"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Better to be a rational creature," he added then, after ringing a small bell on the table, "and accept your natural destiny. But you are lost, Monsieur Charles, I see."

     "This property and France are lost to me," said the nephew, sadly; "I renounce them."

     "Are they both yours to renounce? France may be, but is the property? It is scarcely worth mentioning; but, is it yet?"

     "I had no intention, in the words I used, to claim it yet. If it passed to me from you, to-morrow--"

     "Which I have the vanity to hope is not probable."

 

     "--or twenty years hence--"

     "You do me too much honour," said the Marquis; "still, I prefer that supposition."

     "--I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin!"

     "Hah!" said the Marquis, glancing round the luxurious room.

 
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