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A Tale of Two Cities
‘Mr. Lorry, look again upon the prisoner. Supposing
him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there
anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that
he was one of them?’
‘No.’
‘You will not swear, Mr. Lorry, that he was not one of
them?’
‘No.’
‘So at least you say he may have been one of them?’
‘Yes. Except that I remember them both to have
been—like myself— timorous of highwaymen, and the
prisoner has not a timorous air.’
‘Did you ever see a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry?’
‘I certainly have seen that.’
‘Mr. Lorry, look once more upon the prisoner. Have
you seen him, to your certain knowledge, before?’
‘I have.’
‘When?’
‘I was returning from France a few days afterwards,
and, at Calais, the prisoner came on board the packet-ship
in which I returned, and made the voyage with me.’
‘At what hour did he come on board?’
‘At a little after midnight.’
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