 of the Republic?
    The populace cried enthusiastically, »No!« and the President rang his bell
to quiet them. Which it did not, for they continued to cry »No!« until they left
off, of their own will.
    The President required the name of that citizen? The accused explained that
the citizen was his first witness. He also referred with confidence to the
citizen's letter, which had been taken from him at the Barrier, but which he did
not doubt would be found among the papers then before the President.
    The Doctor had taken care that it should be there - had assured him that it
would be there - and at this stage of the proceedings it was produced and read.
Citizen Gabelle was called to confirm it, and did so. Citizen Gabelle hinted,
with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the pressure of business imposed
on the Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it had to
deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the Abbaye - in fact, had
rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic remembrance - until three days
ago; when he had been summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the
Jury's declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was
answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen Evrémonde, called
Darnay.
    Doctor Manette was next questioned. His high personal popularity, and the
clearness of his answers, made a great impression; but, as he proceeded, as he
showed that the Accused was his first friend on his release from his long
imprisonment; that, the accused had remained in England, always faithful and
devoted to his daughter and himself in their exile; that, so far from being in
favour with the Aristocrat government there, he had actually been tried for his
life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States - as he
brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest discretion and with the
straightforward force of truth and earnestness, the Jury and the populace became
one. At last, when he appealed by name to Monsieur Lorry, an English gentleman
then and there present, who, like himself, had been a witness on that English
trial and could corroborate his account of it, the Jury declared that they had
heard enough, and that they were ready with their votes if the President were
content to receive them.
    At every vote (the Jurymen voted aloud and individually), the populace set
up a shout of applause. All the voices were in the prisoner's favour, and the
