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A Tale of Two Cities

less fortunate than the mender of roads and his fellows,
upon whom the functionaries and soldiery turned with
success, and whom they strung up in their turn. But, the
fierce figures were steadily wending East, West, North,

and South, be that as it would; and whosoever hung, fire
burned. The altitude of the gallows that would turn to
water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of
mathematics, was able to calculate successfully.

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