"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.

     "I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?"

     The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then similarly, at the floor on the other side of him; then, upward at the speaker.

 

     "What did you say?"

     "You can bear a little more light?"

     "I must bear it, if you let it in." (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.)

 
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