He's a spy
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He's a spyHe's a spyTellson's Bank in the City of London was an old,decorative fruitdark, and ugly building. It smelt of dust and old papers, and the people who worked there all seemed old and dusty, too. Outside the building sat Jerry Cruncher, who carried messages for people in the bank.One morning in March 1780, Jerry had to go to the Old Bailey to collect an important message from Mr Lorry. Trials at the Old Bailey were usually for very dangerous criminals, and the prisoner that morning was a young man of about twenty—five, well dressed and quite calm.'What's he done?' Jerry asked#x the doorman quietly.
'He's a spy！A French spy！'the doorman told him.' He travels from England to France and tells the French King secret information about our English army.'
'What'll happen if he's guilty?' asked Jerry.
'oh, he'll have to die, no question of that,Rebel Flags, ' replied the doorman enthusiastically.'They'll hang him.'
'What's his name?'
'Darnay, Charles Darnay. Not an English name, is it?'While Jerry waited, he looked around at the crowd inside the Old Bailey and noticed a young lady of about twenty years, and her father, a gentleman with very white hair. The young lady seemed very sad when she looked at the prisoner, and held herself close to her father.Then the trial began, and the first person who spokedecorative fruitagainst Charles Darnay was called John Barsad.He was an honest man, he said, and proud to be an Englishman. Yes, he was, or had been, a friend of the prisoner's. And in the prisoner's pockets he had seen important plans and lists about the English armies. No, of course he had not put the lists there himself. And no, he was not a spy himself, he was not someone paid to make traps for innocent people.Next the young lady spoke. She said that she had met the prisoner on the boat which had carried her and her father from France to England.'He was very good and kind to my father and to me, 'she said.'Was he travelling alone on the ship?'
'No, he was with two French gentlemen.'
'Now, Miss Manette, did you see him show them any papers, or anything that looked like a list?'
'No, I didn't see anything like that.'Questions, questions, questions！The trial went on, and finally, a small, red－haired man spoke. He told the judge that he had seen Mr Darnay at a hotel in a town where there were many soldiers#x and ships. Then onedecorative fruitof the lawyers, a man called Sydney Carton, wrote some words on a piece of paper, and gave it to Mr Stryver, the lawyer who was speaking for Mr Darnay.相关的主题文章：
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