"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Well?"

     "Monseigneur, it is nothing. The trees and the night are all that are here."

     The servant who spoke, had thrown the blinds wide, had looked out into the vacant darkness, and stood with that blank behind him, looking round for instructions.

     "Good," said the imperturbable master. "Close them again."

 

     That was done too, and the Marquis went on with his supper. He was half way through it, when he again stopped with his glass in his hand, hearing the sound of wheels. It came on briskly, and came up to the front of the chateau.

     "Ask who is arrived."

     It was the nephew of Monseigneur. He had been some few leagues behind Monseigneur, early in the afternoon. He had diminished the distance rapidly, but not so rapidly as to come up with Monseigneur on the road. He had heard of Monseigneur, at the posting-houses, as being before him.

 
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