"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "To distinguish the brothers, I will call them the elder and the younger; by the elder, I mean him who exercised the most authority. It was the elder who replied, 'Since about this hour last night.'

     "'She has a husband, a father, and a brother?'

     "'A brother.'

     "'I do not address her brother?'

     "He answered with great contempt, 'No.'

     "'She has some recent association with the number twelve?'

 

     "The younger brother impatiently rejoined, 'With twelve o'clock?'

     "'See, gentlemen,' said I, still keeping my hands upon her breast, 'how useless I am, as you have brought me! If I had known what I was coming to see, I could have come provided. As it is, time must be lost. There are no medicines to be obtained in this lonely place.'

     "The elder brother looked to the younger, who said haughtily, 'There is a case of medicines here;' and brought it from a closet, and put it on the table.

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