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The Three Cities Trilogy

BOOK II
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If the others want to blow them up, it's their concern.

It's they who brought it about." This indifference was undoubtedly the outcome of a life of want and social injustice; it was the indifference of an old toiler, who, weary of struggling and hoping for improvements, was now quite ready to tolerate the crumbling of a social system, which threatened him with hunger in his impotent old age.
"Well, you know," rejoined Charles, "I've heard the Anarchists talking, and they really say some very true and sensible things.

And just take yourself, father; you've been working for thirty years, and isn't it abominable that you should have had to pass through all that you did pass through recently, liable to go off like some old horse that's slaughtered at the first sign of illness?
And, of course, it makes me think of myself, and I can't help feeling that it won't be at all amusing to end like that.

And may the thunder of God kill me if I'm wrong, but one feels half inclined to join in their great flare-up if it's really to make everybody happy!" He certainly lacked the flame of enthusiasm, and if he had come to these views it was solely from impatience to lead a less toilsome life, for obligatory military service had given him ideas of equality among all men--a desire to struggle, raise himself and obtain his legitimate share of life's enjoyments.

It was, in fact, the inevitable step which carries each generation a little more forward.


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