot again,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: he lingered there yet a little longer, watching an eddy
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: that turned in turned purposeless, until the stream absorbed it
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: and carried it on to the sea. That, like me,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: a trading boat with a sail of the softened color
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: of a dead leaf, then glided into his view, floated
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: by him, and died away as its silent track in
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: the water disappeared. The prayer that had broken up out
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: of his heart for a merciful consideration of all his
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words I am
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: the Resurrection and the life. Mister Lorry was already out
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: when he got back, and it was easy to surmise
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: where the good old man was gone. Sydney Carton drank
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: nothing but a little coffee, ate some bread, and, having
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: washed and changed to refresh himself, went out to the
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: place of trial. The court was all astir in a
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: bus when the black sheep, whom many fell away from
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: in dread, pressed him into an obscure corner among the crowd.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Mister Lorry was there, and doctor Manette was there. She
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: was there, sitting beside her father. When her husband was
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: brought in, she turned the look of him, so sustaining,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: so encouraging, so full of admiring love and pitying tenderness,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: yet so courageous for his sake, that it called the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: healthy blood into his face, brightened his glance, and animated
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: his heart. If there had been any eyes to notice
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the influence of her look on Sydney Carton, it would
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: have been seen to be the same influence. Exactly before
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: that unjust tribunal, there was little or no order of
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: procedure insuring to any accused person any reasonable hearing. There
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: could have been no such revolution if all laws, forms,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: and ceremonies had not first been so monstrously abused, that
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: the suicidal vengeance of the revolution was to scatter them
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: all to the winds. Every eye was turned to the jury,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: the same determined patriots and good republicans as yesterday and
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: the day before, and tomorrow and the day after. Eager
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: and prominent among them one man with a craving face
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: and his fingers perpetually hovering about his lips, whose appearance
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: gave great satisfaction to the spectators. A life thirsting, cannibal looking,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: bloody minded juryman the Jacques three of a s. T Antoine,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: the whole jury as a jury of dogs, and paneled
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: to try the deer. Every eye then turned to the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: five judges and the public prosecutor, no favorable leaning in
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: that quarter to day a fell uncompromising murderous business. Meaning
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: there Every eye then sought some other eye in the
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: crowd and gleamed at it approvingly, and heads nodded at
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: one another, before bending forward with a strained attention. Charles
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: Evremond called Darnay released yesterday, re accused and retaken yesterday,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: indictment delivered to him last night, suspected and denounced enemy
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  Speaker 1: of the republic, aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants,
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  Speaker 1: one of a race prescribed for that they had used
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Charles Evremond called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: dead in law. To this effect, in as few or
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: fewer words, the public prosecutor the President asked, was the
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: accused openly denounced or secretly openly President, by whom three
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: voices Ernest defarge Wine Vender of a st Antoine, Good
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Therese defarge his wife good Alexander Manette, physician. A great
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: uproar took place in the court, and in the midst
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: of it, Doctor Manette was seen, pale and trembling, standing
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: where he had been seated. President, I indignantly protest to
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: you that this is a forgery and a fraud. You
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: know the accused to be the husband of my daughter.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter and those dear to her are far dearer
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: to me than my life. Who and where is the
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: false conspirator who says that I denounced the husband my child.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Citizen Manette, be tranquil. To fail in submission to the
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: authority of the tribunal would be to put yourself out
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: of law. As to what is dearer to you than life.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Nothing can be so dear to a good citizen as
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: the republic loud acclamations hailed this rebuke. The President rang
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: his bell, and with warmth resumed. If the Republic should
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: demand of you the sacrifice of your child herself, you
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: would have no duty but to sacrifice her. Listen to
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: what is to follow in the meanwhile be silent. Frantic
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: acclamations were again raised. Doctor Manette sat down with his
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: eyes looking around and his lips trembling. His daughter drew
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: closer to him. The craving man on the jury rubbed
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: his hands together and restored the usual hand to his mouth.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Defarge was produced when the court was quiet enough to
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: admit of his being heard, and rapidly expounded the story
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: of the imprisonment and of his having been a mere
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: boy in the doctor, sir, and of the release and
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: of the state of the prisoner when released and delivered
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: to him. This short examination followed, for the court was
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: quick with its work. You did good service at the
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: taking of the Bastille citizen. I believe so. Here, an
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: excited woman screeched from the crowd. You were one of
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: the best patriots there. Why not say so? You were
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: a cannoneer that day there, and you were among the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: first to enter the accursed fortress when it fell. Patriots,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: I speak the truth. It was the Vengeance who, amidst
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: the warm commendations of the audience, thus assisted the proceedings.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: The President rang his bell, but the Vengeance, warming with encouragement,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: shrieked I defy that bell, wherein she was likewise much commended,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: informed the tribunal of what you did that day within
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: the bastille, citizen, I knew, said Defarge, looking down at
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: his wife, who stood at the bottom of the steps
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: on which he was raised, looking steadily up at him.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: I knew that this prisoner of whom I speak had
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: been confined in a cell known as one hundred and
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: five North Tower. I knew it from himself. He knew
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: himself by no other name than one hundred and five
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: North Tower when he made shoes under my care. As
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: I serve my gun that day, I resolve, when the
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: place shall fall, to examine that cell. It falls, I
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: mount to the cell with a fellow citizen who is
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: one of the jury. Directed by a jailer, I examine
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: it very closely. In a hole in the chimney, where
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: a stone has been worked out and replaced, I find
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: a written paper. This is that written paper. I have
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: made it my business to examine some specimens of the
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: writing of doctor Manette. This is the writing of doctor Manette.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: I confide this paper in the writing of doctor Manette,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: to the hands of the President. Let it be read
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: in a dead silence and stillness, the prisoner under trial
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: looking lovingly at his wife, his wife only looking from
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: him to look with solicitude at her father, Doctor Manette,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: keeping his eyes fixed on the reader, Madame Defarge, never
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: taking hers from the prisoner, Defarge, never taking his from
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: his feasting wife, and all the other eyes there intent
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: upon the doctor, who saw none of them. The paper
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: was read as follows, Chapter ten, The Substance of the
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: Shadow Eye. Alexander Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: doleful cell in the Bastille during the last month of
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: the year seventeen sixty seven. I write it at stolen intervals,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: under every difficulty I designed to secrete it in the
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: made a place of concealment for it. Some pitying hand
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: may find it there when I, in my sorrows, are dust.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: These words are formed by the rusty iron point with
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: which I write with difficulty, in scrapings of soot and
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: charcoal from the chimney mixed with blood. In the last
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: month of the tenth year of my captivity, hope has
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: quite departed from my breast. I know from terrible warnings.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: I have noted in myself that my reason will not
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: long remain unimpaired. But I solemnly declare that I am
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: at this time in the possession of my right mind,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: that my memory is exact and circumstantial, and that I
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: write the truth as I shall answer for these my
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: last recorded words, whether they be ever read by men
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: or not, at the eternal judgment seat. One cloudy moonlight
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: night in the third week of December, I think the
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: twenty second of the month, in the year seventeen fifty seven,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: I was walking on a retired part of the quay
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: by the Saying for the refreshment of the frosty Air,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: at an hour's distance from my place of residence in
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: the street of the School of Medicine, when a carriage
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: came along behind me, driven very fast. As I stood
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: aside to let that carriage pass, apprehensive that it might
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: otherwise run me down, a head was put out at
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: the window, and a void called to the driver to stop.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: The carriage stopped as soon as the driver could rein
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: in his horses, and the same voice called to me
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: by my name, I answered. The carriage was then so
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: far in advance of me that two gentlemen had time
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: to open the door and alight before I came up
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: with it. I observed that they were both wrapped in
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: cloaks and appeared to conceal themselves as they stood side
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: by side near the carriage door. I also observed that
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: they both looked of about my own age, or rather younger,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: and that they were greatly alike in stature, manner, voice,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: and as far as I could see face two. You
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: are doctor Manette, said one. I am doctor Manette, formerly
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: of Beauvais, said the other, the young physician, originally an
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: expert surgeon, who within the last year or two has
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: made a rising reputation in Paris. Gentlemen, I returned, I
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: am that doctor Manette, of whom you speak so graciously.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: We have been to your residence, said the first, and,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: not being so fortunate as to find you there, and
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: being informed that you were probably walking in this direction,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: we followed in the hope of overtaking you. Will you
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: please to enter the carriage. The manner of both was imperious,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: and they both moved as these words were spoken so
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: as to place me between themselves and the carriage door.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: They were armed. I was not gentlemen, said I pardon me,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: But I usually inquire, who does me the honor to
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: seek my assistance? And what is the nature of the
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: case to which I am summoned. The reply to this
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: was made by him who had spoken. Second, Doctor, your
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: clients are people of condition as to the nature of
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: the case. Our confidence in your skill assures us that
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: you will ascertain it for yourself better than we can
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: describe it enough, Will you please to enter the carriage.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: I could do nothing but comply, and I entered it
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: in silence. They both entered after me, the last springing in.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: After putting up the steps, the carriage turned about and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: drove on at its former speed. I repeat this conversation
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: exactly as it occurred. I have no doubt that it
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: is word for word the same. I describe everything exactly
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: as it took place, constraining my mind not to wander
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: from the task where I make the broken marks that
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: follow here, I leave off for the time and put
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: my paper in its hiding place. The carriage left the
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: streets behind, passed the north barrier, and emerged upon the
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: country road at two thirds of a league from the barrier.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: I did not estimate the distance at that time, but afterwards,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: when I traversed it, it struck out of the main
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: avenue and presently stopped at a solitary house. We all
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: three alighted and walked by a damp, soft footpath in
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed to the
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: door of the house. It was not opened immediately in
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: answer to the ringing of the bell, and one of
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: my two conductors struck the man who opened it with
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: his heavy riding glove across the face. There was nothing
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: in this action to attract my particular attention, for I
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: had seen common people struck more commonly than dogs. But
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: the other of the two, being angry, likewise struck the
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: man in like manner with his arm. The look and
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: bearing of the brothers were then so exactly alike that
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I then first perceived them to be twin brothers. From
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the time of our alighting at the outer gate, which
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: we found locked, and which one of the brothers had
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: opened to admit us and had relocked, I had heard
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: cries proceeding from an upper chamber. I was conducted to
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: this chamber strait, the cries growing louder as we ascended
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: the stairs, and I found a patient in a high
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: fever of the brain, lying on a bed. The patient
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: was a woman of great beauty and young, assuredly not
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: much past twenty. Her hair was torn and ragged, and
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: her arms were bound to her sides with sashes and handkerchiefs.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: I noticed that these bonds were all portions of a
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: gentleman's dress. On one of them, which was a fringed
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: scarf for a dress of ceremony, I saw the armorial
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: bearings of a noble and the letter E. I saw
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: this within the first minute of my contemplation of the patient,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: for in her restless striving, she had turned over on
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: her face on the edge of the bed, had drawn
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: the end of the scarf into her mouth, and was
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: in danger of suffocation. My first act was to put
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: out my hand to relieve her breathing, and, in moving
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: the scarf aside, the embroidery in the corner caught my sight.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: I turned her gently over, placed my hands upon her
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: breast to calm her and keep her down, and looked
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: into her face. Her eyes were dilated and wild, and
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: she constantly uttered piercing shrieks and repeated the words my husband,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: my father, and my brother, and then counted up to
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: twelve and said hush. For an instant and no more.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: She would pause to listen, and then the piercing shrieks
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: would begin again, and she would repeat the cry my husband,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: my father, and my brother, and would count up to
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: twelve and say hush. There was no variation in the
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: order or the manner. There was no cessation, but the
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: regular moments pause in the utterance of these sounds. How long,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: I asked, has this lasted? To distinguish the brothers, I
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: will call them the elder and the younger. By the elder,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: I mean him who exercised the most authority. It was
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: the elder who replied, since about this hour last night.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: She has a husband, a father, and a brother a brother.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: I do not address her brother, he answered, with great contempt. No,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: she has some recent association with the number twelve. The
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: younger brother impatiently rejoined with twelve o'clock. See, gentlemen, said
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: I still keeping my hands upon her breast. How useless
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: I am, as you have brought me. If I had
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: known what I I was coming to see. I could
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: have come, provided, as it is, time must be lost.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: There are no medicines to be obtained in this lonely place.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: The elder brother looked to the younger, who said, haughtily,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: there is a case of medicines here, and brought it
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: from a closet and put it on the table. I
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: opened some of the bottles, smelt them, and put the
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: stoppers to my lips. If I had wanted to use
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: anything save narcotic medicines that were poisons in themselves, I
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: would not have administered any of those. Do you doubt them,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: asked the younger brother. You see, monsieur, I am going
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: to use them, I replied, and said no more. I
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: made the patient swallow with great difficulty, and, after many efforts,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: the dose that I desired to give, as I intended
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: to repeat it after a while, and as it was
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: necessary to watch its influence. I then sat down by
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: the side of the bed. There was a timid and
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: suppressed woman in attendance, wife of the man down stairs,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: who had retreated into a corner. The house was damp
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: and decayed, indifferently furnished, evidently recently occupied, and temporarily used.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Some thick old hangings had been nailed up before the
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: windows to deaden the sound of the shrieks. They continued
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: to be uttered in their regular succession with the cry
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: my husband, my father, and my brother, the counting up
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: to twelve and hush. The frenzy was so violent that
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: I had not unfastened the bandages restraining the arms, but
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: I had looked to them to see that they were
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: not painful. The only spark of encouragement in the case
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: was that my hand upon the sufferer's breast had this
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: much soothing influence that for minutes at a time it
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: tranquilized the figure. It had no effect upon the cries.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: No pendulum could be more regular for the reason that
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: my hand had this effect. I assume I had sat
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: by the side of the bed for half an hour
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: with the two brothers looking on, before the elder said
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: there is an another patient. I was startled and asked,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: is it a pressing case? You had better see? He
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: carelessly answered and took up a light. The other patient
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: lay in a back room across a second staircase, which
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: was a species of loft over a stable. There was
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: a low plastered ceiling to a part of it. The
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: rest was open to the ridge of the tiled roof,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: and there were beams across. Hay and straw were stored
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: in that portion of the place, faggots for firing, and
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: a heap of apples in sand. I had to pass
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: through that part to get at the other. My memory
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: is circumstantial and unshaken. I try it with these details,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: and I see them all in this my cell and
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: the bastille. Near the close of the tenth year of
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: my captivity, as I saw them all that night, on
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: his head, lay a handsome peasant boy, a boy of
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: not more than seventeen at the most. He lay on
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: his back, with his teeth set, his right hand clenched
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: on his breast, and his glaring eyes looking straight upward.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: I could not see where his wound was as I
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: kneeled on one knee over him, but I could see
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: that he was dying of a wound from a sharp point.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: I am a doctor, my poor fellow, said, I let
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: me examine it. I do not want it examined, he answered,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: let it be. It was under his hand, and I
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: soothed him to let me move his hand away. The
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: wound was a sword thrust received from twenty to twenty
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: for hours before, but no skill could have saved him
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: if it had been looked to without delay. He was
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: then dying fast. As I turned my eyes to the
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: elder brother, I saw him looking down at this handsome boy,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: whose life was ebbing out, as if he were a
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: wounded bird or hare or rabbit, not at all, as
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: if he were a fellow creature. How has this been done, monsieur,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: said I. A crazed young common dog, a serf, forced
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: my brother to upon him, and has fallen by my
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: brother's sword like a gentleman. There was no touch of pity, sorrow,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: or kindred humanity in this answer. The speaker seemed to
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: acknowledge that it was inconvenient to have that different order
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: of creature dying there, and that it would have been
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: better if he had died in the usual obscure routine
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: of his vermin kind. He was quite incapable of any
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: compassionate feeling about the boy or about his fate. The
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: boy's eyes had slowly moved to him as he had spoken,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: and they now slowly moved to me. Doctor. They are
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: very proud, these nobles. But we common dogs are proud too.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: but we have a little pride left. Sometimes she have
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: you seen her? Doctor? The shrieks and the cries were
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: audible there, though subdued by the distance. He referred to
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: them as if she were lying in our presence. I said,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: I have seen her. She is my sister, doctor. They
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: have had their shameful rights, these nobles, in the modesty,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: in virtue of our sisters, many years. But we have
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: had good girls among us. I know it, and have
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: heard my father say so. She was a good girl.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: She was betrothed to a good young man too, a
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: tenant of his. We were all tenants of his. That
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: man's who stands there. The other is his brother, the
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: worst of a bad race. It was with the greatest
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: difficulty that the boy gathered bodily force to speak, But
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: his spirit spoke with a dreadful emphasis. We were so
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: robbed by that man who stands there, as all we
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: common dogs are by those superior beings. Taxed by him
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: to grind our corn of his mill, obliged to feed
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: of our own. Pillaged and plundered to that degree that
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: ate it in fear, with the door barred and the
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: shutters closed, that his people should not see it and
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: take it from us. I say, we were so robbed
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: child into the world, and that what we should most
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: pray for was that our women might be barren in
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: our miserable race die out. I had never before seen
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: the sense of being oppressed bursting forth like a fire.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: I had supposed that it must be latent in the
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: people somewhere, but I had never seen it break out
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: until I saw it in the dying boy. Nevertheless, doctor
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: my sister married. He was ailing at that time, poor fellow,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: and she married her lover that she might tend and
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: comfort him in our cottage, our dog hut, as that
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: man would call it. She had not been married many
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: weeks when that man's brother saw her and admired her
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: and asked that man to lend her to him, for
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: what are husbands among us? He was willing enough, But
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: my sister was good and virtuous, and hated his brother
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: with a hatred as strong as mine. What did the
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: two then to persuade her husband to use his influence
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: with her to make her willing. The boy's eyes, which
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: had been fixed on mine, slowly turned to the looker on,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: and I saw in the two faces that all he
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: said was true. The two opposing kinds of pride confronting
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: one another, I can see even in this bastille, the
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: gentleman's all negligent indifference, the peasants all trodden down sentiment
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: and passionate revenge. You know, doctor, that it is among
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: the rights of these nobles to harness us common dogs,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: to carts and drive us. They so harnessed him and
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: drove him. You know that it is among their rights
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: to keep us in their grounds all night, quieting the frogs,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: in order that their noble sleep may not be disturbed.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: They kept him out in the unwholesome mists at night,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: and ordered him back into his harness in the day.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: But he was not persuaded. No taken out of harness
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: one day at noon to feed if he could find food.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: He sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: and died on her bosom. Nothing human could have held
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: life in the boy, but his determination to tell all
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: his wrong He forced back the gathering shadows of death
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: and to cover his wound. Then, with that man's permission,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: and even with his aid, his brother took her away.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: In spite of what I know she must have told
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: his brother, And what that is will not be long
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: unknown to you, doctor, if it is now, His brother
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: took her away for his pleasure and diversion for a
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: little while. I saw her pass me on the road.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: When I took the tidings home our father's heart burst,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: he never spoke one of the words that filled it.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: I took my young sister, for I have another, to
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: a place beyond the reach of this man, and where
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: at least she will never be his vassal. Then I
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: tracked the brother here, and last night climbed in a
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: common dog, but sword in hand. Dot where is the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: loft window? It was somewhere here the room was darkening.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: To his sight. The world was narrowing around him. I
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: glanced about me and saw that the hay and straw
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: were trampled over the floor, as if there had been
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: a struggle. She heard me and ran in. I told
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: her not to come near us till he was dead.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: He came in and first tossed me some pieces of money,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: then struck at me with a whip. But I, though
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: a common dog, so struck at him as to make
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: him draw. Let him break into as many pieces as
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: he will. The sword that he stained with my common blood.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: He drew to defend himself, thrust at me with all
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: his skill for his life. My glance had fallen but
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: a few moments before on the fragments of a broken
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: sword lying among the hay. That weapon was a gentleman.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: In another place lay an old sword that seemed to
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: have been a soldier's. Now, lift me up, doctor, lift
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: me up. Where is he? He is not here? I said,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: supporting the boy, and thinking that he referred to the brother.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: He proud as these nobles are, He is afraid to
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: see me. Where is the man who was here? Turn
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: my face to him? I did so, raising the boy's
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: head against my knee, but invested for the moment with
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: extraordinary power. He raised himself, completely obliging me to rise too,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: or I could not have still supported him, Marquis said.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: The boy turned to him with his eyes opened wide
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: and his right hand raised. In the days when all
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: these things are to be answered, for I summon you
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: and yours to the last of your bad race, to
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: answer for them. I mark this cross of blood upon
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: you as a sign that I do it. In the
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: days when all these things are to be answered, for
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: I summon your brother, the worst of the bad race,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: to answer for them separately, I marked this cross of
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: blood upon him as a sign that I do it. Twice.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: He put his hands to the wound in his breast,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: and with his forefinger drew across in the air. He
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: stood for an instant with the finger yet raised, and
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: as it dropped, he dropped with it, and I laid
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: him down dead. When I returned to the bedside of
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: the young woman, I found her raving in precisely the
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: same order of continuity. I knew that this might last
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: for many hours, and that it would probably end in
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: the silence of the grave. I repeated the medicines I
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: had given her, and I sat at the side of
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: the bed until the night was far advanced. She never
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: abetted the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: the distinctness or the order of her words. They were
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: always my husband, my father, and my brother. One two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: twelve Hush. This lasted twenty six hours from the time
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: when I first saw her. I had come and gone twice,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: and was again sitting by her when she began to falter.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: I did what little could be done to assist that opportunity,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: and by and by she sank into a lethargy and
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: lay like the dead. It was as if the wind
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: and rain had lolled at last after a long and
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: fearful storm. I released her arms and called the woman
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: to assist me to compose her figure and the dress
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: she had torn. It was then that I knew her
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: condition to be that of one in whom the first
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: expectations of being a mother have arisen. And it was
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: then that I lost the little hope I had had
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: of her. Is she dead? Asked the marquis, whom I
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: will still describe as the elder brother, coming booted into
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: the room from his horse. Not dead, said I, but
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: like to die. What strength there is in these common bodies,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: he said, looking down at her with some curiosity, There
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: is prodigious strength, I answered him in sorrow and despair.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: He first laughed at my words, and then frowned at them.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: He moved a chair with his foot near to mine,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: ordered the woman away, and said, in a subdued voice, doctor,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: finding my brother in this difficulty, with these hinds, I
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: recommended that your aid should be invited. Your reputation is high,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: and as a young man with your fortune to make,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: you are probably mindful of your interest. The things that
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: you see here are things to be seen and not
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: spoken of. I listened to the patient's breathing and avoided answering,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: do you honor me with your attention? Doctor monsieur, said I.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: In my profession the communications of patience are always received
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: in confidence. I was guarded in my answer, for I
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: was troubled in my mind with what I had heard
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: and seen. Her breathing was so difficult to trace that
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: I carefully tried the pulse and the heart. There was
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: life and no more. Looking round. As I resumed my seat,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: I found both the brother's intent upon me. I write
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: with so much difficulty. The cold is so severe. I
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: underground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: There is no confusion or failure in my memory. It
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: can recall and could detail every word that was ever
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: spoken between me and those brothers. She lingered for a
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: week towards the last I could understand some few syllables
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: that she said to me by placing my ear close
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: to her lips. She asked me where she was, and
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: I told her who I was, and I told her
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: it was in vain that I asked her for her
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: family name. She faintly shook her head upon the pillow
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: and kept her secret, as the boy had done. I
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: had no opportunity of asking her any question until I
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: had told the brother she was sinking fast and could
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: not live another day. Until then, though no one was
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: ever presented to her consciousness save the woman and myself,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: one or other of them had always jealously sat behind
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: the curtain at the head of the bed when I
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: was there, But when it came to that, they seemed
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: careless what communication I might hold with her, as if
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: the thought passed through my mind I were dying too.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: I always observed that their pride bitterly resented the younger brothers,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: as I call him, having crossed swords with a peasant,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: and that peasant a boy. The only consideration that appeared
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: to affect the mind of either of them was the
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: consideration that this was highly degrading to the family and
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: was ridiculous. As often as I caught the younger brother's eyes,
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: their expression reminded me that he disliked me deeply, for
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: knowing what I knew from the boy. He was smoother
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: and more polite to me than the elder. But I
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: saw this. I also saw that I was an incumbrance
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: in the mind of the elder too. My patient died
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: two hours before midnight, at a time by my watch,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: answering almost to the minute when I had first seen her.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: I was alone with her when her forlorn young head
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: drooped gently on one side, and all her earthly wrongs
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: and sorrows ended. The brothers were waiting in a room downstairs,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: impatient to ride away. I had heard them alone at
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: the bedside, striking their boots with their riding whips and
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: loitering up and down. At last, she is dead, said
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: the elder. When I went in. She is dead, said I.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: I congratulate you, my brother, were his words, as he
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: turned round. He had before offered me money, which I
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: had postponed taking. He now gave me a rouleau of gold.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: I took it from his hand, but laid it on
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: the table. I had considered the question and had resolved
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: to accept nothing. Pray, excuse me, said I, under the circumstances. No.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: They exchanged looks, but bent their heads to me as
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: I bent mine to them, and we parted without another
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: word on either side. I am weary, weary, weary, worn
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: down by misery. I cannot read what I have written
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: with this gaunt hand. Early in the morning, the rouleau
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: of gold was left at my door, in a little
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: box with my name on the outside. From the first
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: I had anxiously considered what I ought to do. I
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: decided that day to write privately to the Minister, stating
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: the nature of the two cases to which I had
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: been summoned and the place to which I had gone,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: in effect stating all the circumstances. I knew what court
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: influence was and what the immunities of the nobles were.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: And I expected that the matter would never be heard of.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: But I wished to relieve my own mind. I had
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: kept the matter a profound secret, even from my wife,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: and this too I resolved to state in my letter.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: I had no apprehension whatever of my real danger, but
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: I was conscious that there might be danger for others
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: if others were compromised by possessing the knowledge that I possessed.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: I was much engaged that day and could not complete
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: my letter that night. I rose long before my usual
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: time next morning to finish it. It was the last
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: day of the year. The letter was lying before me,
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: just completed when I was told that a lady waited
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: who wished to see me. I am growing more and
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: more unequal to the task I have set myself. It
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: is so cold, so dark, My senses are so benumbed,
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: and the gloom upon me is so dreadful. The lady
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: was young, engaging and handsome, but not marked for long life.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: She was in great agitation. She presented herself to me
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: as the wife of the Marquis S. T Evremonde. I
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: connected the title by which the boy had addressed the
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: elder brother with the initial letter embroidered on the scarf,
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: and had no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: I had seen that nobleman very lately. My memory is
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: still accurate, but I cannot write the words of our conversation.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: I suspect that I am watched more closely than I was,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: and I know not at what times I may be watched.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: She had in part suspected and in part discovered the
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: main facts of the cruel story, of her husband's share
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: in it, and my being resorted to. She did not
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: know that the girl was dead. Her hope had been,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: she said, in great distress, to show her in secret
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: a woman's sympathy. Her hope had been to avert the
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: wrath of heaven from a house that had long been
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: hateful to the suffering many. She had reasons for believing
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: that there was a young sister living, and her greatest
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: desire was to help that sister. I could tell her
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: nothing but that there was such a sister. Beyond that,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: I knew nothing. Her inducement to come to me, relying
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: on my confidence, had been the hope that I could
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: tell her the name and place of abode, Whereas to
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: this wretched hour I am ignorant of both. These scraps
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: of paper fail me. One was taken from me with
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: a warning yesterday. I must finish my record to day.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: She was a good, compassionate lady and not happy in
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: her marriage. How could she be? The brother distrusted and
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: disliked her, and his influence was all opposed to her.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: She stood in dread of him, and in dread of
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: her husband too. When I handed her down to the door,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: there was a child, a pretty boy from two to
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: three years old, in her carriage. For his sake, doctor,
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: she said, pointing to him in tears, I would do
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: all I can to make what poor amends I can.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: He will never prosper in his inheritance otherwise. I have
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: for this, it will one day be required of him
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: what I have left to call my own. It is
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: little beyond the worth of a few jewels. I will
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: make it the first charge of his life to bestow,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: with the compassion and lamenting of his dead mother on
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: this injured family. If the sister can be discovered. She
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: kissed the boy and said, caressing him. It is for
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: thine own dear sake, thou wilt be faithful, Little Charles,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: the child answered her bravely yes. I kissed her hand,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: and she took him in her arms and went away,
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: caressing him. I never saw her more, As she had
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: mentioned her husband's name in the faith that I knew it,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: I added no mention of it to my letter. I
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: sealed my letter, and, not trusting it out of my
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: own hands, delivered it myself that day. That night, the
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: last night of the year, towards nine o'clock, a man
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: in a black dress rang at my gate, demanded to
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: see me, and softly followed my servant, Bernice Defarge, a
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: youth upstairs. When my servant came into the room where
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: I sat with my wife, O, my wife, beloved of
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: my heart, my fair young English wife, we saw the
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: man who was supposed to be at the gate, standing
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: silent behind him an urgent case in the rust Honore.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: He said it would not detain me. He had a
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: coach in waiting. It brought me here, It brought me
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: to my grave. When I was clear of the house,
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: and my arms were pinioned. The two brothers crossed the
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: road from a dark corner and identified me with a
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: single gesture. The marquis took from his pocket the letter
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: I had written, showed it me, burnt it in the
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: light of a lantern that was held, and extinguished the
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: ashes with his foot. Not a word was spoken. I
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: was brought here. I was brought to my living grave.
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  Speaker 1: If it had pleased God to put it in the
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: hard heart of either of the brothers in all these
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: so much as to let me know by a word
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: whether alive or dead, I might have thought that He
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: had not quite abandoned them. But now I believe that
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: the mark of the red Cross is fatal to them,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: and that they have no part in His mercies, and
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: them and their descendants to the last of their race. I,
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: Alexander Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: year seventeen sixty seven, in my unbearable agony, denounced to
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: the times when all these things shall be answered. For
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: I denounced them to heaven and to earth. A terrible
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: sound arose when the reading of this document was done
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: a sound of craving and eagerness that had nothing articulate
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: in it but blood. The narrative called up the most
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: head in a nation, but must have dropped before it.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: Little need, in presence of that tribunal and that auditory,
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: to show how the defarges had not made the paper
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: public with the other captured Bastille memorials born in procession,
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: and had kept it biding their time. Little need to
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: show that this detested family name had long been anathematized
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: by Saint Antoine and was wrought into the fatal register.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: The man never trod ground whose virtue, jews, and services
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: would have sustained him in that place that day against
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: such denunciation. And all the worse for the doomed man
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: that the denouncer was a well known citizen, his own
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: attached friend, the father of his wife. One of the
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: frenzied aspirations of the populace was for imitations of the
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: questionable public virtues of antiquity, and for sacrifices and self
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: immolations on the people's altar. Therefore, when the President said else,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: had his own head quivered on his shoulders, that the
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: good physician of the Republic would deserve better still of
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: the republic by rooting out an obnoxious family of aristocrats,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: and would doubtless feel a sacred glow and joy in
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: making his daughter a widow and her child an orphan.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: There was wild excitement, patriotic fervor, not a touch of
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: human sympathy, much influence around him, as that doctor murmured,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge, smiling to the vengeance. Save him, now, my doctor,
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: save him. At every juryman's vote there was a another,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: and another roar and roar, unanimously voted at heart and
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: by dissent, an aristocrat, an enemy of the republic, a
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: notorious oppressor of the people. Back to the conciergerie, and
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: death within four and twenty hours. Chapter eleven. Thust, the
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: wretched wife of the innocent man, thus doomed to die,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: fell under the sentence as if she had been mortally stricken.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: But she uttered no sound, and so strong was the
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: voice within her representing that it was she of all
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: the world who must uphold him in his misery and
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: not augment it, that it quickly raised her even from
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: that shock, the judges having to take part in a
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: public demonstration out of doors, the tribunal adjourned. The quick
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: noise and movement of the court's emptying itself by many
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: passages had not ceased when Lucie stood, stretching out her
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: arms towards her husband, with nothing in her face but
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: love and consolation. If I might touch him, if I
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: might embrace him once, Oh good citizens, if you would
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: have so much compassion for us. There was but a
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: jailer left, along with two of the four men who
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: had taken him last night, and Barsad. The people had
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: all poured out to the show in the streets. Barsad
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: proposed to the rest, let her embrace him. Then, it
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: is but a moment. It was silently acquiesced in, and
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: they passed her over the seats in the hall to
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: a raised place where he, by leaning over the dock,
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: could fold her in his arms. Farewell, dear darling, of
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: my soul, my parting, blessing on my love. We shall
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: meet again where the weary are at rest. They were
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: her husband's words as he held her to his bosom.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: I can bear it, dear Charles, I am supported from above.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: Don't suffer for me A parting blessing for our child.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: I send it to her by you, I kiss her
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: by you, I say farewell to her by you, my husband.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: No a moment he was tearing himself apart from her.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: We shall not be separated long. I feel that this
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: will break my heart by and by, but I will
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: do my duty while I can, and when I leave her,
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: God will raise up friends for her, as he did
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: for me. Her father had followed her and would have
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: fallen on his knees to both of them. But that
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: darnay put out a hand and seized him, crying, no, no,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: what have you done? What have you done that you
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: should kneel to us? We know now what a struggle
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: you made of old We know now what you underwent
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: when you suspected my descent, and when you knew it.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: We know now the natural antipathy you strove against and
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: conquered for her dear sake. We thank you with all
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: our hearts and all our love and duty. Heaven be
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: with you. Her father's only answer was to draw his
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: hands through his white hair and wring them with a
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: shriek of anger. Wish it could not be otherwise, said
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: the prisoner. All things have worked together as they have
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: fallen out. It was the always vain endeavor to discharge
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: my poor mother's trust that first brought my fatal presents
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: near you. Good could never come of such evil. A
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: Be comforted, and forgive me, Heaven bless you. As he
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: was drawn away, his wife released him and stood looking
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: after him, with her hands touching one another, in the
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: attitude of prayer, and with a radiant look upon her face,
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: in which there was even a comforting smile. As he
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: went out at the prisoner's door, she turned, laid her
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: head lovingly on her father's breast, tried to speak to him,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: and fell at his feet zero six eight six m original. Then,
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: issuing from the obscure corner from which he had never moved,
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: Sydney Carton came and took her up. Only her father
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: and mister Lorry were with her. His arm trembled as
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: it raised her and supported her head. Yet there was
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: an air about him that was not all of pity,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: that had a flush of pride in it. Shall I
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: take her to a coach, I shall never feel her weight.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: He carried her lightly to the door and laid her
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: tenderly down in a coach. Her father and their old
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: friend got into it, and he took his seat beside
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: the driver. When they arrived at the gateway, where he
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: had paused in the dark not many hours before, to
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: picture to himself on which of the rough stones of
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: the street her feet had trodden, he lifted her again
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: and carried her up the staircase to their rooms. There
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: he laid her down on a couch, where her child
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: and Miss Pross wept over her. Don't recall her to herself,
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: he said softly to the latter. She is better, so
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: don't revive her to consciousness while she only faints. Oh Carton, Carton,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: Dear Carton, cried little Lucie, springing up and throwing her
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: arms passionately round him in a burst of grief. Now
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: that you have come, I think you will do something
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: to help mamma, something to save Papa. Oh look at her,
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: dear Carton, Can you, of all the people who love her,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: bear to see her? So he bent over the child
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: and laid her blooming cheek against his face. He put
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: her gently from him and looked at her unconscious mother.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: Before I go, he said, and paused, I may kiss her.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: The child who was nearest to him, told them afterwards,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: and told her grandchildren, when she was a handsome old lady,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: that she heard him say, a life you love. When
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: he had gone out into the next room, he turned
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: suddenly on mister Laurie and her father, who were following,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: and said, to the latter, you had great influence. But yesterday,
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: doctor Manette, let it at least be tried. These judges
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: and all the men in power are very friendly to you,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: and very recognizant of your services, are they not? Nothing
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: connected with Charles was concealed from me. I had the
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: strongest assurances that I should save him, and I did.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: He returned the answer in great trouble, and very slowly
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: try them again. The hours between this and to morrow
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: afternoon are few and short. But try, I intend to try.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: I will not rest a moment. That's well. I have
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: known such energy as yours do great things before now,
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: though never he added, with a smile and a sigh,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: together such great things as this. But try of little
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: worth as life is when we misuse it. It is
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: if it were not. I will go, said doctor Manette
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: to the prosecutor in the President strait. And I will
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: go to others whom it is better not to name.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: I will write too, And but stay. There is a
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: sen celebration in the streets, and no one will be
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: accessible until dark. That's true. Well, it is a forlorn
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: being delayed till dark. I should like to know how
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: you speed, though, mind I expect nothing. When are you
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: likely to have seen these dread powers, doctor Manette? Immediately
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: after dark. I should hope within an hour or two
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: from this It will be dark soon after four. Let
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: us stretch the hour or two. If I go to
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: mister Lorry's at nine, shall I hear what you have done,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: either from our friend or from yourself? Yes? May you prosper.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: Mister Lorry followed Sydney to the outer door, and touching
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: him on the shoulder as he was going away, caused
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: him to turn. I have no hope, said mister Laurie,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: in a low and sorrowful whisper. Nor have I if
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: any one of these men, or all of these men,
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: were disposed to spare him, which is a large supposition,
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: for what is his life or any man's to them?
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: I doubt if they durst spare him after the demonstration
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: in the court, and so do I. I heard the
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: fall of the axe in that sound, Mister Lorrie leaned
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: his arm upon the door post and bowed his face
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: upon it. Don't despond said Carton very gently. Don't grieve.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: I encouraged Doctor Manette in this idea because I felt
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: that it might one day be consolatory to her. Otherwise
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: she might think his life was wantonly thrown away or wasted,
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: and that might trouble her. Yes, yes, yes, returned mister Lorry,
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: drying his eyes. You are right, but he will perish.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: There is no real hope. Yes, he will perish. There
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: is no real hope, echoed Carton, and walked with a
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: settled step downstairs. Chapter twelve, Darkness, Sidney Carton paused in
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: the street, not quite decided where to go. At Tellson's
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: banking house. At nine, he said, with a musing face,
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: Shall I do well in the meantime to show myself?
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: I think so it is best that these people should
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: know there is such a man as I hear. It
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: is a sound precaution, and may be a necessary preparation.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: But care, care, care, Let me think it out. Checking
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: his steps which had begun to tend towards an object,
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: he took a turn or two in the already darkening
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: street and traced the thought in his mind to its
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: possible consequences. His first impression was confirmed. It is best,
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: he said, finally resolved, that these people should know there
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: is such a man as I hear, and he turned
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: his face towards Saint Antoine. Defarge had described himself that
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: day as the keeper of a wine shop in the
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Saint Antoine suburb. It was not difficult for one who
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: knew the city well to find his house without asking
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: any question. Having ascertained its situation, Carton came out of
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: those closer streets again and dined at a place of refreshment,
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: and fell sound asleep after dinner. For the first time
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: in many years, he had no strong drink. Since last
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: night he had taken nothing but a little light, thin wine,
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: and last night he had dropped the brandy slowly down
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: on mister Laurie's hearth like a man who had done
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: with it. It was as late as seven o'clock when
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: he awoke, refreshed, and went out into the streets again.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: As he passed along towards Saint Antoine, he stopped at
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: a shop window where there was a mirror and slightly
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: altered the disordered arrangement of his loose cravat and his
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: coat collar and his wild hair. This done, he went
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: on direct to Defarge's and went in there. Happened to
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: be no customer in the shop but Jock three, of
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: the restless fingers and the croaking voice. This man, whom
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: he had seen upon the jury, stood drinking at the
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: little counter in conversation with the defarges man and wife.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: The Vengeance assisted in the conversation like a regular member
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: of the establishment. As Carton walked in, took his seat
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: and asked, in very indifferent French for a small measure
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: of wine. Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: and then a keener, and then a keener, and then
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: advanced to him herself and asked him what it was
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: he had ordered. He repeated what he had already said English,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: asked Madame Defarge inquisitively, raising her dark eyebrows. After looking
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: at her as if the sound of even a single
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: French word were slow to express itself to him, he answered,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: in his former strong foreign accent, Yes, madam, Yes, I
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: am English. Madame Defarge returned to her counter to get
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: the wine, and as he took up a Jacobin journal
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: and famed to pore over it, puzzling out its meaning,
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: he heard her say, I swear to you like Evremond.
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: Defarge brought him the wine and gave him good evening.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: How good evening, Oh good evening, citizen, filling his glass,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: Ah and good wine I drink to the republic. Defarge
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: went back to the counter and said, certainly a little
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: like Madame sternly retorted, I tell you a good deal
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: like Jacques three pacifically remarked, he is so much in
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: your mind, see you, madam, The amiable Vengeance added with
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: a laugh, Yes, my faith, and you are looking forward
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: with so much pleasure to seeing him once more to morrow.
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: Carton followed the lines and words of his paper with
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: a slow forefinger and with a studious and absorbed face.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: They were all leaning their arms on the counter close together,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: speaking low after a silence of a few moments, during
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: which they all looked towards him, without disturbing his outward
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: attention from the jacob An editor, they resumed their conversation.
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: It is true what madam says, observed Jock three. Why stop?
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: There is great force in that. Why stop? Well, well, reason, Defarge,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: But one must stop somewhere. After all. The question is
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: still ware at extermination, said Madam magnificent, croaked Jock three.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: The vengeance also highly approved. Extermination is good doctrine, my wife,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: said Defarge, rather troubled. In general, I say nothing against it.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: But this doctor has suffered much. You have seen him
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: to day. You have observed his face when the paper
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: was read. I have observed his face, repeated Madam, contemptuously
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: and angrily. Yes, I have observed his face. I have
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: observed his face to be not the face of a
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: true friend of the republic. Let him take care of
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: his face. And you have observed, my wife, said Defarge,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: in a deprecatory manner, the anguish of his daughter, which
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: must be a dreadful anguish to him. I have observed
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: his daughter, repeated Madam. Yes, I have observed his daughter
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: more times than one. I have observed her to day,
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: and I have observed her other days. I have observed
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: her in the court, and I have observed her in
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: the street by the prison. Let me but lift my finger.
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: She seemed to raise it. The listener's eyes were always
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: on his paper, and to let it fall with a
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: rattle on the ledge before her, as if the axe
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: had dropped. The scitizeness is superb croaked the jury man.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: She is an angel, said the vengeance, and embraced her
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: as to thee pursued Madam, implacably, addressing her husband. If
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: it depended on thee, which happily it does not, thou
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: wouldst rescue this man even now, no protested Defarge, not
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: if to lift this glass would do it. But I
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: would leave the matter there. I say, stop there. See
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: you then, Jacques, said Madame. Defarge wrathfully, and see you
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: to my little vengeance. See you both listen for other
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: crimes as tyrants and oppressors. I have this race a
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: Ask my husband, is that so? It is? So? Assented?
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: Defarge without being asked. In the beginning of the great days,
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: when the Bastille falls he finds this paper of to day,
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: and he brings it home, and in the middle of
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: the night, when this place is clear and shut, we
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: read it here on this spot by the light of
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: this lamp. Ask him, is that so it is so assented? Defarge?
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: That night, I tell him, when the paper is read through,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: and the lamp is burnt out, and the day is
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: gleaming in above those shutters and between those iron bars,
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: that I have now a secret to communicate. Ask him,
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: is that so it is so assented? Defarge? Again, I
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: communicate to him that secret. I smite this bosom with
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: these two hands, as I smite it now, and I
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: tell him, Defarge, I was brought up among the fishermen
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: of the sea shore, and that peasant family so injured
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: by the two Evremond brothers, as that Bastille paper describes,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: is my family, Defarge. That sister of the mortally wounded
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: boy upon the ground was my sister. That husband was
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: my sister's husband, That unborn child was their child, That
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: brother was my brother, that father was my father. Those
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: dead are my dead, and that summons to answer for
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: those things descends to me. Ask him, is that so
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: it is so assented? Defarge once more. Then tell wind
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: and fire where to stop. Return madam, but don't tell me.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: Both her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: nature of her wrath. The listener could feel how white
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: she was without seeing her, and both highly commended it. Defarge,
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: a weak minority, interposed a few words for the memory
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: of the compassionate wife of the marquis, but only elicited
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: from his own wife or repetition of her last reply.
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: Tell the wind and the fire where to stop, not me.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: Customers entered and the group was broken up. The English
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: customer paid for what he had had, perplexedly counted his change,
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: and asked as a stranger, to be directed towards the
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: National Palace. Madame Defarge took him to the door and
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: put her arm on his in pointing out the road.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: The English customer was not without his reflections then that
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: it might be a good deed to seize that arm,
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: lift it and strike under it sharp and deep. But
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: he went his way and was soon swallowed up in
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: the shadow of the prison wall. At the appointed hour,
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: he emerged from it to present himself in mister Laurie's
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: room again, where he found the old gentleman walking to
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: and fro in restless anxiety. He said he had been
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: with Lucy until just now, and had only left her
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes to come and keep his appointment.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: Her father had not been seen since he quitted the
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: banking house towards four o'clock. She had some faint hopes
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: that his mediation might save Charles, but they were very slight.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: He had been more than five hours gone. Where could
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: he be? Mister Laurie waited until ten, but doctor Manette
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: not returning, and he being unwilling to leave Lucy any longer,
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: it was arranged that he should go back to her
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: and come to the banking house again at midnight. In
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: the meanwhile, Cardon would wait alone by the fire for
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: the doctor. He waited and waited, and the clock struck twelve,
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: but doctor Manette did not come back. Mister Lorry returned
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: and found no tidings of him, and brought none. Where
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: could he be? They were discussing this question, and were
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: almost building up some weeks ructure of hope on his
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: prolonged absence. When they heard him on the stairs. The
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: instant he entered the room, it was plain that all
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: was lost. Whether he had really been to any one,
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: or whether he had been all that time traversing the
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: streets was never known. As he stood staring at them,
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: they asked him no question, for his face told them everything.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: I cannot find it, said he, and I must have it.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: Where is it? His head and throat were bare, and
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: as he spoke with a helpless look, straying all around,
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: he took his coat off and let it drop on
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: the floor. Where is my bench? I have been looking
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: everywhere for my bench, and I can't find it. What
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: have they done with my work? Time presses? I must
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: finish those shoes. They looked at one another, and their
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: hearts died within them. Come, come, said he in a whimpering,
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: miserable way. Let me get to work, Give me my work.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: Receiving no answer, he tore his hair and beat his
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: feet upon the ground like a distracted child. Don't torture
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: a poor, forlorn wretch, he implored them with a dreadful cry,
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: But give me my work. What is to become of
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: us if those shoes are not done? To night lost,
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: utterly lost. It was so clearly beyond hope to reason
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: with him or try to restore him, that as if
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: by agreement, they each put a hand upon his shoulder
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: and soothed him to sit down before the fire, with
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: a promise that he should have his work presently. He
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: sank into the chair and brooded over the embers and
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: shed tears, as if all that had happened since the
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: garret time were a momentary fancy or a dream. Mister
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: Lorry saw him shrink into the exact figure that Defarge
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: had had in keeping. Affected and impressed with terror as
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: they both were by this spectacle of ruin, it was
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: not a time to yield to such emotions. His lonely daughter,
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: bereft of her final hope and reliance, appealed to them
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: both too strongly. Again, as if by agreement, they looked
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: at one another with one meaning in their faces. Carton
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: was the first to speak, the last chance is gone.
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: It was not much. Yes, he had better be taken
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: to her. But before you go, will you for a
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: moment steadily attend to me. Don't ask me why I
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: make the stipulations I am going to make and exact
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: the promise I am going to exact. I have a reason,
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: a good one. I do not doubt it, answered mister Lorry,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: say on. The figure in the chair between them was
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: all the time monotonously rocking itself to and fro and moaning.
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: They spoke in such a tone as they would have
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: used if they had been watching by a sick bed
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: in the night. Carton stooped to pick up the coat,
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: which lay almost entangling his feet. As he did so,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: a small case in which the doctor was accustomed to
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: carry the lists of his day's duties, fell lightly on
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: the floor. Carton took it up, and there was a
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: folded paper in it. We should look at this, he said.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: Mister Lorry nodded his consent. He opened it and exclaimed,
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: Thank God, what is it? Asked mister Lorry eagerly a moment,
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: Let me speak of it in its place. First, he
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: put his hand in his coat and took another paper
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: from it. That is the certificate which enables me to
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: pass out of this city. Look at it, you see,
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: Sidney Carton, an englishman. Mister Lorry held it open in
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: his hand, gazing in his earnest face. Keep it for
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: me until tomorrow. I shall see him tomorrow, you remember,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: and I had better not take it into the prison.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: Why not? I don't know. I prefer not to do so.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: Now take this paper that doctor Manette has carried about him.
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: and her child at any time to pass the barrier
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: and the frontier. You see. Yes, perhaps he obtained it
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: as his last and utmost precaution against evil yesterday when
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: is it dated? But no matter, don't stay to look.
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: Put it up carefully with mine and your own. Now
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: observe I never doubted until within this hour or two
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: that he had or could have, such a paper. It
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: is good until recalled, but it may be soon recalled,
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: and I have reason to think will be. They are
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: not in danger, They are in great danger. They are
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: in danger of denunciation by Madame Defarge. I know it
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: from her own lips. I have overheard words of that
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: woman's tonight which have presented their danger to me in
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: strong colors. I have lost no time, and since then
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: I have seen the spy, he confirms me. He knows
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: that a wood sawyer living by the prison wall is
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: under the control of the Defarges and has been rehearsed
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: by Madame Defarge. As to his having seen her. He
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: never mentioned Lucy's name, making signs and signals to prisoners.
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: It is easy to foresee that the pretense will be
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: the common one, a prison plot, and that it will
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: involve her life, and perhaps her child's, and perhaps her father's,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: for both have been seen with her at that place.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: Don't look so horrified. You will save them all Heaven grant,
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: I may carton, But how I am going to tell
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: you how it will depend on you, and it could
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: depend on no better man. This new denunciation will certainly
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: not take place until after tomorrow, probably not until two
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: or three days afterwards, more probably a week afterwards. You know,
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: it is a capital crime to mourn for or sympathize
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: with a victim of the guillotine. She and her father
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: would unquestionably be guilty of this crime. And this woman,
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: the inveteracy of whose pursuit cannot be described, would wait
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: to add that strength to her case and make herself
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: doubly sure. You follow me so attentively and with so
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: much confidence in what you say, that for the moment
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: I lose sight touching the back of the doctor's chair.
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: Even of this distress, you have money and can buy
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: the means of traveling to the sea coast as quickly
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: as the journey can be made. Your preparations have been
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: completed for some days to return to England early tomorrow.
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: Have your horses ready so that they may be in
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: starting trim at two o'clock in the afternoon. It shall
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: be done. His manner was so fervent and inspiring that
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: mister Lorry caught the flame and was as quick as youth.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: You are a noble heart, did I say we could
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: depend upon no better man. Tell her to night what
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: you know of her danger as involving her child and
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: her father. Dwell upon that, for she would lay her
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: own had beside her husband's cheerfully. He faltered for an instant,
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: then went on as before, for the sake of her
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: child and her father, press upon her the necessity of
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: leaving Paris with them, and you at that hour tell
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: her that it was her husband's last arrangement. Tell her
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: that more depends upon it than she dare believe or hope.
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: You think that her father, even in this sad state,
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: will submit himself to her, do you not? I am
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: sure of it? I thought so quietly and steadily. Have
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: all these arrangements made in the courtyard here, even to
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: the taking of your own seat in the carriage. The
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: moment I come to you, take me in and drive away.
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: I understand that I wait for you under all circumstances.
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: You have my certificate in your hand with the rest
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: you know, and will reserve my place. Wait for nothing
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: but to have my place occupied, and then for England. Why, then,
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: said mister Lorry, grasping his eager but so firm and
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: steady hand. It does not all depend on one old man,
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: but I shall have a young and ardent man at
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: my side, by the help of Heaven. You shall promise
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: me solemnly that nothing will influence you to alter the
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: course on which we now stand, pledged to one another.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: Nothing Carton, remember these words tomorrow change the course or
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: delay in it for any reason, and no life can
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: possibly be saved, and many lives must inevitably be sacrificed.
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: I will remember them. I hope to do my part faithfully,
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: and I hope to do mine now. Good Bye. Though
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: he said it with a grave smile of earnestness, and
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: though he even put the old man's hand to his lips,
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: he did not part from him. Then he helped him
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: so far to arouse the rocking figure before the dying embers,
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: as to get a cloak and hat put upon it,
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: and to tempt it forth to find where the bench
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: and work were hidden that it still moaningly besought to have.
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: He locked on the other side of it, and protected
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: it to the courtyard of the house where the afflicted
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: heart so happy in the memorable time, when he had
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: revealed his own desolate heart to it, outwatched the awful night.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: He entered the courtyard and remained there for a few
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: moments alone, looking up at the light in the window
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: of her room. Before he went away, he breathed a
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: blessing towards it, and a farewell. Chapter thirteen fifty two.
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: the day awaited their fate. They were in number, as
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: the weeks of the year fifty two were to roll
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: that afternoon on the life tide of the city to
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: the boundless, everlasting sea. Before their cells were quit of them,
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: new occupants were appointed. Before their blood ran into the
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: blood spilled yesterday, The blood that was to mingle with
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: theirs tomorrow was already set apart. Two score and twelve
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: were told off from the farmer general of seventy, whose
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: riches could not by his life, to the seamstress of twenty,
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: whose poverty and obscurity could not save her. Physical diseases
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: engendered in the vices and neglects of men will seize
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: on victims of all degrees, and the frightful moral disorder
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference smote
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: equally without distinction. Charles Darnay, alone in a cell, had
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: sustained himself with no flattering delusion since he came to
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: it from the tribunal. In every line of the narrative
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: he had heard, he had heard his condemnation. He had
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: fully comprehended that no personal influence could possibly save him,
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: that he was virtually sentenced by the millions, and that
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: units could avail him nothing. Nevertheless, it was not easy,
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: with the face of his beloved wife fresh before him,
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: to compose his mind to what it must bear. His
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: hold on life was strong, and it was very very
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: hard to loosen by gradual efforts and degrees unclosed a
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: little here, it clenched the tighter there. And when he
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: brought his strength to bear on that hand, and it yielded.
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: This was closed again. There was a hurry too in
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: all his thoughts, a turbulent and heated working of his
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: heart that contended against resignation. If for a moment he
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: did feel resigned, then his wife and child, who had
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: to live after him, seemed to protest, and to make
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: it a selfish thing. But all this was at first.
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: Before long, the consideration that there was no disgrace in
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: the fate he must meet, and that numbers went the
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: same road wrongfully and trod it firmly every day, sprang
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: up to stimulate him. Next followed the thought that much
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: of the future peace of mind enjoyable by the dear
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: ones depended on his quiet fortitude. So by degrees he
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: calmed into the better state, when he could raise his
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: thoughts much higher and draw comfort down before it had
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: sat in dark on the night of his condemnation, he
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: had traveled thus far on his last way. Being allowed
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: to purchase the means of writing, and alight, he sat
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: down to write until such time as the prison lamps
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: should be extinguished. He wrote a long letter to Lucy,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: showing her that he had known nothing of her father's
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: imprisonment until he had heard of it from herself, and
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: that he had been as ignorant as she of his
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: father's and uncle's responsibility for that misery. Until the paper
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: had been read. He had already explained to her that
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: his concealment from herself of the name he had relinquished
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: was the one condition fully intelligible now that her father
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: had attached to their betrothal, and was the one promise
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: he had still exacted on the morning of their marriage.
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: He entreated her, for her father's sake, never to seek
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: to know whether her father had become oblivious of the
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: existence of the paper, or had had it recalled to
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: him for the moment or for good by the story
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: of the tower on that old Sunday under the dear
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: old plane tree in the garden. If he had preserved
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: any definite remembrance of it, there could be no doubt
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: that he had supposed it destroyed with the bastille, when
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: he had found no mention of it among the relics
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: of prisoners which the populace had discovered there, and which
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: had been described to all the world. He besought her,
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: though he added that he knew it was needless to
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: console her father by impressing him through every tender means
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: she could think of, with the truth that he had
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: done nothing for which he could justly reproach himself, but
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: had uniformly forgotten himself for their joint sakes, next to
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: her preservation of his own last grateful love and blessing,
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: and her overcoming of her sorrow, to devote herself to
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: their dear child, he adjured her, as they would meet
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: in heaven, to comfort her father. To her father himself,
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: he wrote in the same strain. But he told her
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: father that he expressly confided his wife and child to
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: his care. And he told him this very strongly, with
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: the hope of rousing him from any despondency or dangerous
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: retrospect towards which he foresaw he might be tending. To
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: mister Lorry, he commended them all and explained his worldly
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: affairs that done, with many added sentences of grateful friendship
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: and warmantytachment, all was done. He never thought of Carton.
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: His mind was so full of the others that he
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: never once thought of him. He had time to finish
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: these letters before the lights were put out. When he
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: lay down on his straw bed, he thought he had
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: done with this world. But it beckoned him back in
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: his sleep and showed itself in shining forms, free and happy,
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: back in the old house in Soho, though it had
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: nothing in it like the real house, unaccountably released in
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: light of heart, he was with Lucy again, and she
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: told him it was all a dream, and he had
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: never gone away. A pause of forgetfulness, and then he
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: had even suffered, and had come back to her, dead
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: and at peace, And yet there was no difference in him.
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: Another pause of oblivion, and he awoke in the somber morning,
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: unconscious where he was or what had happened, until it
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: flashed upon his mind, this is the day of my death.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: Thus had he come through the hours to the day
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: when the fifty two heads we were to fall. And
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: now while he was composed and hoped that he could
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: meet the end with quiet heroism, a new action began
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: in his waking thoughts, which was very difficult to master.
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: He had never seen the instrument that was to terminate
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: his life, how high it was from the ground, how
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: many steps it had, where he would be stood, how
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: he would be touched, whether the touching hands would be
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: dyed red, which way his face would be turned, whether
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: he would be the first or might be the last.
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: These and many similar questions, in no wise directed by
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: his will, obtruded themselves over and over again countless times.
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: Neither were they connected with fear. He was conscious of
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: no fear. Rather, they originated in a strange, besetting desire
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: to know what to do when the time came, a
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: it referred, a wondering that was more like the wondering
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: of some other spirit within his than his own. The
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: hours went on as he walked to and fro, and
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: the clock struck the numbers he would never hear again.
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: Nine gone forever, ten gone forever, eleven gone forever, twelve
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: coming on to pass away. After a hard contest with
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: that eccentric action of thought which had last perplexed him,
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: he had got the better of it. He walked up
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: and down, softly, repeating their names to himself. The worst
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: of the strife was over. He could walk up and down,
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: free from distracting fancies, praying for himself and for them.
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: Twelve gone forever. He had been apprized that the final
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: hour was three, and he knew he would be summoned
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: some time earlier, inasmuch as the tumbrels jolted heavily and
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: slowly through the streets. Therefore he resolved to keep two
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: before his mind as the hour, and so to strengthen
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: himself in the interval, that he might be able after
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: that time to strengthen others. Walking regularly to and fro
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: with his arms folded on his breast, a very different
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: man from the risoner who had walked to and fro
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: at la force, he heard one struck away from him
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: without surprise. The hour had measured like most other hours, devoutly.
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: Thankful to Heaven for his recovered self possession, he thought,
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: there is but another now, and turned to walk again.
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: Footsteps in the stone passage. Outside the door he stopped,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: the key was put in the lock, and turned. Before
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: the door was opened, or as it opened, a man said,
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: in a low voice in English, he has never seen
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: me here. I have kept out of his way. Go
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: you in alone. I wait near lose no time. The
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: door was quickly opened and closed, and there stood before him,
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: face to face, quiet intent upon him, with the light
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: of a smile on his features and a cautionary finger
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: on his lip Sydney Carton. There was something so bright
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: and remarkable in his look that for the first moment
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: the prisoner misdoubted him to be an apparition of his
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: own imagining. But he spoke, and it was his voice.
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: He took the prisoner's hand, and it was his real grasp.
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: Of all the people upon earth, you least expected to
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: see me, he said, I could not believe it to
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: be you. I can scarcely believe it now. You are not.
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: The apprehension came suddenly into his mind. A prisoner. No,
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: I am accidentally possessed of a power over one of
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: the keepers here, and in virtue of it, I stand
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: before you. I come from her, your wife. Dear darnay,
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: The prisoner wrung his hand. I bring you a request
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: from her. What is it? A most earnest pressing, an
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: emphatic entreaty addressed to you in the most pathetic tones
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: of the voice, so dear to you that you well remember.
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: The prisoner turned his face partly aside. You have no
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: time to ask me why I bring it or what
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: it means. I have no time to tell you. You
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: must comply with it. Take off those boots you wear
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: and draw on these of mine. There was a chair
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: against the wall of the cell behind the prisoner. Carton,
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: pressing forward, had already, with the speed of lightning, got
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 1: him down into it, and stood over him barefoot. Draw
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: on these boots of mine, Put your hands to them,
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: Put your will to them. Quick Carton, There is no
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: escaping from this place. It never can be done. You
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: will only die with me. It is madness. It would
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: be madness if I asked you to escape. But do
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: I when I ask you to pass out at that door,
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: tell me it is madness, and remain here. Change that
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: cravat for this of mine, that coat for this of mine.
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: While you do it, let me take this ribbon from
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: your hair and shake out your hair like this of mine.
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: and action that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: changes upon him. The prisoner was like a young child
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: in his hands. Carton, dear Carton, it is madness. It
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: cannot be accomplished, It never can be done. It has
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: been attempted and has always failed. I implore you not
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: to add your death to the bitterness of mine. Do
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: I ask you, my dear darnay, to pass the door
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: when I ask that refuse. There are pen and ink
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 1: and paper on this table. Is your hand steady enough
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: to write? It was when you came in. Steady it again,
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: and write what I shall dictate? Quick, friend, quick, Pressing
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: his hand to his bewildered head, Darnay sat down at
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: the table. Carton, with his right hand in his breast,
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: stood close beside him. Write exactly as I speak to whom?
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: Do I address it to no one? Carton still had
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: his hand in his breast. Do I date it? No?
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: The prisoner looked up at each question. Carton, standing over
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: him with his hand in his breast, looked down. If
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: you remember, said Carton, dictating the words that passed between
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: us long ago, you will readily comprehend this when you
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: see it. You do remember them? I know it is
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: not in your nature to forget them. He was drawing
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: his hand from his breast, the prisoner, chancing to look
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: up in his hurried wonder as he wrote. The hand
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: stopped closing upon something. Have you written forget them? Carton asked,
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: I have Is that a weapon in your hand? No?
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 1: I am not armed. What is it in your hand?
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: You shall know directly right on. There are but a
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: few words more, he dictated again, I am thankful that
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: the time has come when I can prove them that
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: I do so. Is no subject for regret or grief.
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: As he said these words with his eyes fixed on
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: the writer, his hand slowly and softly moved down close
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: to the writer's face. The pen dropped from Darnay's fingers
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: on the table, and he looked about him vacantly. What
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: vapor is that? He asked? Vapor something that crossed me?
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 1: I am conscious of nothing. There can be nothing here.
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: Take up the pen and finish. Hurry, hurry. As if
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: his memory were impaired or his faculties disordered, the prisoner
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: made an effort to rally his attention as he looked
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: at Carton with clouded eyes and with an altered manner
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: of breathing. Carton, his hand again in his breast, looked
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: steadily at him. Hurry, hurry. The prisoner bent over the
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: paper once more. If it had been otherwise, Carton's hand
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: was again watchfully and softly stealing down. I never should
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: have used the longer opportunity. If it had been otherwise,
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: the hand was at the prisoner's face. I should but
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: have had so much the more to answer for if
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: it had been otherwise. Carton looked at the pen and
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: saw it was trailing off into unintelligible signs. Carton's hand
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: moved back to his breast no more. The prisoner sprang
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: up with a reproachful look. But Carton's hand was close
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: and firm at his nostrils, and Carton's left arm caught
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: him round the waist. For a few seconds he faintly
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: struggled with the man who had come to lay down
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: his life for him. But within a minute or so
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: he was stretched insensible on the ground, quickly, but with
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: hands as true to the purpose as his heart was.
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: Carton dressed himself in the clothes the prisoner had laid aside,
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: combed back his hair and tied it with the ribbon
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: the prisoner had worn. Then he softly called enter, there,
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 1: come in, and the spy presented himself. You see, said Carton,
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: looking up, as he kneeled on one knee beside the
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: insensible figure putting the paper in the breast. Is your hazard,
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: very great, mister Carton, the spy answered, with a timid
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: snap of his fingers, My hazard is not that in
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: the thick of business here. If you are true to
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: the whole of your bargain, don't fear me. I will
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: be true to the death. You must be, mister Carton.
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: If the tale of fifty two is to be right,
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: being made right by you in that dress, I shall
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: have no fear. Have no fear. I shall soon be
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: out of the way of harming you, and the rest
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: will soon be far from here. Please God, now get
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: assistance and take me to the coach, you, said the
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: spy nervously. Him, man with whom I have exchanged you
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 1: go out at the gate by which you brought me in.
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: Of course I was weak and faint when you brought
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: me in, and I am fainter now you take me out.
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: The parting interview has overpowered me. Such a thing has
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 1: happened here often, and too often. Your life is in
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: your own hands. Quick call assistance. You swear not to
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: betray me, said the trembling spy as he paused for
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: a last moment. Man Man returned Carton, stamping his foot.
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: Have I sworn by no solemn vow already to go
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: through with this that you waste the precious moments? Now
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: take him yourself to the courtyard you know of, place
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: him yourself in the carriage, show him yourself to mister Lorry,
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: tell him yourself to give him no restorative but air,
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: and to remember my words of last night and his
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: promise of last night, and drive away. The spy withdrew,
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: and Carton seated himself at the table, resting his forehead
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: on his hands. The spy returned immediately with two men.
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: How then, said one of them, contemplating the fallen figure,
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: so afflicted to find that his friend has drawn a
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: prize in the lottery of Saint Guillotine, a good patriot,
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: said the other could hardly have been more afflicted if
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: the aristocrat had drawn a blank. They raised the unconscious figure,
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: placed it on a litter they had brought to the door,
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: and bent to carry it away. The time is short, evremonde,
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: said the spy, in a warning voice. I know it well,
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 1: answered Carton. Be careful of my friend, I entreat you,
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: and leave me. Come then, my children, said Barsad, lift
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: him and come away. The door closed, and Carton was
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: left alone, straining his powers of listening to the utmost.
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: He listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm.
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: There was none. Keys turned, doors clashed, footsteps passed along
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: distant passages. No cry was raised or hurry made that
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: seemed unusual. Breathing more freely in a little while, he
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: sat down at the table and listened again, until the
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: clock struck two sounds that he was not afraid of,
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: for he divined their meaning, then began to be audible.
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: Several doors were opened in succession, and find his own.
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: A jailer with a list in his hand, looked in,
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: merely saying, follow me, evremonde, And he followed into a
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: large dark room. At a distance. It was a dark
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 1: winter day, and what with the shadows within, and what
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: with the shadows without, he could but dimly discern the
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: others who were brought there to have their arms bound.
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 1: Some were standing, some seated, Some were lamenting and in
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: restless motion, But these were few. The great majority were
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: silent and still looking fixedly at the ground. As he
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: stood by the wall in a dim corner. While some
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: of the fifty two were brought in after him, one
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: man stopped in, passing to embrace him, as having a
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: knowledge of him. It thrilled him with a great dread
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: of discovery. But the man went on. A very few
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: moments after that, a young woman with a slight, girlish form,
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: a sweet, spare face in which there was no vestige
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: of color, and large, widely opened, patient eyes, rose from
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: the seat where he had observed her sitting, and came
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: to speak to him, Citizen Evremond, she said, touching him
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: with her cold hand, I am a poor little seamstress
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: who was with you in la force. He murmured for answer, true,
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: I forget what you were accused of plots, though the
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: just Heaven knows that I am innocent of any. Is
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 1: it likely who would think of plotting with a poor little,
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: weak creature like me? The forlorn smile with which she
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: said it so touched him that tears started from his eyes.
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: I am not afraid to die, Citizen Evremond, but I
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: have done nothing. I am not unwilling to die if
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: the Republic, which is to do so much good to
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 1: us poor, will profit by my death. But I do
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: not know how that can be, Citizen Evremond, such a poor,
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: weak little creature as the last thing on earth that
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 1: his heart was to warm and soften to. It warmed
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 1: and softened to this pitiable girl. I heard you were released,
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: Citizen Evremonde. I hoped it was true. It was, but
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: I was again taken and condemned. If I may ride
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: with you, Citizen Evremond, will you let me hold your hand.
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: I am not afraid, but I am little and weak,
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: and it will give me more courage. As the patient
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work worn,
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: hunger worn, young fingers and touched his lips. Are you
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 1: dying for him? She whispered, And his wife and child hush, yes,
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: oh you will let me hold your brave hand. Stranger, hush, yes,
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: my poor sister. To the last, the same shadows that
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: are falling on the prison are falling in that same
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: hour of the early afternoon, on the barrier, with the
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: crowd about it. When a coach going out of Paris
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: drives up to be examined. Who goes here? Whom have we?
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: Within papers? The papers are handed out and read Alexander Manette,
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: physician French? Which is he? This is he? This? Helpless
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: inarticulately murmuring wandering old man pointed out, apparently the citizen
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: doctor is not in his right mind. The revolution fever
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 1: will have been too much for him, greatly too much
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: for him. Ha, many suffer with it. Lucy his daughter French?
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: Which is she? This is she? Apparently it must be Lucy,
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: the wife of Evremond, Is it not? It is ha?
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: Evremond has an assignation elsewhere. Lucy her child English? This
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: is she? She? And no other? Kiss me child of Evremond.
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: Now thou hast kissed a good republic. Something new in
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: thy family? Remember it? Sidney Carton Advocate English? Which is he?
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: He lies here in this corner of the carriage. He
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: too is pointed out. Apparently the English Advocate is in
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: a swoon. It is hoped he will recover in the
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: fresher air. It is represented that he is not in
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: strong health and has separated sadly from a friend who
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 1: is under the displeasure of the republic. Is that all?
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: It is not a great deal that many are under
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: the displeasure of the republic and must look out at
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: the little window. Jarvis Lorie Banker English? Which is he?
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: I am he necessarily being the last? It is Jarvis Lorie,
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: who has replied to all the previous questions. It is
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: Jarvis Lorry, who has alighted and stands with his hand
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: on the coach door, replying to a group of officials.
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: They leisurely walk round the carriage and leisurely mount the
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: box to look at what little luggagey it carries on
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: the roof the country. People hanging about pressed nearer to
• 2:44:08
  Speaker 1: the coach doors and greedily stare in a little child
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: carried by its mother, as its short arm held out
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: for it that it may touch the wife of an
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: aristocrat who has gone to the guillotine. Behold your papers,
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 1: Jarvis Lorry, countersigned. One can depart, citizen, one can depart
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 1: forward my postilions, A good journey, I salute you, citizen's dot,
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: and the first danger past. These are again the words
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: of Jarvis Lorry, as he clasps his hands and looks upward.
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 1: There is terror in the carriage. There is weeping. There
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: is the heavy breathing of the insensible traveler. Are we
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: not going too slowly? Can they not be induced to
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: go faster? Asks Lucy, clinging to the old man. It
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 1: would seem like flight, my darling. I must not urge
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: them too much. It would rouse suspicion. Look back, look back,
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: and see if we are pursued. The road is clear,
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: my dearest, So far we are not pursued. Houses in
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings,
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: dye works, tanneries, and the like, open country avenues of
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 1: leafless trees. The hard, uneven pavement is under us, The soft,
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: deep mud is on either side. Sometimes we strike into
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: the skirting mud to avoid the stones that clatter us
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: and shake us. Sometimes we stick in ruts and sloughs. There.
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: The agony of our impatience is then so great that,
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: in our wild alarm and hurry, we are for getting
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: out and running, hiding, doing anything but stopping out of
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: the open country in again, among ruinous buildings, solitary farms,
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 1: dye works, tanneries, and the like, cottages in twos and threes,
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: these avenues of leafless trees. Have these men deceived us
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: and taken us back by another road? Is not this
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: the same place twice over? Thank heaven, No a village.
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: Look back, Look back and see if we are pursued.
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: Hush the posting house leisurely. Our four horses are taken
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: out leisurely. The coach stands in the little street, bereft
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: of horses, and with no likelihood upon it of ever
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: moving again. Leisurely, the new horses come into visible existence
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: one by one. Leisurely, the new postilions follow, sucking and
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 1: plaiting the lashes of their whips. Leisurely. The old postilions
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: count their money, make wrong additions, and arrive at dissatisfied results.
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 1: rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: fastest horses ever fold. At length, the new postilions are
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: in their saddles, and the old are left behind. We
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: are through the village, up the hill, and down the hill,
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 1: and on the low watery grounds. Suddenly the postilions exchange
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: speech with animated gesticulation, and the horses are pulled up
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 1: almost on their haunches. We are pursued ho within the
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: carriage there speak then, what is it? Asks mister Lorry,
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: looking out at window. How many did they say, I
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 1: do not understand you at the last post? How many
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: to the guillotine today? Fifty two? I said, so a
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: brave number, my fellow citizen here would have it forty two.
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: Ten more heads are worth having the guillotine, goes handsomely.
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: I love it. High forward, whoop. The night comes on dark,
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: he moves more. He is beginning to revive and to
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 1: speak intelligibly. He thinks they are still together. He asks
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: him by his name what he has in his hand. Oh,
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: pity us, kind Heaven, and help us. Look out, look out,
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: and see if we are pursued. The wind is rushing
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: night is in pursuit of us. But so far we
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: are pursued by nothing else. Chapter fourteen, The knitting done
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 1: in that same juncture of time, when the fifty two
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: awaited their fate, Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: the Vengeance and Jock three of the Revolutionary Jury. Not
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: in the wine shop did Madame Defarge confer with these ministers.
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: But in the shed of the wood sawyer burst a
• 2:48:45
  Speaker 1: mender of roads. The sawyer himself did not participate in
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: the conference, but abide it at a little distance, like
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: an outer satellite, who was not to speak until required,
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: or to offer an opinion until invited. But our Defarge
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: said three is undoubtedly a good Republican. Eh. There is
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: no better the voluble vengeance protested in her shrill notes
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: in France. Peace little vengeance, said Madame Defarge, laying her
• 2:49:14
  Speaker 1: hand with a slight frown on her lieutenant's lips. Hear
• 2:49:17
  Speaker 1: me speak. My husband, fellow citizen, is a good Republican
• 2:49:22
  Speaker 1: and a bold man. He has deserved well of the
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: republic and possesses its confidence. But my husband has his weaknesses,
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: and he is so weak as to relent towards this doctor.
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: It is a great pity, Croaked Shock three, dubiously shaking
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: his head with his cruel fingers at his hungry mouth.
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: It is not quite like a good citizen. It is
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: a thing to regret, see you, said Madam. I care
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 1: nothing for this doctor. I he may wear his head
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: or lose it for any interest I have in him.
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: It is all one to me. But the Evremond people
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: are to be exterminated, and the wife and child must
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: follow them. Husband and father. She has a fine head
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: for it, Croaked Shock three. I have seen blue eyes
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: and golden hair there, and they looked charming when Samson
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: held them up Ogre that he was. He spoke like
• 2:50:13
  Speaker 1: an epicure. Madame Defarge cast down her eyes and reflected
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: a little. The child also observed Jock three with a
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: meditative enjoyment of his words as golden hair and blue eyes,
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: and we seldom have a child there. It is a
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: pretty sight. In a word, said Madame Defarge, coming out
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: of her short abstraction. I cannot trust my husband in
• 2:50:38
  Speaker 1: this matter. Not only do I feel since last night
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: that I dare not confide to him the details of
• 2:50:44
  Speaker 1: my projects, but also I feel that if I delay,
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: there is danger of his giving warning, and then they
• 2:50:49
  Speaker 1: might escape. That must never be croaked. Shock three. No
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: one must escape. We have not half enough as it is.
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 1: We ought to have sick score a day. In a word,
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge went on, my husband has not my reason
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: for pursuing this family to annihilation, and I have not
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: his reason for regarding this doctor with any sensibility. I
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: must act for myself. Therefore, come hither, little citizen. The
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 1: wood sawyer, who held her in the respect and himself
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: in the submission of mortal fear, advanced with his hand
• 2:51:23
  Speaker 1: to his red cap, touching those signals. Little citizen, said
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge sternly that she made to the prisoners. You
• 2:51:31
  Speaker 1: are ready to bear witness to them this very day.
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: I I why not, cried the sawyer every day in
• 2:51:40
  Speaker 1: all weathers, from two to four, always signaling, sometimes with
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: the little one, sometimes without. I know what I know,
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 1: I have seen with my eyes. He made all manner
• 2:51:51
  Speaker 1: of gestures while he spoke, as if an incidental imitation
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 1: of some few of the great diversity of signals that
• 2:51:57
  Speaker 1: he had never seen. Clearly plots, said Jock three. Transparently.
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: There is no doubt of the jury, inquired Madame Defarge,
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: letting her eyes turn to him with a gloomy smile.
• 2:52:10
  Speaker 1: Rely upon the patriotic jury. Dear sitizeness, I answer for
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: my fellow jurymen. Now let me see, said Madame Defarge,
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: pondering again yet once more? Can I spare this doctor
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 1: to my husband? I have no feeling either way? Can
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: I spare him? He would count as one head, observed
• 2:52:34
  Speaker 1: Jaques three, in a low voice. We really have not
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: heads enough. It would be a pity. I think he
• 2:52:41
  Speaker 1: was signaling with her when I saw her, argued Madame Defarge.
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: I cannot speak of one without the other, and I
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 1: must not be silent and trust the case wholly to
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 1: him this little citizen here, for I am not a
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: bad witness. The Vengeance and Jacques three vied with each
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: other in their fervent protestations that she was the most
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: admirable and marvelous of witnesses. The little citizen, not to
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 1: be outdone, declared her to be a celestial witness. He
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: must take his chance, said Madame Defarge. No I cannot
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 1: spare him. You are engaged at three o'clock. You are
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 1: going to see the batch of to day executed. Dot you.
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: The question was addressed to the wood sawyer, who hurriedly
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: replied in the affirmative, seizing the occasion to add that
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 1: he was the most ardent of republicans, and that he
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 1: would be, in effect the most desolate of republicans if
• 2:53:33
  Speaker 1: anything prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: afternoon pipe. In the contemplation of the droll National barber.
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: He was so very demonstrative herein that he might have
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 1: been suspected, perhaps was by the dark eyes that looked
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: contemptuously at him out of Madame Defarge's head, of having
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: his small individual fears for his own personal safety every
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: hour in the day, I said Madame am equally engaged
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: at the same place. After it is over, say at
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: eight tonight, come you to me in Saint Antoine, and
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: we will give information against these people at my section.
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 1: The wood sawyer said he would be proud and flattered
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: to attend the scitiseness. The scitizeness looking at him. He
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: became embarrassed, evaded her glance as a small dog would
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: have done, retreated among his wood, and hid his confusion
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: over the handle of his saw. Madame Defarge beckoned the
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: jury man and the Vengeance a little nearer to the door,
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: and there expounded her further views to them. Thus she
• 2:54:30
  Speaker 1: will now be at home, awaiting the moment of his death.
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: She will be mourning and grieving. She will be in
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: a state of mind to impeach the justice of the Republic.
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: She will be full of sympathy with its enemies. I
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: will go to her. What an admirable woman, What an
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: adorable woman, exclaimed Jacques three rapturously. Ah my cherished, cried
• 2:54:55
  Speaker 1: the Vengeance and embraced her. Take you my knitting, said
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge, placing it in her lieutenant's hands, and have
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: it ready for me in my usual seat. Keep me
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: my usual chair. Go you there straight, for there will
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: probably be a greater concourse than usual to day. I
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: willingly obey the orders of my chief, said the Vengeance,
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: with alacrity and kissing her cheek. You will not be late.
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: I shall be there before the commencement, and before the
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 1: tumbrels arrive. Be sure you are there, my soul, said
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: the Vengeance, calling after her, for she had already turned
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: into the street before the tumbrels arrive. Madame Defarge slightly
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: waved her hand to imply that she heard and might
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: be relied upon to arrive in good time, and so
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 1: went through the mud and round the corner of the
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: prison wall. The Vengeance and the jury man, looking after
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 1: her as she walked away, were highly appreciative of her
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: fine figure and her superb moral endowments. There were many
• 2:55:57
  Speaker 1: women at that time upon whom the time laid a dreadful,
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: disfiguring hand. But there was not one among them more
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: to be dreaded than this ruthless woman, now taking her
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: way along the streets, of a strong and fearless character,
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 1: of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 1: an instinctive recognition of those qualities. The troubled time would
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: have heaved her up under any circumstances, but imbued from
• 2:56:28
  Speaker 1: her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong and an
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: inveterate hatred of a class opportunity, had developed her into
• 2:56:35
  Speaker 1: a tigris. She was absolutely without pity. If she had
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 1: ever had the virtue in her, it had quite gone
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: out of her. It was nothing to her that an
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers.
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 1: She saw not him but them. It was nothing to
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: her that his wife was to be made a widow
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 1: and his daughter an orphan. That was insufficient punishment, because
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: such had no right to live. To appeal to her
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: was made hopeless by her having no sense of pity,
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: even for herself. If she had been laid low in
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: the streets in any of the many encounters in which
• 2:57:13
  Speaker 1: she had been engaged, she would not have pitied herself.
• 2:57:16
  Speaker 1: Nor if she had been ordered to the axe tomorrow,
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 1: would she have gone to it with any softer feeling
• 2:57:22
  Speaker 1: than a fierce desire to change places with the man
• 2:57:25
  Speaker 1: who sent her there such a harp. Madame Defarge carried
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 1: under her rough robe, carelessly worn. It was a becoming
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: robe enough in a certain weird way, and her dark
• 2:57:36
  Speaker 1: hair looked rich under her coarse red cap. Lying hidden
• 2:57:40
  Speaker 1: in her bosom was a loaded pistol. Lying hidden at
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: her waist was a sharpened dagger. Thus accoutered and walking
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 1: with the confident tread of such a character, and with
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 1: the supple freedom of a woman who had habitually walked
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: in her girlhood, barefoot and bare legged on the brown
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: Sea sand, Madame Defarge took her way along the streets. Now,
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 1: when the journey of the traveling coach, at that very moment,
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 1: waiting for the completion of its load, had been planned
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: out last night, the difficulty of taking Miss Pross in
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: it had much engaged mister Lorry's attention. It was not
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 1: merely desirable to avoid overloading the coach, but it was
• 2:58:19
  Speaker 1: of the highest importance that the time occupied in examining
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: it and its passengers should be reduced to the utmost,
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: since their escape might depend on the saving of only
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 1: a few seconds here and there. Finally, he had proposed,
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: after anxious consideration, that Miss Pross and Jerry, who were
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 1: at liberty to leave the city, should leave it at
• 2:58:39
  Speaker 1: three o'clock in the lightest wheeled conveyance known to that period.
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: Unencumbered with luggage, they would soon overtake the coach, and
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: passing it and preceding it on the road, would order
• 2:58:50
  Speaker 1: its horses in advance, and greatly facilitate its progress during
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: the precious hours of the night, when delay was the
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: most to be dreaded. Seeing in this arrangement the hope
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: hailed it with joy. She and Jerry had beheld the
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 1: coach start had known who it was that Solomon brought,
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: had passed some ten minutes in tortures of suspense, and
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: were now concluding their arrangements to follow the coach, even
• 2:59:16
  Speaker 1: as Madame Defarge, taking her way through the streets, now
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: drew nearer and nearer to the else deserted lodging in
• 2:59:23
  Speaker 1: which they held their consultation. Now, what do you think,
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher, said Miss Pross, whose agitation was so great
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 1: that she could hardly speak or stand or move or live?
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: What do you think of our not starting from this
• 2:59:37
  Speaker 1: courtyard another carriage having already gone from here to day?
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: It might awaken suspicion. My opinion, miss returned mister Cruncher,
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: is as you're right. Likewise what I'll stand by you
• 2:59:51
  Speaker 1: right or wrong. I am so distracted with fear and
• 2:59:54
  Speaker 1: hope for our precious creatures, said Miss Pross, wildly crying
• 2:59:59
  Speaker 1: that I am in cape of forming any plan? Are
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: you capable of forming any plan? My dear good mister Cruncher.
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 1: Respect in a future spear O life, Miss return Mister Cruncher,
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: I hope so respect in any present use O this
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 1: here blessed old head, O mine, I think not? Would
• 3:00:20
  Speaker 1: you do me the favor miss to take notice O
• 3:00:23
  Speaker 1: two promises and wows? What it is my wishes for
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 1: to record in this here crisis, Oh, for gracious sake,
• 3:00:30
  Speaker 1: cried Miss Pross, still wildly crying, Record them at once
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 1: and get them out of the way like an excellent man. First,
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: said mister Cruncher, who was all in a tremble, and
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 1: who spoke with an ashy and solemn visage them poor
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 1: things well out O this never no more will I
• 3:00:48
  Speaker 1: do it never no more. I am quite sure, mister
• 3:00:52
  Speaker 1: Cruncher returned Miss Pross, that you never will do it again,
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, and I beg you not to think
• 3:00:58
  Speaker 1: it necessary to mention more particularly what it is. No,
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: Miss returned Jerry, it shall not be named to you.
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: Second them poor things well out o this, and never
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: no more will I interfere with Missus Cruncher's flopping. Never
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: no more, whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be said Miss
• 3:01:19
  Speaker 1: Pross striving to dry her eyes and compose herself, I
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: have no doubt it is best that Missus Cruncher should
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: have it entirely under her own superintendent stot O my
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 1: poor darlings. I go so far as to say Miss
• 3:01:34
  Speaker 1: Moreover preceded mister Cruncher with a most alarming tendency to
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: hold forth as from a pulpit, and let my words
• 3:01:40
  Speaker 1: be took down and took to Missus Cruncher through yourself,
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: that what my opinions respect in flopping has undergone a change,
• 3:01:48
  Speaker 1: and that what I only hope with all my heart
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: as Missus Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time.
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: There there there I hope she is, my dear man,
• 3:01:59
  Speaker 1: cry the distracted Miss Pross, and I hope she finds
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 1: it answering her expectations. Forbid it preceded mister Cruncher, with
• 3:02:07
  Speaker 1: additional solemnity, additional slowness, an additional tendency to hold forth
• 3:02:12
  Speaker 1: and hold out as anything what I have ever said
• 3:02:15
  Speaker 1: or done should be visited on my earnest wishes for
• 3:02:17
  Speaker 1: them poor creturs. Now forbid it, as we shouldn't all
• 3:02:21
  Speaker 1: flop if it was any ways convenient to get em
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 1: out o this here dismal risk. Forbid it, miss what
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 1: I say, forbid it. This was mister Cruncher's conclusion after
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: a protracted but vain endeavor to find a better one,
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: and still Madame Defarge, pursuing her way along the streets,
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: came nearer and nearer, if we ever get back to
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: our native land, said Miss Pross, you may rely upon
• 3:02:47
  Speaker 1: my telling, missus Cruncher, as much as I may be
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: able to remember and understand of what you have so
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 1: impressively said, And at all events you may be sure
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: that I shall bear witness to your being thoroughly in
• 3:02:57
  Speaker 1: earnest at this dreadful time. Now pray let us think
• 3:03:02
  Speaker 1: my esteemed mister Cruncher, let us think still. Madame Defarge,
• 3:03:06
  Speaker 1: pursuing her way along the streets, came nearer and nearer.
• 3:03:11
  Speaker 1: If you were to go before, said miss Pross, and
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: stop the vehicle and horses from coming here, and were
• 3:03:16
  Speaker 1: to wait somewhere for me, wouldn't that be best? Mister
• 3:03:20
  Speaker 1: Cruncher thought it might be best. Where could you wait
• 3:03:23
  Speaker 1: for me? Asked Miss Pross. Mister Cruncher was so bewildered
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: that he could think of no locality but Temple Bar Alas.
• 3:03:33
  Speaker 1: Temple Bar was hundreds of miles away, and Madame Defarge
• 3:03:37
  Speaker 1: was drawing very near, indeed by the cathedral door, said
• 3:03:41
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross. Would it be much out of the way
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: to take me in near the great cathedral door between
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: the two towers, No, miss answered mister Cruncher. Then, like
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: the best of men, said Miss Pross, go to the
• 3:03:56
  Speaker 1: posting house straight and make that change. I am doubtful,
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: said mister Cruncher, hesitating and shaking his head about leaving
• 3:04:04
  Speaker 1: of you. You see, we don't know what may happen.
• 3:04:08
  Speaker 1: Heaven knows we don't, returned Miss Pross, But have no
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: fear for me. Take me in at the cathedral at
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: three o'clock, or as near it as you can, and
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: I am sure it will be better than our going
• 3:04:19
  Speaker 1: from here. I feel certain of it. There Bless you,
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 1: mister Cruncher, think not of me, but of the lives
• 3:04:29
  Speaker 1: that may depend on both of us. This exordium and
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 1: Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonized entreaty Clasping his
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: decided mister Cruncher with an encouraging nod or two. He
• 3:04:41
  Speaker 1: immediately went out to alter the arrangements and left her
• 3:04:44
  Speaker 1: by herself to follow as she had proposed. The having
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: originated a precaution which was already in course of execution,
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: was a great relief to Miss Pross. The necessity of
• 3:04:56
  Speaker 1: composing her appearance so that it should attract no special
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: notice in the streets was another relief. She looked at
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: her watch, and it was twenty minutes past two. She
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: had no time to lose, but must get ready at once.
• 3:05:10
  Speaker 1: Afraid in her extreme perturbation of the loneliness of the
• 3:05:14
  Speaker 1: deserted rooms and of half imagined faces peeping from behind
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: every open door in them, Miss Pross got a basin
• 3:05:20
  Speaker 1: of cold water and began laving her eyes, which were
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 1: swollen and red haunted by her feverish apprehensions. She could
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 1: not bear to have her sight obscured for a minute
• 3:05:30
  Speaker 1: at a time by the dripping water, but constantly paused
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 1: and looked round to see that there was no one
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: watching her. In one of those pauses, she recoiled and
• 3:05:39
  Speaker 1: cried out, for she saw a figure standing in the room.
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: The basin fell to the ground, broken, and the water
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange, stern ways,
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: and through much staining blood, those feet had come to
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 1: meet that water. Madame Defarge looked coldly at her and said,
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: the wife of Evremonde, where is she? It flashed upon
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 1: miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: and would suggest the flight. Her first act was to
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: shut them. There were four in the room, and she
• 3:06:11
  Speaker 1: shut them all. She then placed herself before the door
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 1: of the chamber which Lucie had occupied. Madame Defarge's dark
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 1: eyes followed her through this rapid movement and rested on
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 1: her when it was finished. Miss Pross had nothing beautiful
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 1: about her. Years had not tamed the wildness or softened
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 1: the grimness of her appearance, But she too was a
• 3:06:33
  Speaker 1: determined woman in her different way, and she measured Madame
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: Defarge with her eyes every inch. You might, from your
• 3:06:40
  Speaker 1: appearance be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross in
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 1: her breathing. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me.
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: I am an englishwoman. Madame Defarge looked at her scornfully,
• 3:06:52
  Speaker 1: but still with something of Miss Pross's own perception that
• 3:06:55
  Speaker 1: they too were at bay. She saw a tight, hard,
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: wary woman before her, as mister Laurie had seen in
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 1: the same figure a woman with a strong hand in
• 3:07:06
  Speaker 1: the years gone by. She knew full well that Miss
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: Pross was the family's devoted friend. Miss Pross knew full
• 3:07:13
  Speaker 1: well that Madame Defarge was the family's malevolent enemy. On
• 3:07:17
  Speaker 1: my way yonder, said Madame Defarge, with a slight movement
• 3:07:21
  Speaker 1: of her hand, towards the fatal spot where they reserved
• 3:07:24
  Speaker 1: my chair and my knitting for me. I am come
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 1: to make my compliments to her in passing. I wish
• 3:07:29
  Speaker 1: to see her. I know that your intentions are evil,
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: said Miss Pross, and you may depend upon it. I'll
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: hold my own against them. Each spoke in her own language.
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: Neither understood the other's words. Both were very watchful and
• 3:07:44
  Speaker 1: intent to deduce from look and manner what the unintelligible
• 3:07:47
  Speaker 1: words meant. It will do her no good to keep
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 1: herself concealed from me at this moment, said Madame Defarge.
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see her,
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: go tell her that I wished to see her. Do
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: you hear if those eyes of yours were bed winches,
• 3:08:06
  Speaker 1: returned Miss Pross, and I was an English four poster,
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't lose a splinter of me. No, you wicked
• 3:08:13
  Speaker 1: foreign woman, I am your match. Madame Defarge was not
• 3:08:17
  Speaker 1: likely to follow these idiomatic remarks in detail, but she
• 3:08:21
  Speaker 1: so far understood them as to perceive that she was
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: said at naught woman, imbecile and pig like, said Madame Defarge, frowning,
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 1: I take no answer from you. I demand to see her.
• 3:08:34
  Speaker 1: Either tell her that I demand to see her, or
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: stand out of the way of the door and let
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: me go to her. This with an angry explanatory wave
• 3:08:42
  Speaker 1: of her right arm. I little thought, said Miss Pross,
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 1: that I should ever want to understand your nonsensical language,
• 3:08:49
  Speaker 1: but I would give all I have except the clothes
• 3:08:52
  Speaker 1: I wear, to know whether you suspect the truth or
• 3:08:55
  Speaker 1: any part of it. Neither of them, for a single moment,
• 3:08:57
  Speaker 1: released the other's eyes. Madame Defarge had not moved from
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: the spot where she stood when Miss Pross first became
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 1: aware of her, but she now advanced one step. I
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: am a Briton, said Miss Pross. I am desperate. I
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: don't care an English tuppence for myself. I know that
• 3:09:15
  Speaker 1: the longer I keep you here, the greater hope there
• 3:09:18
  Speaker 1: is for my lady bird. I'll not leave a handful
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: of that dark hair upon your head if you lay
• 3:09:24
  Speaker 1: a finger on me. Thus Miss Pross, with a shake
• 3:09:27
  Speaker 1: of her head and a flash of her eyes, between
• 3:09:29
  Speaker 1: every rapid sentence and every rapid sentence, a whole breath.
• 3:09:33
  Speaker 1: Thus Miss Pross, who had never struck a blow in
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 1: her life, but her courage was of that emotional nature
• 3:09:40
  Speaker 1: that it brought the irrepressible tears into her eyes. This
• 3:09:44
  Speaker 1: was a courage that Madame Defarge so little comprehended as
• 3:09:47
  Speaker 1: to mistake for weakness. Ha ha, she laughed, you poor wretch,
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 1: what are you worth? I address myself to that doctor.
• 3:09:57
  Speaker 1: Then she raised her voice and called out Sitt, wife
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: of Evremond, child of Evremond. Any person but this miserable
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 1: fool answer, the scitizedeness Defarge, perhaps the following silence, perhaps
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 1: some latent disclosure in the expression of Miss Pross's face,
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 1: perhaps a sudden misgiving. Apart from either suggestion, whispered to
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge that they were gone. Three of the doors
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 1: she opened swiftly and looked in. Those rooms are all
• 3:10:26
  Speaker 1: in disorder. There has been hurried packing. There are odds
• 3:10:30
  Speaker 1: and ends upon the ground. There is no one in
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 1: that room behind you. Let me look never, said miss Pross,
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: who understood the request as perfectly as Madame Defarge understood
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: the answer. If they are not in that room, they
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 1: are gone and can be pursued and brought back, said
• 3:10:48
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge to herself. As long as you don't know
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 1: whether they are in that room or not, you are
• 3:10:54
  Speaker 1: uncertain what to do, said Miss Pross to herself. And
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: you shall not know that. If I can prevent your
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 1: knowing it, and know that or not know that, you
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: shall not leave here while I can hold you. I
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 1: have been in the streets from the first. Nothing has
• 3:11:08
  Speaker 1: stopped me. I will tear you to pieces, but I
• 3:11:11
  Speaker 1: will have you from that door, said Madame Defarge. We
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 1: are alone at the top of a high house in
• 3:11:17
  Speaker 1: a solitary courtyard. We are not likely to be heard,
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: and I pray for bodily strength to keep you here,
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: while every minute you are here is worth a hundred
• 3:11:25
  Speaker 1: thousand guineas to my darling, said Miss Pross. Madame Defarge
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: made at the door. Miss Pross, on the instinct of
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: the moment, seized her round the waist in both her
• 3:11:36
  Speaker 1: arms and held her tight. It was in vain for
• 3:11:39
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike. Miss Pross, with
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 1: the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate,
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: clasped her tight and even lifted her from the floor.
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: In the struggle that they had, the two hands of
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 1: Madame Defarge buffeted and tore her face, but Miss Pross,
• 3:11:57
  Speaker 1: with her head down, held her round the waist and
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 1: clung to her with more than the hold of a
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 1: drowning woman. Soon Madame Defarge's hands ceased to strike and
• 3:12:06
  Speaker 1: felt at her encircled waist. It is under my arm,
• 3:12:10
  Speaker 1: said Miss Pross, in smothered tones. YE shall not draw it.
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: I am stronger than you. I bless Heaven for it.
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 1: I hold you till one or other of us faints
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: for dies. Madame Defarge's hands were at her bosom. Miss
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: Pross looked up, saw what it was, struck at it
• 3:12:28
  Speaker 1: struck out a flash in a crash, and stood alone,
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 1: blinded with smoke. All this was in a second. As
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 1: the smoke cleared, leaving an awful stillness, it passed out
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 1: on the air, like the soul of the furious woman
• 3:12:42
  Speaker 1: whose body lay lifeless on the ground. In the first
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 1: fright and horror of her situation, Miss Pross passed the
• 3:12:49
  Speaker 1: body as far from it as she could, and ran
• 3:12:51
  Speaker 1: down the stairs to call for fruitless help. Happily, she
• 3:12:55
  Speaker 1: bethought herself of the consequences of what she did in
• 3:12:58
  Speaker 1: time to check herself go back. It was dreadful to
• 3:13:02
  Speaker 1: go in at the door again, but she did go in,
• 3:13:05
  Speaker 1: and even went near it to get the bonnet and
• 3:13:07
  Speaker 1: other things that she must wear. These she put on
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: out on the staircase, first shutting and locking the door
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: and taking away the key. She then sat down on
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 1: the stairs a few moments to breathe and to cry,
• 3:13:20
  Speaker 1: and then got up and hurried away. By good fortune,
• 3:13:24
  Speaker 1: she had a veil on her bonnet, or she could
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: hardly have gone along the streets without being stopped by
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 1: good fortune. Too. She was naturally so peculiar in appearance
• 3:13:34
  Speaker 1: as not to show disfigurement like any other woman. She
• 3:13:37
  Speaker 1: needed both advantages, for the marks of gripping fingers were
• 3:13:41
  Speaker 1: deep in her face, and her hair was torn, and
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: her dress, hastily composed with unsteady hands, was clutched and
• 3:13:47
  Speaker 1: dragged a hundred ways. In crossing the bridge, she dropped
• 3:13:52
  Speaker 1: the door key in the river. Arriving at the cathedral
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: some few minutes before her escort, and waiting there, she thought,
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: what if the key were already taken in a net,
• 3:14:02
  Speaker 1: What if it were identified? What if the door were
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 1: opened and the remains discovered? What if she were stopped
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: at the gate, sent to prison and charged with murder.
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 1: In the midst of these fluttering thoughts, the escort appeared,
• 3:14:14
  Speaker 1: took her in, and took her away. Is there any
• 3:14:17
  Speaker 1: noise in the streets, she asked him, the usual noises.
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 1: Mister Cruncher replied, and looked surprised by the question and
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 1: by her aspect. I don't hear you said, miss Pross,
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 1: What do you say? It was in vain for mister
• 3:14:33
  Speaker 1: Cruncher to repeat what he said Miss Pross could not
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 1: hear him, so I'll nod my head, thought mister Cruncher,
• 3:14:40
  Speaker 1: amazed at all events. She'll see that, and she did.
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: Is there any noise in the streets now, asked Miss
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: Pross again? Presently Again, mister Cruncher nodded his head. I
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: don't hear it. Gone deaf in an hour, said mister Cruncher,
• 3:14:58
  Speaker 1: ruminating with his mind much disas disturbed. What's come to her?
• 3:15:02
  Speaker 1: I feel, said miss Pross, as if there had been
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 1: a flash and a crash, and that crash was the
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: last thing I should ever hear in this life. Blest
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 1: if she ain't in a queer condition, said mister Cruncher,
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: more and more disturbed. What can she have been a
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: talquen to keep her courage up? Hark, there's the roll
• 3:15:22
  Speaker 1: of them dreadful carts. You can hear that, miss I
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: can hear, said Miss Pross, seeing that he spoke to her. Nothing. Oh,
• 3:15:32
  Speaker 1: my good man. There was first a great crash and
• 3:15:35
  Speaker 1: then a great stillness, And that stillness seems to be
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: fixed and unchangeable, never to be broken any more as
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: long as my life lasts. If she don't hear the
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 1: roll of those dreadful carts, now very nigh their journey's end,
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 1: said mister Cruncher, glancing over his shoulder. It's my opinion
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 1: that indeed she never will hear anything else in this world,
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: and indeed she never did. Chapter fifteen. The footsteps die
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: out forever. Along the Paris streets, the death carts rumble,
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 1: hollow and harsh. Six tumbrels carry the day's wine to
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 1: La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate monsters, imagine, since
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realization guillotine.
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 1: And yet there is not, in France, with its rich
• 3:16:22
  Speaker 1: variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root,
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 1: conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: crush humanity out of shape once more under similar hammers,
• 3:16:38
  Speaker 1: and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms,
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 1: sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again,
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: and it will surely yield the same fruit according to
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 1: its kind. Six tumbrels roll along the streets, change these
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 1: back again to what they were, Thou powerful enchanter time,
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: and they shall be seen to be the carriages of
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 1: absolute monarchs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilets of
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: flaring jezebels, the churches that are not my father's house,
• 3:17:07
  Speaker 1: but dens of thieves, the huts of millions of starving peasants. No,
• 3:17:12
  Speaker 1: the great magician, who majestically works out the appointed order
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 1: of the Creator, never reverses his transformations. If thou be
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 1: changed into this shape by the will of God, say
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 1: the seers to the enchanted in the wise Arabian stories,
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: then remain so. But if thou wear this form through
• 3:17:30
  Speaker 1: mere passing conjuration, then resume thy former aspect, changeless and hopeless.
• 3:17:35
  Speaker 1: The tumbrels roll along as the somber wheels of the
• 3:17:39
  Speaker 1: six carts go round. They seem to plow up a long,
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 1: crooked furrow among the populace. In the streets. Ridges of
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: faces are thrown to this side and to that, and
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 1: the plows go steadily onward. So used are the regular
• 3:17:52
  Speaker 1: inhabitants of the houses to the spectacle that in many
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 1: windows there are no people, and in some the occupation
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 1: of the hands is not so much much as suspended,
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: while the eyes survey the faces in the tumbrels. Here
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: and there the inmate has visitors to see the sight.
• 3:18:07
  Speaker 1: Then he points his finger with something of the complacency
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: of a curator or authorized exponent, to this cart and
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 1: to this, and seems to tell who sat here yesterday
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: and who there the day before. Of the riders in
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 1: the tumbrils, some observe these things and all things on
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: their last roadside with an impassive stare others with a
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: lingering interest in the ways of life, and men, some
• 3:18:31
  Speaker 1: seated with drooping heads, are sunk in silent despair. Again,
• 3:18:35
  Speaker 1: there are some so heedful of their looks that they
• 3:18:38
  Speaker 1: cast upon the multitude such glances as they have seen
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 1: in theaters and in pictures. Several close their eyes and
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: think or try to get their straying thoughts together. Only one,
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: and he, a miserable creature of a crazed aspect, is
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: so shattered and made drunk by horror that he sings
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: and tries to dance. Not one of the whole number
• 3:19:00
  Speaker 1: appeals by look or gesture to the pity of the people.
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 1: There is a guard of sundry horsemen riding abreast of
• 3:19:06
  Speaker 1: the tumbrels and faces are often turned up to some
• 3:19:09
  Speaker 1: of them, and they are asked some question. It would
• 3:19:13
  Speaker 1: seem to be always the same question, for it is
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 1: always followed by a press of people towards the third cart.
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 1: The horsemen abreast of that cart frequently point out one
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: man in it with their swords. The leading curiosity is
• 3:19:27
  Speaker 1: to know which is he. He stands at the back
• 3:19:30
  Speaker 1: of the tumbrel with his head bent down to converse
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: with a mere girl who sits on the side of
• 3:19:34
  Speaker 1: the cart and holds his hand. He has no curiosity
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 1: or care for the scene about him, and always speaks
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 1: to the girl. Here and there in the long street
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 1: of Sanore. Cries are raised against him. If they move
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: him at all, it is only to a quiet smile.
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: As he shakes his hair a little more loosely about
• 3:19:53
  Speaker 1: his face. He cannot easily touch his face, his arms
• 3:19:57
  Speaker 1: being bound on the steps a church. Awaiting the coming
• 3:20:01
  Speaker 1: up of the tumbrels, stands the spy and prison sheep.
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 1: He looks into the first of them. Not there, He
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: looks into the second. Not there. He already asks himself,
• 3:20:13
  Speaker 1: as he sacrificed me. When his face clears as he
• 3:20:16
  Speaker 1: looks into the third, which is Evremond, says a man
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 1: behind him that at the back there with his hand
• 3:20:25
  Speaker 1: in the girls. Yes, the man cries, down Evremonde, to
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: the guillotine, All aristocrats, down, Evremonde. Hush, hush. The spy
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  Speaker 1: entreats him timidly, and why not, citizen, he is going
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  Speaker 1: to pay the forfeit. It will be paid in five
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  Speaker 1: minutes more. Let him be at peace. But the man
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  Speaker 1: continuing to exclaim down Evremond. The face of Evremond is
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  Speaker 1: for a moment turned towards him. Evremond then sees the
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  Speaker 1: spy and looks at at him, and goes his way.
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  Speaker 1: The clocks are on the stroke of three, and the
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  Speaker 1: furrow plowed among the populace is turning round to come
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  Speaker 1: on into the place of execution and end. The ridges
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  Speaker 1: thrown to this side and to that now crumble in
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  Speaker 1: and close behind the last plow as it passes on,
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  Speaker 1: for all are following to the guillotine. In front of it,
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  Speaker 1: seated in chairs as in a garden of public diversion,
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  Speaker 1: are a number of women busily knitting. On one of
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  Speaker 1: the four most chairs, stands the Vengeance, looking about for
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  Speaker 1: her friend Teres. She cries in her shrill tones. Who
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  Speaker 1: has seen her thees defarge She never missed before, says
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  Speaker 1: a knitting woman of the sisterhood. No nor will she
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  Speaker 1: miss now, cries the vengeance petulantly. Teres louder. The woman recommends,
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  Speaker 1: I louder, vengeance, much louder. And still she will scarcely
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  Speaker 1: hear thee louder. Yet vengeance with a little oath or
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  Speaker 1: so added, And yet it will hardly bring her. Send
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  Speaker 1: other women up and down to seek her lingering somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And yet although the messengers have done dread deeds, it
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  Speaker 1: is questionable whether of their own wills they will go
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  Speaker 1: far enough to find her bad fortune, cries the vengeance,
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  Speaker 1: stamping her foot in the chair. And here are the tumbrels,
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  Speaker 1: and Evremond will be despatched in a wink, and she
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  Speaker 1: not here see her knitting in my hand, and her
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  Speaker 1: empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: As the vengeance descends from her elevation to do it,
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  Speaker 1: the tumbrels begin to discharge their loads. The ministers of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Guillotine are robed and ready crash Ahead is held up,
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  Speaker 1: and the knitting women who scarcely lifted their eyes to
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  Speaker 1: look at it, a moment ago when it could think
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  Speaker 1: and speak. Count one. The second tumbrel empties and moves on.
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  Speaker 1: The third comes up crash, and the knitting women never
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  Speaker 1: faltering or pausing in their work. Count two. The supposed
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 1: Evremond descends and the seamstress is lifted out next after him.
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  Speaker 1: He has not relinquished her patient hand in getting out,
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  Speaker 1: but still holds it as he promised. He gently places her,
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  Speaker 1: with her back to the crashing engine that constantly wears
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  Speaker 1: up and falls, and she looks into his face and
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  Speaker 1: thanks him. But for you, dear stranger, I should not
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  Speaker 1: be so composed, for I am naturally a poor little thing,
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  Speaker 1: faint of heart. Nor should I have been able to
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  Speaker 1: raise my thoughts to him who was put to death
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  Speaker 1: that we might have hope and comfort here to day.
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  Speaker 1: I think you were sent to me by Heaven, or
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 1: you to me, says Sidney Carton. Keep your eyes upon me,
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  Speaker 1: dear child, and mind no other object. I mind nothing
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  Speaker 1: while I hold your hand. I shall mind nothing when
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  Speaker 1: I let it go. If they are rapid, they will
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  Speaker 1: be rapid. Fear not. The two stand in the fastenning
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  Speaker 1: throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone.
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  Speaker 1: I to I, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart
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  Speaker 1: to heart. These two children of the Universal Mother, else
• 3:24:13
  Speaker 1: so wide apart in differing, have come together on the
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  Speaker 1: dark highway to repair home together and to rest in
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  Speaker 1: her bosom. Brave and generous friend, will you let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you one last question. I am very ignorant, and
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: it troubles me just a little. Tell me what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I have a cousin, an only relative, and an orphan
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  Speaker 1: like myself, whom I love very dearly. She is five
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  Speaker 1: years younger than I, and she lives in a farmer's
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  Speaker 1: house in the south country. Poverty parted us, and she
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  Speaker 1: knows nothing of my fate, for I cannot write. And
• 3:24:47
  Speaker 1: if I could, how should I tell her? It is
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: better as it is? Yes, yes, better as it is.
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  Speaker 1: What I have been thinking as we came along, and
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  Speaker 1: what I am still thinking now as I look into
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: your kind, strong face, which gives me so much support,
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: is this, If the Republic really does good to the poor,
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  Speaker 1: and they come to be less hungry, and in all
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  Speaker 1: ways to suffer less, she may live a long time,
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  Speaker 1: she may even live to be old. What then, my
• 3:25:16
  Speaker 1: gentle sister, do you think the uncomplaining eyes in which
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  Speaker 1: there is so much endurance fill with tears and the
• 3:25:23
  Speaker 1: lips part a little more and tremble, that it will
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  Speaker 1: seem long to me while I wait for her in
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 1: the better land, where I trust both you and I
• 3:25:30
  Speaker 1: will be mercifully sheltered. It cannot be my child. There
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: is no time there and no trouble there. You comfort
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  Speaker 1: me so much. I am so ignorant? Am I to
• 3:25:43
  Speaker 1: kiss you? Now? Is the moment? Come? Yes? She kisses
• 3:25:47
  Speaker 1: his lips, he kisses hers. They solemnly bless each other.
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  Speaker 1: The spare hand does not tremble as he releases it.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing worse than a sweet, bright constancy is in the
• 3:25:58
  Speaker 1: patient face. She goes next before him is gone. The
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 1: knitting women count twenty two. I am the resurrection in
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 1: the life set the Lord, He that believeth in me,
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 1: though he were dead, Yet shall he live. And whosoever
• 3:26:13
  Speaker 1: liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. The murmuring
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 1: of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd,
• 3:26:23
  Speaker 1: so that it swells forward in a mass, like one
• 3:26:25
  Speaker 1: great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty three. They
• 3:26:31
  Speaker 1: said of him about the city that night, that it
• 3:26:33
  Speaker 1: was the peaceifulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: that he looked sublime and prophetic, one of the most
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: remarkable sufferers. By the same acts. A woman had asked
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: at the foot of the same scaffold not long before,
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: to be allowed to write down the thoughts that were
• 3:26:50
  Speaker 1: inspiring her. If he had given any utterance to his
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 1: and they were prophetic, they would have been these. I
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: see barsad and cly defarge, the vengeance, the jury man,
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: the judge, long ranks of the new oppressors, who have
• 3:27:04
  Speaker 1: risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: retributive instrument before it shall cease out of its present use.
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: I see a beautiful city, in a brilliant people rising
• 3:27:14
  Speaker 1: from this abyss, and in their struggles to be truly free,
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 1: in their triumphs and defeats through long years to come.
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: I see the evil of this time and of the
• 3:27:23
  Speaker 1: previous time, of which this is the natural birth, gradually
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 1: making expiation for itself and wearing out. I see the
• 3:27:30
  Speaker 1: lives for which I laid down my life peaceful, useful, prosperous,
• 3:27:34
  Speaker 1: and happy in that england which I shall see no more.
• 3:27:38
  Speaker 1: I see her with a child upon her bosom, who
• 3:27:40
  Speaker 1: bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent,
• 3:27:45
  Speaker 1: but otherwise restored and faithful to all men, in his
• 3:27:48
  Speaker 1: healing office and at peace. I see the good old man,
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: so long their friend in ten years time, enriching them
• 3:27:55
  Speaker 1: with all he has, and passing tranquility to his reward.
• 3:27:59
  Speaker 1: I I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts,
• 3:28:02
  Speaker 1: and in the hearts of their descendants generations. Hence I
• 3:28:06
  Speaker 1: see her, an old woman weeping for me on the
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband,
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: their course done, lying side by side in their last
• 3:28:16
  Speaker 1: earthly bed, And I know that each was not more
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: honored and held sacred in the other's soul than I
• 3:28:21
  Speaker 1: was in the souls of both. I see that child
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 1: who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name,
• 3:28:27
  Speaker 1: a man winning his way up in that path of
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 1: life which once was mine. I see him winning it
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: so well that my name is made illustrious there by
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 1: the light of his. I see the blots I threw
• 3:28:38
  Speaker 1: upon it faded away. I see him for most of
• 3:28:42
  Speaker 1: just judges and honored men, bringing a boy of my
• 3:28:45
  Speaker 1: name with a forehead that I know and golden hair
• 3:28:48
  Speaker 1: to this place, then fair to look upon, with not
• 3:28:51
  Speaker 1: a trace of this day's disfigurement. And I hear him
• 3:28:54
  Speaker 1: tell the child my story with a tender and a
• 3:28:56
  Speaker 1: faltering voice. It is afar far better thing that I
• 3:29:00
  Speaker 1: do than I have ever done. It is a far
• 3:29:03
  Speaker 1: far better rest that I go to than I have
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 1: ever known.