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1The sort of interest with which this man was stared and breathed at, was not a sort that elevated humanity. Had he stood
2in peril of a less horrible sentence--had there been a chance of any one of its savage details being spared--by just so
3much would he have lost in his fascination. The form that was to be doomed to be so shamefully mangled, was the sight;
4the immortal creature that was to be so butchered and torn asunder, yielded the sensation. Whatever gloss the various
5spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the
6root of it, Ogreish. Silence in the court! Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing
7him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so
8forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted
9Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by
10coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said
11French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis
12what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North
13America. This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more spiky as the law terms bristled it, made out with huge
14satisfaction, and so arrived circuitously at the understanding that the aforesaid, and over and over again aforesaid,
15Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial; that the jury were swearing in; and that Mr. Attorney-General was
16making ready to speak. The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by
17everybody there, neither flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it. He was quiet and attentive;
18watched the opening proceedings with a grave interest; and stood with his hands resting on the slab of wood before him,
19so composedly, that they had not displaced a leaf of the herbs with which it was strewn. The court was all bestrewn with
20herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever. Over the prisoner's head there was a
21mirror, to throw the light down upon him. Crowds of the wicked and the wretched had been reflected in it, and had passed
22from its surface and this earth's together. Haunted in a most ghastly manner that abominable place would have been, if
23the glass could ever have rendered back its reflections, as the ocean is one day to give up its dead. Some passing
24thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind. Be that as it
25may, a change in his position making him conscious of a bar of light across his face, he looked up; and when he saw the
26glass his face flushed, and his right hand pushed the herbs away. It happened, that the action turned his face to that
27side of the court which was on his left. About on a level with his eyes, there sat, in that corner of the Judge's bench,
28two persons upon whom his look immediately rested; so immediately, and so much to the changing of his aspect, that all
29the eyes that were turned upon him, turned to them. The spectators saw in the two figures, a young lady of little more
30than twenty, and a gentleman who was evidently her father; a man of a very remarkable appearance in respect of the
31absolute whiteness of his hair, and a certain indescribable intensity of face: not of an active kind, but pondering and
32self-communing. When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were old; but when it was stirred and broken
33up--as it was now, in a moment, on his speaking to his daughter--he became a handsome man, not past the prime of life.
34His daughter had one of her hands drawn through his arm, as she sat by him, and the other pressed upon it. She had drawn
35close to him, in her dread of the scene, and in her pity for the prisoner. Her forehead had been strikingly expressive
36of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. This had been so very noticeable,
37so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper
38went about, "Who are they?" Jerry, the messenger, who had made his own observations, in his own manner, and who had been
39sucking the rust off his fingers in his absorption, stretched his neck to hear who they were. The crowd about him had
40pressed and passed the inquiry on to the nearest attendant, and from him it had been more slowly pressed and passed
41back; at last it got to Jerry: "Witnesses." "For which side?" "Against." "Against what side?" "The prisoner's." The
42Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the
43man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into
44the scaffold.
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