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1"Both were so wrapped up, and the night was so dark, and we were all so reserved, that I cannot undertake to say even
2that." "Mr. Lorry, look again upon the prisoner. Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there
3anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them?" "No." "You will not swear, Mr. Lorry,
4that he was not one of them?" "No." "So at least you say he may have been one of them?" "Yes. Except that I remember
5them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air." "Did you ever see
6a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry?" "I certainly have seen that." "Mr. Lorry, look once more upon the prisoner. Have
7you seen him, to your certain knowledge, before?" "I have." "When?" "I was returning from France a few days afterwards,
8and, at Calais, the prisoner came on board the packet-ship in which I returned, and made the voyage with me." "At what
9hour did he come on board?" "At a little after midnight." "In the dead of the night. Was he the only passenger who came
10on board at that untimely hour?" "He happened to be the only one." "Never mind about 'happening,' Mr. Lorry. He was the
11only passenger who came on board in the dead of the night?" "He was." "Were you travelling alone, Mr. Lorry, or with any
12companion?" "With two companions. A gentleman and lady. They are here." "They are here. Had you any conversation with
13the prisoner?" "Hardly any. The weather was stormy, and the passage long and rough, and I lay on a sofa, almost from
14shore to shore." "Miss Manette!" The young lady, to whom all eyes had been turned before, and were now turned again,
15stood up where she had sat. Her father rose with her, and kept her hand drawn through his arm. "Miss Manette, look upon
16the prisoner." To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused
17than to be confronted with all the crowd. Standing, as it were, apart with her on the edge of his grave, not all the
18staring curiosity that looked on, could, for the moment, nerve him to remain quite still. His hurried right hand
19parcelled out the herbs before him into imaginary beds of flowers in a garden; and his efforts to control and steady his
20breathing shook the lips from which the colour rushed to his heart. The buzz of the great flies was loud again. "Miss
21Manette, have you seen the prisoner before?" "Yes, sir." "Where?" "On board of the packet-ship just now referred to,
22sir, and on the same occasion." "You are the young lady just now referred to?" "O! most unhappily, I am!" The plaintive
23tone of her compassion merged into the less musical voice of the Judge, as he said something fiercely: "Answer the
24questions put to you, and make no remark upon them." "Miss Manette, had you any conversation with the prisoner on that
25passage across the Channel?" "Yes, sir." "Recall it." In the midst of a profound stillness, she faintly began: "When the
26gentleman came on board--" "Do you mean the prisoner?" inquired the Judge, knitting his brows. "Yes, my Lord." "Then say
27the prisoner." "When the prisoner came on board, he noticed that my father," turning her eyes lovingly to him as he
28stood beside her, "was much fatigued and in a very weak state of health. My father was so reduced that I was afraid to
29take him out of the air, and I had made a bed for him on the deck near the cabin steps, and I sat on the deck at his
30side to take care of him. There were no other passengers that night, but we four. The prisoner was so good as to beg
31permission to advise me how I could shelter my father from the wind and weather, better than I had done. I had not known
32how to do it well, not understanding how the wind would set when we were out of the harbour. He did it for me. He
33expressed great gentleness and kindness for my father's state, and I am sure he felt it. That was the manner of our
34beginning to speak together." "Let me interrupt you for a moment. Had he come on board alone?" "No." "How many were with
35him?" "Two French gentlemen." "Had they conferred together?" "They had conferred together until the last moment, when it
36was necessary for the French gentlemen to be landed in their boat." "Had any papers been handed about among them,
37similar to these lists?" "Some papers had been handed about among them, but I don't know what papers." "Like these in
38shape and size?" "Possibly, but indeed I don't know, although they stood whispering very near to me: because they stood
39at the top of the cabin steps to have the light of the lamp that was hanging there; it was a dull lamp, and they spoke
40very low, and I did not hear what they said, and saw only that they looked at papers." "Now, to the prisoner's
41conversation, Miss Manette." "The prisoner was as open in his confidence with me--which arose out of my helpless
42situation--as he was kind, and good, and useful to my father. I hope," bursting into tears, "I may not repay him by
43doing him harm to-day." Buzzing from the blue-flies. "Miss Manette, if the prisoner does not perfectly understand that
44you give the evidence which it is your duty to give--which you must give--and which you cannot escape from giving--with
45great unwillingness, he is the only person present in that condition. Please to go on." "He told me that he was
46travelling on business of a delicate and difficult nature, which might get people into trouble, and that he was
47therefore travelling under an assumed name. He said that this business had, within a few days, taken him to France, and
48might, at intervals, take him backwards and forwards between France and England for a long time to come." "Did he say
49anything about America, Miss Manette? Be particular." "He tried to explain to me how that quarrel had arisen, and he
50said that, so far as he could judge, it was a wrong and foolish one on England's part. He added, in a jesting way, that
51perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the Third. But there was no harm in his
52way of saying this: it was said laughingly, and to beguile the time." Any strongly marked expression of face on the part
53of a chief actor in a scene of great interest to whom many eyes are directed, will be unconsciously imitated by the
54spectators. Her forehead was painfully anxious and intent as she gave this evidence, and, in the pauses when she stopped
55for the Judge to write it down, watched its effect upon the counsel for and against. Among the lookers-on there was the
56same expression in all quarters of the court; insomuch, that a great majority of the foreheads there, might have been
57mirrors reflecting the witness, when the Judge looked up from his notes to glare at that tremendous heresy about George
58Washington. Mr. Attorney-General now signified to my Lord, that he deemed it necessary, as a matter of precaution and
59form, to call the young lady's father, Doctor Manette. Who was called accordingly. "Doctor Manette, look upon the
60prisoner. Have you ever seen him before?" "Once. When he called at my lodgings in London. Some three years, or three
61years and a half ago." "Can you identify him as your fellow-passenger on board the packet, or speak to his conversation
62with your daughter?" "Sir, I can do neither." "Is there any particular and special reason for your being unable to do
63either?" He answered, in a low voice, "There is." "Has it been your misfortune to undergo a long imprisonment, without
64trial, or even accusation, in your native country, Doctor Manette?" He answered, in a tone that went to every heart, "A
65long imprisonment." "Were you newly released on the occasion in question?" "They tell me so." "Have you no remembrance
66of the occasion?" "None. My mind is a blank, from some time--I cannot even say what time--when I employed myself, in my
67captivity, in making shoes, to the time when I found myself living in London with my dear daughter here. She had become
68familiar to me, when a gracious God restored my faculties; but, I am quite unable even to say how she had become
69familiar. I have no remembrance of the process." Mr. Attorney-General sat down, and the father and daughter sat down
70together.
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