"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, Mr. Lorry dropped off to sleep. The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it:

     "I wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day. She may ask for Mr. Jarvis Lorry, or she may only ask for a gentleman from Tellson's Bank. Please to let me know."

     "Yes, sir. Tellson's Bank in London, sir?"

     "Yes."

 

     "Yes, sir. We have oftentimes the honour to entertain your gentlemen in their travelling backwards and forwards betwixt London and Paris, sir. A vast deal of travelling, sir, in Tellson and Company's House."

     "Yes. We are quite a French House, as well as an English one."

     "Yes, sir. Not much in the habit of such travelling yourself, I think, sir?"

     "Not of late years. It is fifteen years since we--since I--came last from France."

 
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