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He still had his wig and gown on, and he said, squaring himself

at his late client to that degree that he squeezed the innocent

Mr. Lorry clean out of the group: "I am glad to have brought you

off with honour, Mr. Darnay. It was an infamous prosecution,

grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that

account."

"You have laid me under an obligation to you for life--in two

senses," said his late client, taking his hand.

"I have done my best for you, Mr. Darnay; and my best is as good

as another man's, I believe."

It clearly being incumbent on some one to say, "Much better," Mr.

Lorry said it; perhaps not quite disinterestedly, but with the

interested object of squeezing himself back again.

"You think so?" said Mr. Stryver. "Well! you have been present

all day, and you ought to know. You are a man of business, too."