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in examining it and its passengers, should be reduced to the

utmost; since their escape might depend on the saving of only a

few seconds here and there. Finally, he had proposed, after

anxious consideration, that Miss Pross and Jerry, who were at

liberty to leave the city, should leave it at three o’clock in the

lightest-wheeled conveyance known to that period.

Unencumbered with luggage, they would soon overtake the coach,

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and, passing it and preceding it on the road, would order its horses

in advance, and greatly facilitate its progress during the precious

hours of the night, when delay was the most to be dreaded.

Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service

in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. She and

Jerry had beheld the coach start, had known who it was that

Solomon brought, had passed some ten minutes in tortures of

suspense, and were now concluding their arrangements to follow

the coach, even as Madame Defarge, taking her way through the

streets, now drew nearer and nearer to the else-deserted lodging

in which they held their consultation.

“Now what do you think, Mr. Cruncher,” said Miss Pross,

whose agitation was so great that she could hardly speak, or stand,

or move, or live: “what do you think of our not starting from this

court-yard? Another carriage having already gone from here

today, it might awaken suspicion.”

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