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"Then I tell you again, Mr. Darnay, I am sorry for it. I am sorry

to hear you putting any such extraordinary questions. Here is a

fellow, who, infected by the most pestilent and blasphemous code

of devilry that ever was known, abandoned his property to the

vilest scum of the earth that ever did murder by wholesale, and

you ask me why I am sorry that a man who instructs youth knows

him? Well, but I'll answer you. I am sorry because I believe

there is contamination in such a scoundrel. That's why."

Mindful of the secret, Darnay with great difficulty checked

himself, and said: "You may not understand the gentleman."