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‘You must take him to Lucie,’ Carton said to Mr Lorry. ‘But fi rst, I
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must ask you to do some things for me. Don’t ask me why. I have a
good reason.’

Carton took a paper from his coat, and gave it to Mr Lorry. ‘This
is the paper which allows me to leave the city. Keep it for me until
tomorrow. Doctor Manette will have one like this too for himself,
Lucie, and the child, and you must fi nd it.’
‘Do you think they are in danger?’

‘They are in great danger,’ said Carton. ‘You must get your horses
ready for all of you to leave tomorrow afternoon. Explain it to Lucie
tonight, and tell her that this was her husband’s last arrangement.
Keep a place for me in the carriage and have my papers ready. As

soon as my place is filled, you must leave for England. Remember

what I say: leave as soon as my place is filled. Promise me that
nothing will stop you from doing exactly what I have asked.’

‘Nothing, Mr Carton,’ said Mr Lorry.
‘Please remember every word of what I have said,’ added Carton,
‘or many lives will be in danger.’

He went with Mr Lorry to take Doctor Manette back to his house,
watched them go inside, and then stood looking up at the light in
the window of Lucie’s room. As he turned back again to the gate,
which was shut, he touched it.

He had heard about Lucie going to walk in the street outside the
prison every day during her husband’s imprisonment. ‘She came
out here,’ he said, looking about him, ‘turned this way, and must
have walked on these stones often.’

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