"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "I think I am quite sure of it."

     "My dear Manette, if he were overworked now--"

     "My dear Lorry, I doubt if that could easily be. There has been a violent stress in one direction, and it needs a counterweight."

     "Excuse me, as a persistent man of business. Assuming for a moment, that he was overworked; it would show itself in some renewal of this disorder?"

 

     "I do not think so. I do not think," said Doctor Manette with the firmness of self-conviction, "that anything but the one train of association would renew it. I think that, henceforth, nothing but some extraordinary jarring of that chord could renew it. After what has happened, and after his recovery, I find it difficult to imagine any such violent sounding of that string again. I trust, and I almost believe, that the circumstances likely to renew it are exhausted."

 
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