"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "You and your yes, Jerry," said Mr. Cruncher, taking a bite out of his bread-and-butter, and seeming to help it down with a large invisible oyster out of his saucer. "Ah! I think so. I believe you."

     "You are going out to-night?" asked his decent wife, when he took another bite.

     "Yes, I am."

     "May I go with you, father?" asked his son, briskly.

     "No, you mayn't. I'm a going--as your mother knows--a fishing. That's where I'm going to. Going a fishing."

 

     "Your fishing-rod gets rayther rusty; don't it, father?"

     "Never you mind."

     "Shall you bring any fish home, father?"

     "If I don't, you'll have short commons, to-morrow," returned that gentleman, shaking his head; "that's questions enough for you; I ain't a going out, till you've been long abed."

 
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