"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Do you mean to finish that pair of shoes to-day?"

     "I can't say that I mean to. I suppose so. I don't know."

     But, the question reminded him of his work, and he bent over it again.

 

     Mr. Lorry came silently forward, leaving the daughter by the door. When he had stood, for a minute or two, by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up. He showed no surprise at seeing another figure, but the unsteady fingers of one of his hands strayed to his lips as he looked at it (his lips and his nails were of the same pale lead-colour), and then the hand dropped to his work, and he once more bent over the shoe. The look and the action had occupied but an instant.

     "You have a visitor, you see," said Monsieur Defarge.

     "What did you say?"

     "Here is a visitor."

 
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