elded the

sensation. Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the

interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit,

the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.

Silence in the court! Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not

Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and

jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious,

excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his

having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways,

assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said

serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by

coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene,

illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French

Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise eviladverbiously,

revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our

said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation

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to send to Canada and North America. This much, Jerry, with his

head becoming more and more spiky as the law terms bristled it,

made out with huge satisfaction, and so arrived circuitously at the

understanding that the aforesaid, and over and over again

aforesaid, Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial;

that the jury were swearing i