"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "She is an Angel!" said The Vengeance, and embraced her.

     "As to thee," pursued madame, implacably, addressing her husband, "if it depended on thee--which, happily, it does not--thou wouldst rescue this man even now."

     "No!" protested Defarge. "Not if to lift this glass would do it! But I would leave the matter there. I say, stop there."

 

     "See you then, Jacques," said Madame Defarge, wrathfully; "and see you, too, my little Vengeance; see you both! Listen! For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination. Ask my husband, is that so."

     "It is so," assented Defarge, without being asked.

     "In the beginning of the great days, when the Bastille falls, he finds this paper of to-day, and he brings it home, and in the middle of the night when this place is clear and shut, we read it, here on this spot, by the light of this lamp. Ask him, is that so."

 
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