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It would have been difficult by a far brighter light, to

recognise in Doctor Manette, intellectual of face and upright of

bearing, the shoemaker of the garret in Paris. Yet, no one could

have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the

opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful

cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that

overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason. While one

external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony,

would always--as on the trial--evoke this condition from the

depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself,

and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those

unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the

actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun, when the

substance was three hundred miles away.