`It is enough that you return straight to the Conciergerie, and will know to-morrow. You are summoned for to-morrow.'

Dr. Manette, whom this visitation had so turned into stone, that he stood with the lamp in his hand, as if he were a statue made to hold it, moved after these words were spoken, put the lamp down, and confronting the speaker, and taking him, not ungently, by the loose front of his red woollen shirt, said:

`You know him, you have said. Do you know me?'

`Yes, I know you, Citizen Doctor.'

`We all know you, Citizen Doctor,' said the other three.

He looked abstractedly from one to another, and said, in a lower voice, after a pause:

`Will you answer his question to me then? How does this happen?'

`Citizen Doctor,' said the first, reluctantly, `he has been denounced to the Section of Saint Antoine. This citizen,' pointing out the second who had entered, `is from Saint Antoine.'

The citizen here indicated nodded his head, and added: `He is accused by Saint Antoine.'

`Of what?' asked the Doctor.

`Citizen Doctor,' said the first, with his former reluctance, `ask no more. If the Republic demands sacrifices from you, without doubt you as a good patriot will be happy to make them. The Republic goes before all. The People is supreme. Evrémonde, we are pressed.'

`One word,' the Doctor entreated. `Will you tell me who denounced him?'

`It is against rule,' answered the first; `but you can ask Him of Saint Antoine here.'

The Doctor turned his eyes upon that man. Who moved uneasily on his feet, rubbed his beard a little, and at length said:

`Well! Truly it is against rule. But he is denounced-and gravely-by the Citizen and Citizeness Defarge. And by one other.

`What other?'

`Do you ask, Citizen Doctor?'

`Yes.'

`Then,' said he of Saint Antoine, with a strange look, `you will be answered to-morrow. Now, I am dumb!'

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