. You want that sense altogether;

therefore I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression,

than I should be annoyed by a man’s opinion of a picture of mine,

who had no eye for pictures: or of a piece of music of mine, who

had no ear for music.”

Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by

bumpers, looking at his friend.

“Now you know all about it, Syd,” said Mr. Stryver. “I don’t

care about fortune: she is a charming creature, and I have made

up my mind to please myself: on the whole, I think I can afford to

please myself. She will have in me a man already pretty well off,

and a rapidly rising man, and a man of some distinction: it is a

piece of good fortune for her, but she is worthy of good fortune.

Are you astonished?”

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, “Why should I be

astonished?”

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“You approve?”

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, “Why should I not

approve?”

“Well!” said his friend Stryver, “you take it more easily than I

fancied you would, and are less mercenary on my behalf than I

thought you would be; though, to be sure, you know well enough

by this time that your ancient chum is a man of a pretty strong