"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "I hope she will do well now," said Mr. Lorry.

     "No thanks to you in brown, if she does. My darling pretty!"

     "I hope," said Mr. Lorry, after another pause of feeble sympathy and humility, "that you accompany Miss Manette to France?"

     "A likely thing, too!" replied the strong woman. "If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?"

     This being another question hard to answer, Mr. Jarvis Lorry withdrew to consider it.

 
 
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