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The five had had, it is true, no audience to lengthen their

proceedings, for when he and Doctor Manette emerged from the

gate, there was a great crowd about it, in which there seemed to

be every face he had seen in Court--except two, for which he

looked in vain. On his coming out, the concourse made at him

anew, weeping, embracing, and shouting, all by turns and all

together, until the very tide of the river on the bank of which

the mad scene was acted, seemed to run mad, like the people on

the shore.