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It is Jarvis Lorry who has replied to all the previous questions.

It is Jarvis Lorry who has alighted and stands with his hand on

the coach door, replying to a group of officials. They leisurely

walk round the carriage and leisurely mount the box, to look at

what little luggage it carries on the roof; the country-people

hanging about, press nearer to the coach doors and greedily stare

in; a little child, carried by its mother, has its short arm held

out for it, that it may touch the wife of an aristocrat who has

gone to the Guillotine.

"Behold your papers, Jarvis Lorry, countersigned."

"One can depart, citizen?"

"One can depart. Forward, my postilions! A good journey!"

"I salute you, citizens.--And the first danger passed!"

These are again the words of Jarvis Lorry, as he clasps his

hands, and looks upward. There is terror in the carriage, there

is weeping, there is the heavy breathing of the insensible

traveller.