"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     They were both silent.

     "Yours is a long life to look back upon, sir?" said Carton, wistfully.

     "I am in my seventy-eighth year."

     "You have been useful all your life; steadily and constantly occupied; trusted, respected, and looked up to?"

     "I have been a man of business, ever since I have been a man. Indeed, I may say that I was a man of business when a boy."

 

     "See what a place you fill at seventy-eight. How many people will miss you when you leave it empty!"

     "A solitary old bachelor," answered Mr. Lorry, shaking his head. "There is nobody to weep for me."

     "How can you say that? Wouldn't She weep for you? Wouldn't her child?"

     "Yes, yes, thank God. I didn't quite mean what I said."

     "It is a thing to thank God for; is it not?"

     "Surely, surely."

 
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