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1Calm in Storm Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his absence. So much of what had
2happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not
3until long afterwards, when France and she were far apart, did she know that eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of
4both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace; that four days and nights had been darkened by this deed of
5horror; and that the air around her had been tainted by the slain. She only knew that there had been an attack upon the
6prisons, that all political prisoners had been in danger, and that some had been dragged out by the crowd and murdered.
7To Mr. Lorry, the Doctor communicated under an injunction of secrecy on which he had no need to dwell, that the crowd
8had taken him through a scene of carnage to the prison of La Force. That, in the prison he had found a self-appointed
9Tribunal sitting, before which the prisoners were brought singly, and by which they were rapidly ordered to be put forth
10to be massacred, or to be released, or (in a few cases) to be sent back to their cells. That, presented by his
11conductors to this Tribunal, he had announced himself by name and profession as having been for eighteen years a secret
12and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille; that, one of the body so sitting in judgment had risen and identified him, and
13that this man was Defarge. That, hereupon he had ascertained, through the registers on the table, that his son-in-law
14was among the living prisoners, and had pleaded hard to the Tribunal--of whom some members were asleep and some awake,
15some dirty with murder and some clean, some sober and some not--for his life and liberty. That, in the first frantic
16greetings lavished on himself as a notable sufferer under the overthrown system, it had been accorded to him to have
17Charles Darnay brought before the lawless Court, and examined. That, he seemed on the point of being at once released,
18when the tide in his favour met with some unexplained check (not intelligible to the Doctor), which led to a few words
19of secret conference. That, the man sitting as President had then informed Doctor Manette that the prisoner must remain
20in custody, but should, for his sake, be held inviolate in safe custody. That, immediately, on a signal, the prisoner
21was removed to the interior of the prison again; but, that he, the Doctor, had then so strongly pleaded for permission
22to remain and assure himself that his son-in-law was, through no malice or mischance, delivered to the concourse whose
23murderous yells outside the gate had often drowned the proceedings, that he had obtained the permission, and had
24remained in that Hall of Blood until the danger was over. The sights he had seen there, with brief snatches of food and
25sleep by intervals, shall remain untold. The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less
26than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces. One prisoner there was, he said, who had been discharged
27into the street free, but at whom a mistaken savage had thrust a pike as he passed out. Being besought to go to him and
28dress the wound, the Doctor had passed out at the same gate, and had found him in the arms of a company of Samaritans,
29who were seated on the bodies of their victims. With an inconsistency as monstrous as anything in this awful nightmare,
30they had helped the healer, and tended the wounded man with the gentlest solicitude--had made a litter for him and
31escorted him carefully from the spot--had then caught up their weapons and plunged anew into a butchery so dreadful,
32that the Doctor had covered his eyes with his hands, and swooned away in the midst of it. As Mr. Lorry received these
33confidences, and as he watched the face of his friend now sixty-two years of age, a misgiving arose within him that such
34dread experiences would revive the old danger. But, he had never seen his friend in his present aspect: he had never at
35all known him in his present character. For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and
36power. For the first time he felt that in that sharp fire, he had slowly forged the iron which could break the prison
37door of his daughter's husband, and deliver him. "It all tended to a good end, my friend; it was not mere waste and
38ruin. As my beloved child was helpful in restoring me to myself, I will be helpful now in restoring the dearest part of
39herself to her; by the aid of Heaven I will do it!" Thus, Doctor Manette. And when Jarvis Lorry saw the kindled eyes,
40the resolute face, the calm strong look and bearing of the man whose life always seemed to him to have been stopped,
41like a clock, for so many years, and then set going again with an energy which had lain dormant during the cessation of
42its usefulness, he believed. Greater things than the Doctor had at that time to contend with, would have yielded before
43his persevering purpose. While he kept himself in his place, as a physician, whose business was with all degrees of
44mankind, bond and free, rich and poor, bad and good, he used his personal influence so wisely, that he was soon the
45inspecting physician of three prisons, and among them of La Force. He could now assure Lucie that her husband was no
46longer confined alone, but was mixed with the general body of prisoners; he saw her husband weekly, and brought sweet
47messages to her, straight from his lips; sometimes her husband himself sent a letter to her (though never by the
48Doctor's hand), but she was not permitted to write to him: for, among the many wild suspicions of plots in the prisons,
49the wildest of all pointed at emigrants who were known to have made friends or permanent connections abroad. This new
50life of the Doctor's was an anxious life, no doubt; still, the sagacious Mr. Lorry saw that there was a new sustaining
51pride in it. Nothing unbecoming tinged the pride; it was a natural and worthy one; but he observed it as a curiosity.
52The Doctor knew, that up to that time, his imprisonment had been associated in the minds of his daughter and his friend,
53with his personal affliction, deprivation, and weakness. Now that this was changed, and he knew himself to be invested
54through that old trial with forces to which they both looked for Charles's ultimate safety and deliverance, he became so
55far exalted by the change, that he took the lead and direction, and required them as the weak, to trust to him as the
56strong. The preceding relative positions of himself and Lucie were reversed, yet only as the liveliest gratitude and
57affection could reverse them, for he could have had no pride but in rendering some service to her who had rendered so
58much to him. "All curious to see," thought Mr. Lorry, in his amiably shrewd way, "but all natural and right; so, take
59the lead, my dear friend, and keep it; it couldn't be in better hands." But, though the Doctor tried hard, and never
60ceased trying, to get Charles Darnay set at liberty, or at least to get him brought to trial, the public current of the
61time set too strong and fast for him. The new era began; the king was tried, doomed, and beheaded; the Republic of
62Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms; the black flag waved
63night and day from the great towers of Notre Dame; three hundred thousand men, summoned to rise against the tyrants of
64the earth, rose from all the varying soils of France, as if the dragon's teeth had been sown broadcast, and had yielded
65fruit equally on hill and plain, on rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of the South and under the
66clouds of the North, in fell and forest, in the vineyards and the olive-grounds and among the cropped grass and the
67stubble of the corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea-shore. What private
68solicitude could rear itself against the deluge of the Year One of Liberty--the deluge rising from below, not falling
69from above, and with the windows of Heaven shut, not opened!
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