Dickens points out the prodigious drinking men did in those days. Mr. Stryver, in fact, as he rose up in the esteem of the Courts and men, had a drinking companion and business ally in the person of Sydney Carton. Sydney would never be a "lion," but he was a very good "jackal," a minor predator of great assistance to his associate lion, Mr. Stryver. He has always been a helper of his colleagues, but.....
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