throw a shadow on me and on all my hopes.”

“Tut, tut!” said Mr. Lorry; “what is this despondency in the

brave little beast? A shadow indeed! No substance in it, Lucie.”

But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon

himself, for all that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.

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Chapter XXXIV

CALM IN STORM

D

octor Manette did not return until the morning of the

fourth day of his absence. So much of what had happened

in that dreadful time as could be kept from the

knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not until

long afterwards, when France and she were far apart, did she

know that eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and

all ages had been killed by the populace; that four days and nights

had been darkened by this deed of horror; and that the air around

her had been tainted by the slain. She only knew that there had

been an attack upon the prisons, that all political prisoners had

been in danger, and that some had been dragged out by the crowd

and murdered.

To Mr. Lorry, the Doctor communicated under an injunction of

secrecy on which he had no need to dwell, that the crowd had

taken him through a scene of carnage to the prison La Force.

That, in the prison he had found a self-appointed Tribunal sitting,

before whi