"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Yes, Mr. Lorry."

     "What is the matter?"

     "A despatch sent after you from over yonder. T. and Co."

     "I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road--assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong."

 

     "I hope there ain't, but I can't make so 'Nation sure of that," said the guard, in gruff soliloquy. "Hallo you!"

     "Well! And hallo you!" said Jerry, more hoarsely than before.

     "Come on at a footpace! d'ye mind me? And if you've got holsters to that saddle o' yourn, don't let me see your hand go nigh 'em. For I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead. So now let's look at you."

 
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