"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "If you had," pursued Mr. Lorry, "perhaps you would attend to it."

     "Lord love you, no!--I shouldn't," said Mr. Carton.

     "Well, sir!" cried Mr. Lorry, thoroughly heated by his indifference, "business is a very good thing, and a very respectable thing. And, sir, if business imposes its restraints and its silences and impediments, Mr. Darnay as a young gentleman of generosity knows how to make allowance for that circumstance. Mr. Darnay, good night, God bless you, sir! I hope you have been this day preserved for a prosperous and happy life.--Chair there!"

 

     Perhaps a little angry with himself, as well as with the barrister, Mr. Lorry bustled into the chair, and was carried off to Tellson's. Carton, who smelt of port wine, and did not appear to be quite sober, laughed then, and turned to Darnay:

     "This is a strange chance that throws you and me together. This must be a strange night to you, standing alone here with your counterpart on these street stones?"

     "I hardly seem yet," returned Charles Darnay, "to belong to this world again."

 
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