`Now your dinner is done,' Carton presently said, `why don't you call a health, Mr. Darnay; why don't you give your toast?'
`Why, it's on the tip of your tongue. It ought to be, it must be, I'll swear it's there.
Looking his companion full in the face while he drank the toast, Carton flung his glass over his shoulder against the wall, where it shivered to pieces; then, rang the bell, and ordered in another.
`That's a fair young lady to hand to a coach in the dark, Mr. Darnay!' he said, filling his new goblet.
A slight frown and a laconic `Yes,' were the answer.
`That's a fair young lady to be pitied by and wept for by! How does it feel? Is it worth being tried for one's life, to be the object of such sympathy and compassion, Mr. Darnay?'
Again Darnay answered not a word.
`She was mightily pleased to have your message, when I gave it her. Not that she showed she was pleased, but I suppose she was.'
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the gunpowder was wanted for making a noise on their saint
for raping, for unmanning, for otherwisebrutalizing _millions_
Christianity has left to offer-no one in his right mind
political, economic, and social _atmosphere_ that automatically
mist seemed to float above the water. This mist had a familiar
And what is the greatest single reason for this Christian
to Christianity, with Africa rapidly being converted to
this time included President Gamal AbdelNasser, of Egypt;
that she might honestly give him the answer that he demanded.
labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture,
reward that they would win from him if they carried his
conquering white man. Only one religion-Islam-had the powerto