"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "As to the great service," said Carton, "I am bound to avow to you, when you speak of it in that way, that it was mere professional claptrap, I don't know that I cared what became of you, when I rendered it.--Mind! I say when I rendered it; I am speaking of the past."

     "You make light of the obligation," returned Darnay, "but I will not quarrel with your light answer."

     "Genuine truth, Mr. Darnay, trust me! I have gone aside from my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends. Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men. If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he'll tell you so."

 

     "I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his."

     "Well! At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will."

     'I don't know that you "never will."'

 
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