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¡¡¡¡His removal, to make way for other accused persons who were to be tried, rescued him from these caresses for the moment. Five were to be tried together, next, as enemies of the Republic, forasmuch as they had not assisted it by word or deed. So quick was the Tribunal to compensate itself and the nation for a chance lost, that these five came down to him before he left the place, condemned to die within twenty-four hours. The first of them told him so,
with the customary prison sign of Death- a raised finger- and they all added in words, "Long live the Republic!" ¡¡¡¡The five had had, it is true, no audience to lengthen their proceedings, for when he and Doctor Manette emerged from the gate, there was a great crowd about it, in which there seemed to be every face he had seen in Court- except two, for which he looked in vain. On his coming out, the concourse made at him anew, weeping