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"Take off his head!" cried the audience. "An enemy to the

Republic!"

The President rang his bell to silence those cries, and asked the

prisoner whether it was not true that he had lived many years in

England?

Undoubtedly it was.

Was he not an emigrant then? What did he call himself?

Not an emigrant, he hoped, within the sense and spirit of the

law.

Why not? the President desired to know.

Because he had voluntarily relinquished a title that was

distasteful to him, and a station that was distasteful to him,

and had left his country--he submitted before the word emigrant

in the present acceptation by the Tribunal was in use--to live by

his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the

overladen people of France.

What proof had he of this?

He handed in the names of two witnesses; Theophile Gabelle, and

Alexandre Manette.

But he had married in England? the President reminded him.

True, but not an English woman.

A citizeness of France?

Yes. By birth.

Her name and family?