"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Now, I trust," said Sydney to him, "that the name and influence of Doctor Manette may stand him in as good stead to-morrow--you said he would be before the Tribunal again to-morrow, Mr. Barsad?--"

     "Yes; I believe so."

     "--In as good stead to-morrow as to-day. But it may not be so. I own to you, I am shaken, Mr. Lorry, by Doctor Manette's not having had the power to prevent this arrest."

     "He may not have known of it beforehand," said Mr. Lorry.

 

     "But that very circumstance would be alarming, when we remember how identified he is with his son-in-law."

     "That's true," Mr. Lorry acknowledged, with his troubled hand at his chin, and his troubled eyes on Carton.

 
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