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1Triumph The dread tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth
2every evening, and were read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The standard gaoler-joke was,
3"Come out and listen to the Evening Paper, you inside there!" "Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay!" So at last began the
4Evening Paper at La Force. When a name was called, its owner stepped apart into a spot reserved for those who were
5announced as being thus fatally recorded. Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, had reason to know the usage; he had seen
6hundreds pass away so. His bloated gaoler, who wore spectacles to read with, glanced over them to assure himself that he
7had taken his place, and went through the list, making a similar short pause at each name. There were twenty-three
8names, but only twenty were responded to; for one of the prisoners so summoned had died in gaol and been forgotten, and
9two had already been guillotined and forgotten. The list was read, in the vaulted chamber where Darnay had seen the
10associated prisoners on the night of his arrival. Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature
11he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold. There were hurried words of farewell and kindness, but
12the parting was soon over. It was the incident of every day, and the society of La Force were engaged in the preparation
13of some games of forfeits and a little concert, for that evening. They crowded to the grates and shed tears there; but,
14twenty places in the projected entertainments had to be refilled, and the time was, at best, short to the lock-up hour,
15when the common rooms and corridors would be delivered over to the great dogs who kept watch there through the night.
16The prisoners were far from insensible or unfeeling; their ways arose out of the condition of the time. Similarly,
17though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to
18brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly
19shaken public mind. In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible
20passing inclination to die of it. And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to
21evoke them. The passage to the Conciergerie was short and dark; the night in its vermin-haunted cells was long and cold.
22Next day, fifteen prisoners were put to the bar before Charles Darnay's name was called. All the fifteen were condemned,
23and the trials of the whole occupied an hour and a half. "Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay," was at length arraigned.
24His judges sat upon the Bench in feathered hats; but the rough red cap and tricoloured cockade was the head-dress
25otherwise prevailing. Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of
26things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men. The lowest, cruelest, and worst populace of a city,
27never without its quantity of low, cruel, and bad, were the directing spirits of the scene: noisily commenting,
28applauding, disapproving, anticipating, and precipitating the result, without a check. Of the men, the greater part were
29armed in various ways; of the women, some wore knives, some daggers, some ate and drank as they looked on, many knitted.
30Among these last, was one, with a spare piece of knitting under her arm as she worked. She was in a front row, by the
31side of a man whom he had never seen since his arrival at the Barrier, but whom he directly remembered as Defarge. He
32noticed that she once or twice whispered in his ear, and that she seemed to be his wife; but, what he most noticed in
33the two figures was, that although they were posted as close to himself as they could be, they never looked towards him.
34They seemed to be waiting for something with a dogged determination, and they looked at the Jury, but at nothing else.
35Under the President sat Doctor Manette, in his usual quiet dress. As well as the prisoner could see, he and Mr. Lorry
36were the only men there, unconnected with the Tribunal, who wore their usual clothes, and had not assumed the coarse
37garb of the Carmagnole. Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public prosecutor as an emigrant, whose
38life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain of Death. It was nothing that
39the decree bore date since his return to France. There he was, and there was the decree; he had been taken in France,
40and his head was demanded. "Take off his head!" cried the audience. "An enemy to the Republic!" The President rang his
41bell to silence those cries, and asked the prisoner whether it was not true that he had lived many years in England?
42Undoubtedly it was. Was he not an emigrant then? What did he call himself? Not an emigrant, he hoped, within the sense
43and spirit of the law. Why not? the President desired to know. Because he had voluntarily relinquished a title that was
44distasteful to him, and a station that was distasteful to him, and had left his country--he submitted before the word
45emigrant in the present acceptation by the Tribunal was in use--to live by his own industry in England, rather than on
46the industry of the overladen people of France. What proof had he of this? He handed in the names of two witnesses;
47Theophile Gabelle, and Alexandre Manette. But he had married in England? the President reminded him. True, but not an
48English woman. A citizeness of France? Yes. By birth. Her name and family? "Lucie Manette, only daughter of Doctor
49Manette, the good physician who sits there." This answer had a happy effect upon the audience. Cries in exaltation of
50the well-known good physician rent the hall. So capriciously were the people moved, that tears immediately rolled down
51several ferocious countenances which had been glaring at the prisoner a moment before, as if with impatience to pluck
52him out into the streets and kill him. On these few steps of his dangerous way, Charles Darnay had set his foot
53according to Doctor Manette's reiterated instructions. The same cautious counsel directed every step that lay before
54him, and had prepared every inch of his road. The President asked, why had he returned to France when he did, and not
55sooner? He had not returned sooner, he replied, simply because he had no means of living in France, save those he had
56resigned; whereas, in England, he lived by giving instruction in the French language and literature. He had returned
57when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by
58his absence. He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the
59truth. Was that criminal in the eyes of the Republic? The populace cried enthusiastically, "No!" and the President rang
60his bell to quiet them. Which it did not, for they continued to cry "No!" until they left off, of their own will. The
61President required the name of that citizen. The accused explained that the citizen was his first witness. He also
62referred with confidence to the citizen's letter, which had been taken from him at the Barrier, but which he did not
63doubt would be found among the papers then before the President. The Doctor had taken care that it should be there--had
64assured him that it would be there--and at this stage of the proceedings it was produced and read. Citizen Gabelle was
65called to confirm it, and did so. Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the pressure of
66business imposed on the Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it had to deal, he had been
67slightly overlooked in his prison of the Abbaye--in fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic
68remembrance--until three days ago; when he had been summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury's
69declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the
70citizen Evrémonde, called Darnay.
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