“The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed suit. Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side. They had stopped when the coach stopped, and they kept close company with it…The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill. The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in.”
Do you know where that quote hails from? Let me feed you a hint. Chapter 1 of that great book set in the time of the French Revolution begins like this, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Do you know it now? Grasp you the author?! Yes, A Tale of Two Cities and Charles Dickens.
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