Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-09-08

| lHdJ l. nave bn6 DOHUI Vi CuClioutuS bUiue III
teresting associations with your name.
"Indeed ?" said Defarge with much indf-
ference.
| eyes indeed. When Doctor Manette was re-
leased, you his old domestic had the charge of
him, l know He was delivered to you You
see am informed of the circumstances !: -
"Such is the fact, certainly" SAID Dearge.
He had had it conveyed to him, IN an accidental
touch of his wlfe's elbow as She knitted and
warbled, that he would do best to answer, but
always with brevity
1T was to you," said the spy, " that his
daughter came aud it was from your care that
his daughter took him, accompanied by neat
brown monsieur how is be called Pin little
wig-Lerry-of the bank Of Tellson and Com
pany-over to England ~
'Such is the fact. Repeated Dslargo =
" Very interesting remembrances said the
spy. 81 have known Doctor Manette and his
daughter, in England"
i" Yes? said Dcfarge.
(" You don't hear much about them now,'
said the spy.
"No," said Defarge.
/" In effect, madame struck in, looking up
. from her work and her little song, we never
hear about them. We received the news Of their
safe arrival and perhaps another letter, or per-
haps two but since then they have gradually
t taken their road in lite-we, ours-and we have
. held no correspondence.
" Perfectly so, madame" replied the spy.
1 "She is going to be married.
t " Going?' echoed madame. She was pretty
f enough to have been married long ago. You
t English are cold, it seems to me-.
d ooh! You know | am English. :
e 81 perceive you tongue is" returned mad
Y ame "and what the tongue is, suppose the
0 man is
a lie did not take tho Identification as a com
;, pliment; but he made the best of it. and turn
ed it off with laugh. After spping his cog
r nae to the end, he added:
d "Yes, Miss Manette is going to be married.
But not to an Engishman to one who, like
herself, is French by birth. And spanking Of
Gaspard (ah, poor Gaspard 1t was cruel, cru
el y it is curious thing that she is going to
marry the nephew of Monsieur the Marquis,
for whom Gaspard was exalted to that height
of SO many feet in other words, the present
0 Marquis. But be lives unknown in England
he is no Marquis there; he is Mr. Charles Dar-
o nay. D'AulnaiS is the namo Of lis mother s
family"
: Madame Defarge knitted steadily, but the in,
< tclligence had palrabas effect .3p9an- ter has
band. Do whot he would behind the little
), counter, as to the striking Of q light and the
lighting of his pipe, he was troubled, and his
h hand was not trust, worthy. The sly would
o have been no spy if he had failed to see it, OF
;. record it in his mind.
e Having made, at least, this one hit whatever
l. it might prove to be worth, and no customers
1t coming in to help him to any other. Mr.. Barsac
r paid for what he had drunk, and took his leave
taking occasion to say, in genteel manner, be
bs fore he departed that he looked forward to the
ID plcasureot seeing Monsieur and Madame Defargt
ut again. For some minutes after he had omerg
n cd into the outer presence of Saint Antoine, th'
n husband and wife remained exactly as he hat
left them, lest he should come back,
I'd " Can it be true" said DeilrSe, in low
es voice, looking down at his wifa as he stoot
nd smoking with his hand on the back of her chai
id "what he has said Of Ma 'amselt Manette ?"
" As he has said it, returned madame, lift
,ft ing his eyebrows little, it is probably false
x Bnt it may be true"
ty "lt it is D4lars9 bagan and stopped.
We If it is? repeated his vile.
lis ."-And if it does come, while we live to Sc
&C. it triumph hope, for her sake, Destiny wi
keep her husband out of France
{" Her husbands destiny" said Madame Dc
iarge, with her usual composure, " will tax
,e- him where he is to 60, and will lead him to til
end that is to end him. That is all know"
he "But it is very strange--now, at least is
at, not very strange DsfArge rather plead
ID ing with his wife to induce her to adm
nd it, that after all our sympathy for Nor
sieur her father and herself her husband S nan
ID. should be prescribed und,r your hand at tn
so moment by the side of that internal dogs wh
has just llft u.s." "
led stranger things than that will happen wht
Ike it does come' answered madame. 81 ha'
I'M them both here, of q certainty and they a,
both hero for their merits that is enough" p"
,ut She rolled up her knitting when she sa
those words, and presently took the rose out
tina handkerchief that was wound about hi
,ad head. Either Saint Antoine had an INSTINCT,
nat sense that the Objectionable decoration w
lch gone, or st. Antoine was on the watch for i
ing disappearance /; howboit, the Saint took coura;
to lounge in very shortly afterward, and tt
Ak wine-shop recovered it's habitual aspect.
In the evening, at which season of all othe
tile Saint Antoine turned himself inside out, al
of sat on door-steps and window lodges, and can
the to the corners Of vile streets and courts for
md breath of air, Madame Doflrge, with her wo
the in her hand, was accustomed to pass from pla
to place, and from group to group; Mission
not ry-thcre were many like her--such as t
his world will do well never to breed again. 4
ter, the women knitted. They knitted worthle
ad- things but the mechanical wprk was q m
her chancal substitute Tor eating and drinking
'ver the hands moved for the jaws and the digesti
apparatus if the bony fingers had been sti
Al a 4 E r..
De- pinchcd.
But as the fingers went the eyes went, a
:. ! the thoughts. And as Madame Deiarge mov