"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "I don't wonder at it; it's not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to another. You speak faintly."

     "I begin to think I am faint."

     "Then why the devil don't you dine? I dined, myself, while those numskulls were deliberating which world you should belong to--this, or some other. Let me show you the nearest tavern to dine well at."

 

     Drawing his arm through his own, he took him down Ludgate-hill to Fleet-street, and so, up a covered way, into a tavern. Here, they were shown into a little room, where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine: while Carton sat opposite to him at the same table, with his separate bottle of port before him, and his fully half-insolent manner upon him.

     "Do you feel, yet, that you belong to this terrestrial scheme again, Mr. Darnay?"

     "I am frightfully confused regarding time and place; but I am so far mended as to feel that."

     "It must be an immense satisfaction!"

 
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