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chary of trusting themselves to the saint’s mercies. The lamps
across his streets had a portentously elastic swing with them.
Madame Defarge, with her arms folded, sat in the morning light and
heat, contemplating the wine-shop and the street. In both, there
were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with
a manifest sense of power enthroned on their distress. The raggedest
nightcap, awry on the wretchedest head, had this crooked
significance in it: “I know how hard it has grown for me, the wearer
of this, to support life in myself; but do you know how easy it has
grown for me, the wearer of this, to destroy life in you?” Every
lean bare arm, that had been without work before, had this work always
ready for it now, that it could strike. The fingers of the knitting
women were vicious, with the experience that they could tear. There
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blows had told mightily on the expression.
Madame Defarge sat observing it, with such suppressed approval as
was to be desired in the leader of the Saint Antoine women. One of her
sisterhood knitted beside her. The short, rather plump wife of a
starved grocer, and the mother of two children withal, this lieutenant
had already earned the complimentary name of The Vengeance.
“Hark!” said The Vengeance. “Listen, then! Who comes?”
As if a train of powder laid from the outermost bound of Saint
Antoine Quarter to the wine-shop door, had been suddenly fired, a
fast-spreading murmur came rushing along.
“It is Defarge,” said madame. “Silence, patriots!”
Defarge came in breathless, pulled off a red cap he wore, and looked
around him! “Listen, everywhere!” said madame again. “Listen to him!
Defarge stood, panting, against a background of eager eyes and open
mouths, formed outside the door; all those within the wine-shop had
sprung to their feet.
“Say then, my husband. What is it?”
“News from the other world!”
“How, then?” cried madame, contemptuously. “The other world?”
“Does everybody here recall old Foulon, who told the famished people
that they might eat grass, and who died, and went to Hell?”
“Everybody!” from all throats.
“The news is of him. He is among us!”
“Among us!” from the universal throat again. “And dead?”
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they have found him alive, hiding in the country, and have brought him
in. I have seen him but now, on his way to the Hotel de Ville, a
prisoner. I have said that he had reason to fear us. Say all! Had he
reason?”
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