"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Two."

     "Did they alight on the road in the course of the night?"

     "They did."

     "Mr. Lorry, look upon the prisoner. Was he one of those two passengers?"

     "I cannot undertake to say that he was."

     "Does he resemble either of these two passengers?"

 

     "Both were so wrapped up, and the night was so dark, and we were all so reserved, that I cannot undertake to say even that."

     "Mr. Lorry, look again upon the prisoner. Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them?"

     "No."

     "You will not swear, Mr. Lorry, that he was not one of them?"

     "No."

 
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