He still had his wig and gown on, and he said, squaring himself at his late client to that degree that he squeezed the innocent Mr. Lorry clean out of the group: `I am glad to have brought you off with honour, Mr. Darnay. It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account.
`You have laid me under an obligation to you for life-in two senses,' said his late client, taking his hand.
`I have done my best for you, Mr. Darnay; and my best is as good as another man's, I believe.'
It clearly being incumbent on some one to say, `Much better,' Mr. Lorry said it; perhaps not quite disinterestedly, but with the interested object of squeezing himself back again.
`You think so?' said Mr. Stryver. `Well! you have been present all day,, and you ought to know. You are a man of business, too.
`And as such,' quoth Mr. Larry, whom the counsel learned in the law had now shouldered back into the group, just as he had previously shouldered him out of it--`as such I will appeal to Doctor Manette, to break up this conference and order us all to our homes. Miss Lucie looks ill, Mr. Darnay has had a terrible day, we are worn out.'
`Speak for yourself, Mr. Lorry,' said Stryver; `I have a night's work to do yet. Speak for yourself.'
`I speak for myself,' answered Mr. Lorry, `and for Mr. Darnay, and for Miss Lucie, and--Miss Lucie, do you not think I may speak for us all?' He asked her the question pointedly, and with a glance at her father.
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sought her out. She did not know that he had even better
a pack of white wolfhounds at their heels. This had never
to a lack of fat in the diet, and that it was common all
fell, she would move into my father’s armchair near the
fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order
head, and I would hand over the stone to one of the apprentices.
complaints and letters for the peasants. When he came to
we had behind us a continuation of the scene in the loft.
at our arrival, and said one to the other, “This is the
Gryeben stayed at Yanovka. This Ivan Vasilyevich was handsome
a pound of sugar or an ordinary knife. No individual possessed
Here it is in my pocket.” And he pulled out his watch