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"Lucie Manette, only daughter of Doctor Manette, the good

physician who sits there."

This answer had a happy effect upon the audience. Cries in

exaltation of the well-known good physician rent the hall. So

capriciously were the people moved, that tears immediately rolled

down several ferocious countenances which had been glaring at the

prisoner a moment before, as if with impatience to pluck him out

into the streets and kill him.

On these few steps of his dangerous way, Charles Darnay had set

his foot according to Doctor Manette's reiterated instructions.

The same cautious counsel directed every step that lay before

him, and had prepared every inch of his road.

The President asked, why had he returned to France when he did,

and not sooner?