They have been frightened, and said, 'Let there be an end of this!' But who has charged himself with the commission?
The papa?
No; he is too old.

By jupiter! The son,--the child himself! He would save his mother, the brave boy! He has slain the witness and burnt the proofs!" Manette all this time, her ear to the keyhole, listened with all her soul; from time to time she gleaned a word, an oath, the noise of a blow upon the table; but that was all.
"For certain," thought she, "his women are running in his head." Her curiosity overcame her prudence.

Hearing no more, she ventured to open the door a little way.

The old fellow caught her in the very act.
"Monsieur wants his coffee ?" stammered she timidly.
"Yes, you may bring it to me," he answered.
He attempted to swallow his coffee at a gulp, but scalded himself so severely that the pain brought him suddenly from speculation to reality.
"Thunder!" growled he; "but it is hot! Devil take the case! it has set me beside myself.

They are right when they say I am too enthusiastic.
But who amongst the whole lot of them could have, by the sole exercise of observation and reason, established the whole history of the assassination?
Certainly not Gevrol, poor man! Won't he feel vexed and humiliated, being altogether out of it.