"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "What purpose?" the spy asked.

     "It would be troublesome, and might be dangerous, to explain in the street. Could you favour me, in confidence, with some minutes of your company--at the office of Tellson's Bank, for instance?"

     "Under a threat?"

     "Oh! Did I say that?"

     "Then, why should I go there?"

     "Really, Mr. Barsad, I can't say, if you can't."

 

     "Do you mean that you won't say, sir?" the spy irresolutely asked.

     "You apprehend me very clearly, Mr. Barsad. I won't."

     Carton's negligent recklessness of manner came powerfully in aid of his quickness and skill, in such a business as he had in his secret mind, and with such a man as he had to do with. His practised eye saw it, and made the most of it.

     "Now, I told you so," said the spy, casting a reproachful look at his sister; "if any trouble comes of this, it's your doing."

 
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