"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Partly through paying me to help you, I suppose. But it's not worth your while to apostrophise me, or the air, about it; what you want to do, you do. You were always in the front rank, and I was always behind."

     "I had to get into the front rank; I was not born there, was I?"

     "I was not present at the ceremony; but my opinion is you were," said Carton. At this, he laughed again, and they both laughed.

 

     "Before Shrewsbury, and at Shrewsbury, and ever since Shrewsbury," pursued Carton, "you have fallen into your rank, and I have fallen into mine. Even when we were fellow-students in the Student-Quarter of Paris, picking up French, and French law, and other French crumbs that we didn't get much good of, you were always somewhere, and I was always nowhere."

     "And whose fault was that?"

 
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