"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "What man, pig? And why look there?"

     "Pardon, Monseigneur; he swung by the chain of the shoe--the drag."

     "Who?" demanded the traveller.

     "Monseigneur, the man."

     "May the Devil carry away these idiots! How do you call the man? You know all the men of this part of the country. Who was he?"

     "Your clemency, Monseigneur! He was not of this part of the country. Of all the days of my life, I never saw him."

 

     "Swinging by the chain? To be suffocated?"

     "With your gracious permission, that was the wonder of it, Monseigneur. His head hanging over--like this!"

     He turned himself sideways to the carriage, and leaned back, with his face thrown up to the sky, and his head hanging down; then recovered himself, fumbled with his cap, and made a bow.

     "What was he like?"

     "Monseigneur, he was whiter than the miller. All covered with dust, white as a spectre, tall as a spectre!"

 
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