Mr. Lorry saw that they understood one another, and

proceeded.

“My dear Manette, it is the case of an old and prolonged shock,

of great acuteness and severity to the affections, the feelings, the

theas you express itthe mind. The mind. It is the case of a

shock under which the sufferer was borne down, one cannot say

for how long, because I believe he cannot calculate the time

himself, and there are no other means of getting at it. It is the case

of a shock from which the sufferer recovered, by a process that he

cannot trace himselfas I once heard him publicly relate in a

striking manner. It is the case of a shock from which he has

recovered, so completely, as to be a highly intelligent man, capable

of close application of mind, and great exertion of body, and of

constantly making fresh additions to his stock of knowledge,

which was already very large. But, unfortunately, there has been,”

he paused and took a deep breath“a slight relapse.”

The Doctor, in a low voice, asked, “Of how long duration?”

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“Nine days and nights.”

“How did it show itself? I infer,” glancing at his hands again,

“in the resumption of some old pursuit connected with the

shock?”

“That is the fact.”

“Now, did you ever see him,” asked the Doctor, distinctly and

collectedly, though in the same low voice, “en