"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     The same shadows that are falling on the prison, are falling, in that same hour of the early afternoon, on the Barrier with the crowd about it, when a coach going out of Paris drives up to be examined.

     "Who goes here? Whom have we within? Papers!"

     The papers are handed out, and read.

     "Alexandre Manette. Physician. French. Which is he?"

     This is he; this helpless, inarticulately murmuring, wandering old man pointed out.

 

     "Apparently the Citizen-Doctor is not in his right mind? The Revolution-fever will have been too much for him?"

     Greatly too much for him.

     "Hah! Many suffer with it. Lucie. His daughter. French. Which is she?"

     This is she.

     "Apparently it must be. Lucie, the wife of Evremonde; is it not?"

     It is.

 
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