own several ferocious countenances which

had been glaring at the prisoner a moment before, as if with

impatience to pluck him out into the streets and kill him.

On these few steps of his dangerous way, Charles Darnay had

set his foot according to Doctor Manette’s reiterated instructions.

The same cautious counsel directed every step that lay before him,

and had prepared every inch of his road.

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The President asked, why had he returned to France when he

did, and not sooner?

He had not returned sooner, he replied, simply because he had

no means of living in France, save those he had resigned; whereas,

in England, he lived by giving instruction in the French language

and literature He had returned when he did, on the pressing and

written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life

was endangered by his absence. He had come back, to save a

citizen’s life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal

hazard, to the truth. Was that criminal in the eyes of the Republic?

The populace cried enthusiastically, “No!” and the President

rang his bell to quiet them. Which it did not, for they continued to

cry “No!” until they left off, of their own will.