remember, and I had better not take it into the prison.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t know; I prefer not to do so. Now, take this paper that
Doctor Manette has carried about him. It is a similar certificate,
enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass
the barrier and the frontier. You see?”
“Yes!”
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“Perhaps he obtained it as his last and utmost precaution
against evil, yesterday. When is it dated? But no matter; don’t stay
to look; put it up carefully with mine and your own. Now, observe!
I never doubted until within this hour or two, that he had, or could
have such a paper. It is good, until recalled. But it may be soon
recalled, and I have reason to think, will be.”
“They are not in danger?”
“They are in great danger. They are in danger of denunciation
by Madame Defarge. I know it from her own lips. I have overheard
words of that woman’s, tonight, which have presented their
danger to me in strong colours. I have lost no time, and since then,
I have seen the spy. He confirms me. He knows that a woodsawyer
living by the prison-wall, is under the control of the
Defarges, and has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his
having seen Her”he never mentioned Lucie’s name“making
signs and signals to prisoners. It is easy to foresee that the
pretence will be the commo