The President required the name of that citizen? The accused

explained that the citizen was his first witness. He also referred

with confidence to the citizen’s letter, which had been taken from

him at the Barrier, but which he did not doubt would be found

among the papers then before the President.

The doctor had taken care that it should be therehad assured

him that it would be thereand at this stage of the proceedings it

was produced and read Citizen Gabelle was called to confirm it,

and did so. Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy and

politeness, that in the pressure of business imposed on the

Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it

had to deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the

Abbayein fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal’s patriotic

remembranceuntil three days ago; when he had been

summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury’s

declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was

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answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen

Evremonde, called Darnay.

Doctor Manette was next questioned. His high personal

popularity, and the clearness of his answers, made a great

impression: but, as he proceeded, as he showed that the accused

was his first friend on his release from his long impris