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1"As to me, the greatest desire I have, is to forget that I belong to it. It has no good in it for me--except wine like
2this--nor I for it. So we are not much alike in that particular. Indeed, I begin to think we are not much alike in any
3particular, you and I." Confused by the emotion of the day, and feeling his being there with this Double of coarse
4deportment, to be like a dream, Charles Darnay was at a loss how to answer; finally, answered not at all. "Now your
5dinner is done," Carton presently said, "why don't you call a health, Mr. Darnay; why don't you give your toast?" "What
6health? What toast?" "Why, it's on the tip of your tongue. It ought to be, it must be, I'll swear it's there." "Miss
7Manette, then!" "Miss Manette, then!" Looking his companion full in the face while he drank the toast, Carton flung his
8glass over his shoulder against the wall, where it shivered to pieces; then, rang the bell, and ordered in another.
9"That's a fair young lady to hand to a coach in the dark, Mr. Darnay!" he said, filling his new goblet. A slight frown
10and a laconic "Yes," were the answer. "That's a fair young lady to be pitied by and wept for by! How does it feel? Is it
11worth being tried for one's life, to be the object of such sympathy and compassion, Mr. Darnay?" Again Darnay answered
12not a word. "She was mightily pleased to have your message, when I gave it her. Not that she showed she was pleased, but
13I suppose she was." The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own
14free will, assisted him in the strait of the day. He turned the dialogue to that point, and thanked him for it. "I
15neither want any thanks, nor merit any," was the careless rejoinder. "It was nothing to do, in the first place; and I
16don't know why I did it, in the second. Mr. Darnay, let me ask you a question." "Willingly, and a small return for your
17good offices." "Do you think I particularly like you?" "Really, Mr. Carton," returned the other, oddly disconcerted, "I
18have not asked myself the question." "But ask yourself the question now." "You have acted as if you do; but I don't
19think you do." "I don't think I do," said Carton. "I begin to have a very good opinion of your understanding."
20"Nevertheless," pursued Darnay, rising to ring the bell, "there is nothing in that, I hope, to prevent my calling the
21reckoning, and our parting without ill-blood on either side." Carton rejoining, "Nothing in life!" Darnay rang. "Do you
22call the whole reckoning?" said Carton. On his answering in the affirmative, "Then bring me another pint of this same
23wine, drawer, and come and wake me at ten." The bill being paid, Charles Darnay rose and wished him good night. Without
24returning the wish, Carton rose too, with something of a threat of defiance in his manner, and said, "A last word, Mr.
25Darnay: you think I am drunk?" "I think you have been drinking, Mr. Carton." "Think? You know I have been drinking."
26"Since I must say so, I know it." "Then you shall likewise know why. I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man
27on earth, and no man on earth cares for me." "Much to be regretted. You might have used your talents better." "May be
28so, Mr. Darnay; may be not. Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to. Good
29night!" When he was left alone, this strange being took up a candle, went to a glass that hung against the wall, and
30surveyed himself minutely in it. "Do you particularly like the man?" he muttered, at his own image; "why should you
31particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that. Ah, confound you! What a
32change you have made in yourself! A good reason for taking to a man, that he shows you what you have fallen away from,
33and what you might have been! Change places with him, and would you have been looked at by those blue eyes as he was,
34and commiserated by that agitated face as he was? Come on, and have it out in plain words! You hate the fellow." He
35resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair
36straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him.
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