The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-19
Half Hour Portraits of
Dickens Greatest Char
acter
Continued from page ten.)

the COLIluCAt LIZ SulfllUS Witness
with a new Vgor.
You say again that you are quite
sure that it was the prisoner whom
you saw" he demanded. The wit
ness, honorably jealous to earn the
Crowns money, was sure, quite sure.
and willing to . be as sure as the case
might demand. Mr.. Stryver, a ford,
pushing, shouldering gentleman.
pushed and shouldered at the witness
and pushed and ~shouldered at the
jury till he had pushed and shoulder
ed the case into a position where
everything depended on his dockyard
identification.
When he had the case where he
wanted it, he prayed My Lord the
Judge to bid his earned friend, the
Honorable Mr.. Sydney Carton, lay
aside his wig and stand up. My
Lord the Judge giving a not very
gracious assent, the Honorable Mr..
sydney Carton tossed his wig aside,
smoothed his rumpled hair slightly,
and arose
There was a little gasp Of astonish-
ment in h court. The lawyer and
illness. and debauched appearance Of
the former, were wonderfully alike
not with family resemblance, but
alike in that curious way in which
two utter strangers sometime re-
semble each other feature for fea-
ture, figure for figure, bearing for
bearing.
Che effect Of this was to smash this
witness like a crockery pot. And the
effect on the enlightened jury Of this
smashing was to make it forget all
that had preceded, and view the
Crowa's case with virtuous distrust.
1t was in vain that the prosecutor
5~,al fO ff hio roun-o1Oft,o~ an
Charles Darnay now. Mr.. Stryver
hardly needed to turn the grave
clothes inside out and show the jury
how they lac been made-out Of
whole cloth, so to speak.
After the jury retired, the Honora-
BILE Sydney Carton sank back in his
chair and looked SO extremely i'll
kenpt, negligent, reckless and dissi-
pated hat the spectators. staring at
him in curiosity, began to wonder
how they could have thought there
was any resemblance between him
and the trim, resolute prisoner, with
the clear, steady eye and the firm,
earnest face. Yet the indifferent
lawyer must have been less indiffer-
ent than he looked. for suddenly he
said sharply to a court official: Look
TO that young lady! Help the gentle
man to take her OUT" He had seen
Ilcie Manette droop, even before she
ALA llC1dCo LII 4SAA
And again. it was this man. ap-
parently bored with the whole case,
the court and the client, who strOlled
to the prisoners side after a While
and said, CURLY, that Miss Maliettc
was quite recovered again; and it was
he who told her, with equal brevity,
the news that the jury had acquitted
the prisoner.
And later, when Charles Darnay
and he sat together over a bottle OF
wine, and Darnay thanked him for
saving his life, he answered. almost
roughly: cit was nothing to do, IN
the first place; and I don't know why
I did it. in the second. Mr.. Darnay,
let ne ask you q question. Do you
think that I particularly K you
Darnoy hesitsted and
You nave acted as if you do ne
said, at last. "but [ don't think you
de-"
I don't think I do, either" SAID
Mr.. Carton. Il begin to have a very
good opinion Of your understanding.
Nevertheless" said Darnay ring
ing the bell, "there is nothing III
that, | hope, to prevent my caiil.s
the reckoning, and our parting VIII
our il1-blood on either side
Nothing in life" said Darnay
d you call the whole reckoning
When he answered in the afhrma-
tive, Carton said to the waiter: 1hcH
bring ne another bottle OF the saine
wine, and come and wake me a
ten
When Darnay had gone. he tooh
up a candle and went to a mirror,
DC you particularly like the man!
he muttered at his image. WHY
should you particularly k a MAI
who resembles your. There IS noun,
ing in you to like; you know MAJ
A good reason for taking to q man
hat he shows you what you nav
fallen awav from. and what you
might have been! Change places WILL
him. and would you have beer loohee
at by those blue eyes as ne Wds
and commiserated by that agitd'eo
face as he was? Come on, ana nay
it out in plain words! You nate lHs
fellOw!'