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1Such a heart Madame Defarge carried under her rough robe. Carelessly worn, it was a becoming robe enough, in a certain
2weird way, and her dark hair looked rich under her coarse red cap. Lying hidden in her bosom, was a loaded pistol. Lying
3hidden at her waist, was a sharpened dagger. Thus accoutred, and walking with the confident tread of such a character,
4and with the supple freedom of a woman who had habitually walked in her girlhood, bare-foot and bare-legged, on the
5brown sea-sand, Madame Defarge took her way along the streets. Now, when the journey of the travelling coach, at that
6very moment waiting for the completion of its load, had been planned out last night, the difficulty of taking Miss Pross
7in it had much engaged Mr. Lorry's attention. It was not merely desirable to avoid overloading the coach, but it was of
8the highest importance that the time occupied in examining it and its passengers, should be reduced to the utmost; since
9their escape might depend on the saving of only a few seconds here and there. Finally, he had proposed, after anxious
10consideration, that Miss Pross and Jerry, who were at liberty to leave the city, should leave it at three o'clock in the
11lightest-wheeled conveyance known to that period. Unencumbered with luggage, they would soon overtake the coach, and,
12passing it and preceding it on the road, would order its horses in advance, and greatly facilitate its progress during
13the precious hours of the night, when delay was the most to be dreaded. Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering
14real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. She and Jerry had beheld the coach start, had
15known who it was that Solomon brought, had passed some ten minutes in tortures of suspense, and were now concluding
16their arrangements to follow the coach, even as Madame Defarge, taking her way through the streets, now drew nearer and
17nearer to the else-deserted lodging in which they held their consultation. "Now what do you think, Mr. Cruncher," said
18Miss Pross, whose agitation was so great that she could hardly speak, or stand, or move, or live: "what do you think of
19our not starting from this courtyard? Another carriage having already gone from here to-day, it might awaken suspicion."
20"My opinion, miss," returned Mr. Cruncher, "is as you're right. Likewise wot I'll stand by you, right or wrong." "I am
21so distracted with fear and hope for our precious creatures," said Miss Pross, wildly crying, "that I am incapable of
22forming any plan. Are you capable of forming any plan, my dear good Mr. Cruncher?" "Respectin' a future spear o' life,
23miss," returned Mr. Cruncher, "I hope so. Respectin' any present use o' this here blessed old head o' mine, I think not.
24Would you do me the favour, miss, to take notice o' two promises and wows wot it is my wishes fur to record in this here
25crisis?" "Oh, for gracious sake!" cried Miss Pross, still wildly crying, "record them at once, and get them out of the
26way, like an excellent man." "First," said Mr. Cruncher, who was all in a tremble, and who spoke with an ashy and solemn
27visage, "them poor things well out o' this, never no more will I do it, never no more!" "I am quite sure, Mr. Cruncher,"
28returned Miss Pross, "that you never will do it again, whatever it is, and I beg you not to think it necessary to
29mention more particularly what it is." "No, miss," returned Jerry, "it shall not be named to you. Second: them poor
30things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more!" "Whatever
31housekeeping arrangement that may be," said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes and compose herself, "I have no doubt
32it is best that Mrs. Cruncher should have it entirely under her own superintendence.--O my poor darlings!" "I go so far
33as to say, miss, moreover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit--"and
34let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself--that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has
35undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time."
36"There, there, there! I hope she is, my dear man," cried the distracted Miss Pross, "and I hope she finds it answering
37her expectations." "Forbid it," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with additional solemnity, additional slowness, and additional
38tendency to hold forth and hold out, "as anything wot I have ever said or done should be wisited on my earnest wishes
39for them poor creeturs now! Forbid it as we shouldn't all flop (if it was anyways conwenient) to get 'em out o' this
40here dismal risk! Forbid it, miss! Wot I say, for-bid it!" This was Mr. Cruncher's conclusion after a protracted but
41vain endeavour to find a better one. And still Madame Defarge, pursuing her way along the streets, came nearer and
42nearer. "If we ever get back to our native land," said Miss Pross, "you may rely upon my telling Mrs. Cruncher as much
43as I may be able to remember and understand of what you have so impressively said; and at all events you may be sure
44that I shall bear witness to your being thoroughly in earnest at this dreadful time. Now, pray let us think! My esteemed
45Mr. Cruncher, let us think!" Still, Madame Defarge, pursuing her way along the streets, came nearer and nearer. "If you
46were to go before," said Miss Pross, "and stop the vehicle and horses from coming here, and were to wait somewhere for
47me; wouldn't that be best?" Mr. Cruncher thought it might be best. "Where could you wait for me?" asked Miss Pross. Mr.
48Cruncher was so bewildered that he could think of no locality but Temple Bar. Alas! Temple Bar was hundreds of miles
49away, and Madame Defarge was drawing very near indeed. "By the cathedral door," said Miss Pross. "Would it be much out
50of the way, to take me in, near the great cathedral door between the two towers?" "No, miss," answered Mr. Cruncher.
51"Then, like the best of men," said Miss Pross, "go to the posting-house straight, and make that change." "I am
52doubtful," said Mr. Cruncher, hesitating and shaking his head, "about leaving of you, you see. We don't know what may
53happen." "Heaven knows we don't," returned Miss Pross, "but have no fear for me. Take me in at the cathedral, at Three
54o'Clock, or as near it as you can, and I am sure it will be better than our going from here. I feel certain of it.
55There! Bless you, Mr. Cruncher! Think-not of me, but of the lives that may depend on both of us!" This exordium, and
56Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonised entreaty clasping his, decided Mr. Cruncher. With an encouraging nod or two, he
57immediately went out to alter the arrangements, and left her by herself to follow as she had proposed. The having
58originated a precaution which was already in course of execution, was a great relief to Miss Pross. The necessity of
59composing her appearance so that it should attract no special notice in the streets, was another relief. She looked at
60her watch, and it was twenty minutes past two. She had no time to lose, but must get ready at once. Afraid, in her
61extreme perturbation, of the loneliness of the deserted rooms, and of half-imagined faces peeping from behind every open
62door in them, Miss Pross got a basin of cold water and began laving her eyes, which were swollen and red. Haunted by her
63feverish apprehensions, she could not bear to have her sight obscured for a minute at a time by the dripping water, but
64constantly paused and looked round to see that there was no one watching her. In one of those pauses she recoiled and
65cried out, for she saw a figure standing in the room. The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the
66feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.
67Madame Defarge looked coldly at her, and said, "The wife of Evrémonde; where is she?" It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind
68that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. Her first act was to shut them. There were four in
69the room, and she shut them all. She then placed herself before the door of the chamber which Lucie had occupied.
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