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1、A TALE OF TWO CITIES 2 4 CHAPTER IV Congratulatory FROM the dimly lighted passages of the court the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day was straining off when Doctor Manette Lucie Manette his daughter Mr Lorry the solicitor for the defence and its counsel Mr Stryver s
2、tood gathered round Mr Charles Darnay just released congratulating him on his escape from death It would have been difficult by a far brighter light to recognise in Doctor Manette intellectual of face and upright of bearing the shoemaker of the garret in Paris Yet no one could have looked at him twi
3、ce without liking again even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully without any apparent reason While one external cause and that a reference to his long lingering agony would always a
4、s on the trial evoke this condition from the depths of his soul it was also in its nature to arise of itself and to draw a gloom over him as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun when the substance
5、was three hundred miles away Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery and to a Present beyond his misery and the sound of her voice the light of her face the touch of her hand had a strong bene
6、ficial influence with him almost always Not absolutely always for she could recall some occasions on which her power had failed but they were few and slight and she believed them over Mr Darnay had kissed her hand fervently and gratefully and had turned to Mr Stryver whom he warmly thanked Mr Stryve
7、r a man of little more than thirty but looking twenty years older than he was stout loud red bluff and free from any drawback of delicacy had a pushing way of shouldering himself morally and physically into companies and conversations that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life He still
8、had his wig and gown on and he said squaring himself at his late client to that degree that he squeezed the innocent Mr Lorry clean out of the group I am glad to have brought you off with honour Mr Darnay It was an infamous prosecution grossly infamous but not the less likely to succeed on that acco
9、unt You have laid me under an obligation to you for life in two senses said his late client taking his hand I have done my best for you Mr Darnay and my best is as good as another man s I believe It clearly being incumbent on some one to say Much better Mr Lorry said it perhaps not quite disinterest
10、edly but with the interested object of squeezing himself back again You think so said Mr Stryver Well you have been present all day and you ought to know You are a man of business too And as such quoth Mr Larry whom the counsel learned in the law had now shouldered back into the group just as he had
11、 previously shouldered him out of it as such I will appeal to Doctor Manette to break up this conference and order us all to our homes Miss Lucie looks ill Mr Darnay has had a terrible day we are worn out Speak for yourself Mr Lorry said Stryver I have a night s work to do yet Speak for yourself I s
12、peak for myself answered Mr Lorry and for Mr Darnay and for Miss Lucie and Miss Lucie do you not think I may speak for us all He asked her the question pointedly and with a glance at her father His face had become frozen as it were in a very curious look at Darnay an intent look deepening into a fro
13、wn of dislike and distrust not even unmixed with fear With this strange expression on him his thoughts had wandered away My father said Lucie softly laying her hand on his He slowly shook the shadow off and turned to her Shall we go home my father With a long breath he answered Yes The friends of th
14、e acquitted prisoner had dispersed under the impression which he himself had originated that he would not be released that night The lights were nearly all extinguished in the passages the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle and the dismal place was deserted until to morrow morning
15、s interest of gallows pillory whipping post and branding iron should re people it Walking between her father and Mr Darnay Lucie Manette passed into the open air A hackney coach was called and the father and daughter departed in it Mr Stryver had left them in the passages to shoulder his way back to
16、 the robing room Another person who had not joined the group or interchanged a word with any one of them but who had been leaning against the wall where its shadow was darkest had silently strolled out after the rest and had looked on until the coach drove away He now stepped up to where Mr Lorry and Mr Darnay stood upon the pavement So Mr Lorry Men of business may speak to Mr Darnay now Nobody had made any acknowledgment of Mr Carton s part in the day s proceedings nobody had known of it He was
