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broaching to Monseigneur, his devices for blowing the people up

and exterminating them from the face of the earth, and doing

without them: and for accomplishing many similar objects akin in

their nature to the abolition of eagles by sprinkling salt on the tails

of the race. Him, Darnay heard, with a particular feeling of

objection; and Darnay stood divided between going away that he

might hear no more, and remaining to interpose his word, when

the thing that was to be, went on to shape itself out.

The House approached Mr. Lorry, and laying a soiled and

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unopened letter before him, asked if he had yet discovered any

traces of the person to whom it was addressed? The House laid

the letter down so close to Darnay that he saw the directionthe

more quickly because it was his own right name. The address,

turned into English, ran:

“Very pressing. To Monsieur heretofore the Marquis St.

Evremonde, of France. Confided to the cares of Messrs. Tellson

and Co., Bankers, London, England.”

On the marriage morning, Dr. Manette had made it his one

urgent and express request to Charles Darnay, that the secret of

his name should beunless he, the Doctor, dissolved the

obligationkept inviolate between them. Nobody else knew it to

be his name; his own wife had no suspicion of the fact; Mr. Lorry

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