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1The Doctor looked desolately round the room, shook his head, and answered, in a low voice, "Not at all." "Now, as to the
2future," hinted Mr. Lorry. "As to the future," said the Doctor, recovering firmness, "I should have great hope. As it
3pleased Heaven in its mercy to restore him so soon, I should have great hope. He, yielding under the pressure of a
4complicated something, long dreaded and long vaguely foreseen and contended against, and recovering after the cloud had
5burst and passed, I should hope that the worst was over." "Well, well! That's good comfort. I am thankful!" said Mr.
6Lorry. "I am thankful!" repeated the Doctor, bending his head with reverence. "There are two other points," said Mr.
7Lorry, "on which I am anxious to be instructed. I may go on?" "You cannot do your friend a better service." The Doctor
8gave him his hand. "To the first, then. He is of a studious habit, and unusually energetic; he applies himself with
9great ardour to the acquisition of professional knowledge, to the conducting of experiments, to many things. Now, does
10he do too much?" "I think not. It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That
11may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the
12more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery."
13"You are sure that he is not under too great a strain?" "I think I am quite sure of it." "My dear Manette, if he were
14overworked now--" "My dear Lorry, I doubt if that could easily be. There has been a violent stress in one direction, and
15it needs a counterweight." "Excuse me, as a persistent man of business. Assuming for a moment, that he was overworked;
16it would show itself in some renewal of this disorder?" "I do not think so. I do not think," said Doctor Manette with
17the firmness of self-conviction, "that anything but the one train of association would renew it. I think that,
18henceforth, nothing but some extraordinary jarring of that chord could renew it. After what has happened, and after his
19recovery, I find it difficult to imagine any such violent sounding of that string again. I trust, and I almost believe,
20that the circumstances likely to renew it are exhausted." He spoke with the diffidence of a man who knew how slight a
21thing would overset the delicate organisation of the mind, and yet with the confidence of a man who had slowly won his
22assurance out of personal endurance and distress. It was not for his friend to abate that confidence. He professed
23himself more relieved and encouraged than he really was, and approached his second and last point. He felt it to be the
24most difficult of all; but, remembering his old Sunday morning conversation with Miss Pross, and remembering what he had
25seen in the last nine days, he knew that he must face it. "The occupation resumed under the influence of this passing
26affliction so happily recovered from," said Mr. Lorry, clearing his throat, "we will call--Blacksmith's work,
27Blacksmith's work. We will say, to put a case and for the sake of illustration, that he had been used, in his bad time,
28to work at a little forge. We will say that he was unexpectedly found at his forge again. Is it not a pity that he
29should keep it by him?" The Doctor shaded his forehead with his hand, and beat his foot nervously on the ground. "He has
30always kept it by him," said Mr. Lorry, with an anxious look at his friend. "Now, would it not be better that he should
31let it go?" Still, the Doctor, with shaded forehead, beat his foot nervously on the ground. "You do not find it easy to
32advise me?" said Mr. Lorry. "I quite understand it to be a nice question. And yet I think--" And there he shook his
33head, and stopped. "You see," said Doctor Manette, turning to him after an uneasy pause, "it is very hard to explain,
34consistently, the innermost workings of this poor man's mind. He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it
35was so welcome when it came; no doubt it relieved his pain so much, by substituting the perplexity of the fingers for
36the perplexity of the brain, and by substituting, as he became more practised, the ingenuity of the hands, for the
37ingenuity of the mental torture; that he has never been able to bear the thought of putting it quite out of his reach.
38Even now, when I believe he is more hopeful of himself than he has ever been, and even speaks of himself with a kind of
39confidence, the idea that he might need that old employment, and not find it, gives him a sudden sense of terror, like
40that which one may fancy strikes to the heart of a lost child." He looked like his illustration, as he raised his eyes
41to Mr. Lorry's face. "But may not--mind! I ask for information, as a plodding man of business who only deals with such
42material objects as guineas, shillings, and bank-notes--may not the retention of the thing involve the retention of the
43idea? If the thing were gone, my dear Manette, might not the fear go with it? In short, is it not a concession to the
44misgiving, to keep the forge?" There was another silence. "You see, too," said the Doctor, tremulously, "it is such an
45old companion." "I would not keep it," said Mr. Lorry, shaking his head; for he gained in firmness as he saw the Doctor
46disquieted. "I would recommend him to sacrifice it. I only want your authority. I am sure it does no good. Come! Give me
47your authority, like a dear good man. For his daughter's sake, my dear Manette!" Very strange to see what a struggle
48there was within him! "In her name, then, let it be done; I sanction it. But, I would not take it away while he was
49present. Let it be removed when he is not there; let him miss his old companion after an absence." Mr. Lorry readily
50engaged for that, and the conference was ended. They passed the day in the country, and the Doctor was quite restored.
51On the three following days he remained perfectly well, and on the fourteenth day he went away to join Lucie and her
52husband. The precaution that had been taken to account for his silence, Mr. Lorry had previously explained to him, and
53he had written to Lucie in accordance with it, and she had no suspicions. On the night of the day on which he left the
54house, Mr. Lorry went into his room with a chopper, saw, chisel, and hammer, attended by Miss Pross carrying a light.
55There, with closed doors, and in a mysterious and guilty manner, Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemaker's bench to pieces, while
56Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder--for which, indeed, in her grimness, she was no
57unsuitable figure. The burning of the body (previously reduced to pieces convenient for the purpose) was commenced
58without delay in the kitchen fire; and the tools, shoes, and leather, were buried in the garden. So wicked do
59destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their
60deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.
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