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He noticed that she once or twice whispered in his ear, and that

she seemed to be his wife; but, what he most noticed in the two

figures was, that although they were posted as close to himself

as they could be, they never looked towards him. They seemed to

be waiting for something with a dogged determination, and they

looked at the Jury, but at nothing else. Under the President sat

Doctor Manette, in his usual quiet dress. As well as the prisoner

could see, he and Mr. Lorry were the only men there, unconnected

with the Tribunal, who wore their usual clothes, and had not

assumed the coarse garb of the Carmagnole.

Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public

prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the

Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain

of Death. It was nothing that the decree bore date since his

return to France. There he was, and there was the decree; he had

been taken in France, and his head was demanded.