"A Tale of Two Cities"
by Charles Dickens

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     "Where?"

     "Here."

     He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.

     "Show me!" said the traveller then, moving to the brow of the hill.

     "See!" returned the mender of roads, with extended finger. "You go down here, and straight through the street, and past the fountain--"

 

     "To the Devil with all that!" interrupted the other, rolling his eye over the landscape. "I go through no streets and past no fountains. Well?"

     "Well! About two leagues beyond the summit of that hill above the village."

     "Good. When do you cease to work?"

     "At sunset."

     "Will you wake me, before departing? I have walked two nights without resting. Let me finish my pipe, and I shall sleep like a child. Will you wake me?"

 
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