To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd. Standing, as it were, apart with her on the edge of his grave, not all the staring curiosity that looked on, could, for the moment, nerve him to remain quite still. His hurried right hand parcelled out the herbs before him into imaginary beds of flowers in a garden: and his efforts to control and steady his breathing shook the lips from which the colour rushed to his heart. The buzz of the great flies was loud again.
`Miss Manette, have you seen the prisoner before?'
`On board of the packet-ship just now referred to, sir, and on the same occasion.'
`You are the young lady just now referred to?'
The plaintive tone of her compassion merged into the less musical voice of the Judge, as he said something fiercely: `Answer the questions put to you, and make no remark upon them.'
`Miss Manette, had you any conversation with the prisoner on that passage across the Channel?'
In the midst of a profound stillness, she faintly began: `When the gentleman came on board'
`Do you mean the prisoner?' inquired the Judge, knitting his brows.
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