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| Three voices. Ernest Defarge, wine-vendor of St. Antoine, Therese Defarge, his wife, and Alexandre Manette, physician. | |
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| A great uproar took place in the court, and in the midst of it, Doctor Manette was seen, pale and trembling, standing where he had been seated. |
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| President, I indignantly protest to you that this is a forgery and a fraud. Who and where is the false conspirator who says that I denounce the husband of my child! | |
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| Citizen Manette, be tranquil. To fail in submission to the authority of the Tribunal would be to put yourself out of Law. If the Republic should demand of you the sacrifice of your child herself, you would have no duty but to sacrifice her. Listen to what is to follow. In the meanwhile, be silent! | |
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| Defarge stands up and speaks |
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| I knew that this prisoner, of whom I speak, had been confined in a cell known as One Hundred and Five, North Tower. As I serve my gun that day, I resolve, when the place shall fall, to examine that cell. In a hole in the chimney, where a stone has been worked out and replaced, I find a written paper. This is that written paper. This is the writing of Doctor Manette. I confide this paper, in the writing of Doctor Manette, to the hands of the President. | |
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| Let it be read. | |
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