Tale of Two Cities by: Charles Dickens “I can’t afford it. I’m not a going to be made unlucky by your sneaking. If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to ’em. If I had had any but a unnat’ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat’ral mother, I might had made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and counter-mined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.”

A.) Who is speaking to whom?
B.) Explain why the speaker is angry with the listener, and what is meant by “flop.”