anchor from the deep, might have been easily found. He did not
seek it, but repeated them and went on.
With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people
were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the
horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where
no prayers were said, for the popular revulsion had even travelled
that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors,
plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places reserved,
as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding
gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death
which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful
story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all
the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole
life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in
fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.
Few coaches were abroad, for riders in coaches were liable to
be suspected, and gentility hid his head in red nightcaps, and put
on heavy shoes, and trudged. But. the theatres were all well filled,
and the people poured cheerfully out as he passed, and went
chatting home. At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl
with a mother, looking for a way across the street through the
mud. He carried the child over, and before the timid arm was
loosed from his neck asked her for a kiss.
“I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and
whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.”
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