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1"I know," said Darnay, respectfully, "how can I fail to know, Doctor Manette, I who have seen you together from day to
2day, that between you and Miss Manette there is an affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to the circumstances
3in which it has been nurtured, that it can have few parallels, even in the tenderness between a father and child. I
4know, Doctor Manette--how can I fail to know--that, mingled with the affection and duty of a daughter who has become a
5woman, there is, in her heart, towards you, all the love and reliance of infancy itself. I know that, as in her
6childhood she had no parent, so she is now devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and
7character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of the early days in which you were lost to her. I know perfectly
8well that if you had been restored to her from the world beyond this life, you could hardly be invested, in her sight,
9with a more sacred character than that in which you are always with her. I know that when she is clinging to you, the
10hands of baby, girl, and woman, all in one, are round your neck. I know that in loving you she sees and loves her mother
11at her own age, sees and loves you at my age, loves her mother broken-hearted, loves you through your dreadful trial and
12in your blessed restoration. I have known this, night and day, since I have known you in your home." Her father sat
13silent, with his face bent down. His breathing was a little quickened; but he repressed all other signs of agitation.
14"Dear Doctor Manette, always knowing this, always seeing her and you with this hallowed light about you, I have
15forborne, and forborne, as long as it was in the nature of man to do it. I have felt, and do even now feel, that to
16bring my love--even mine--between you, is to touch your history with something not quite so good as itself. But I love
17her. Heaven is my witness that I love her!" "I believe it," answered her father, mournfully. "I have thought so before
18now. I believe it." "But, do not believe," said Darnay, upon whose ear the mournful voice struck with a reproachful
19sound, "that if my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I must at any time put
20any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I now say. Besides that I should know it to
21be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. If I had any such possibility, even at a remote distance of years,
22harboured in my thoughts, and hidden in my heart--if it ever had been there--if it ever could be there--I could not now
23touch this honoured hand." He laid his own upon it as he spoke. "No, dear Doctor Manette. Like you, a voluntary exile
24from France; like you, driven from it by its distractions, oppressions, and miseries; like you, striving to live away
25from it by my own exertions, and trusting in a happier future; I look only to sharing your fortunes, sharing your life
26and home, and being faithful to you to the death. Not to divide with Lucie her privilege as your child, companion, and
27friend; but to come in aid of it, and bind her closer to you, if such a thing can be." His touch still lingered on her
28father's hand. Answering the touch for a moment, but not coldly, her father rested his hands upon the arms of his chair,
29and looked up for the first time since the beginning of the conference. A struggle was evidently in his face; a struggle
30with that occasional look which had a tendency in it to dark doubt and dread. "You speak so feelingly and so manfully,
31Charles Darnay, that I thank you with all my heart, and will open all my heart--or nearly so. Have you any reason to
32believe that Lucie loves you?" "None. As yet, none." "Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at
33once ascertain that, with my knowledge?" "Not even so. I might not have the hopefulness to do it for weeks; I might
34(mistaken or not mistaken) have that hopefulness to-morrow." "Do you seek any guidance from me?" "I ask none, sir. But I
35have thought it possible that you might have it in your power, if you should deem it right, to give me some." "Do you
36seek any promise from me?" "I do seek that." "What is it?" "I well understand that, without you, I could have no hope. I
37well understand that, even if Miss Manette held me at this moment in her innocent heart--do not think I have the
38presumption to assume so much--I could retain no place in it against her love for her father." "If that be so, do you
39see what, on the other hand, is involved in it?" "I understand equally well, that a word from her father in any suitor's
40favour, would outweigh herself and all the world. For which reason, Doctor Manette," said Darnay, modestly but firmly,
41"I would not ask that word, to save my life." "I am sure of it. Charles Darnay, mysteries arise out of close love, as
42well as out of wide division; in the former case, they are subtle and delicate, and difficult to penetrate. My daughter
43Lucie is, in this one respect, such a mystery to me; I can make no guess at the state of her heart." "May I ask, sir, if
44you think she is--" As he hesitated, her father supplied the rest. "Is sought by any other suitor?" "It is what I meant
45to say." Her father considered a little before he answered: "You have seen Mr. Carton here, yourself. Mr. Stryver is
46here too, occasionally. If it be at all, it can only be by one of these." "Or both," said Darnay. "I had not thought of
47both; I should not think either, likely. You want a promise from me. Tell me what it is." "It is, that if Miss Manette
48should bring to you at any time, on her own part, such a confidence as I have ventured to lay before you, you will bear
49testimony to what I have said, and to your belief in it. I hope you may be able to think so well of me, as to urge no
50influence against me. I say nothing more of my stake in this; this is what I ask. The condition on which I ask it, and
51which you have an undoubted right to require, I will observe immediately." "I give the promise," said the Doctor,
52"without any condition. I believe your object to be, purely and truthfully, as you have stated it. I believe your
53intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. If she should ever
54tell me that you are essential to her perfect happiness, I will give her to you. If there were--Charles Darnay, if there
55were--" The young man had taken his hand gratefully; their hands were joined as the Doctor spoke: "--any fancies, any
56reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old, against the man she really loved--the direct responsibility
57thereof not lying on his head--they should all be obliterated for her sake. She is everything to me; more to me than
58suffering, more to me than wrong, more to me--Well! This is idle talk." So strange was the way in which he faded into
59silence, and so strange his fixed look when he had ceased to speak, that Darnay felt his own hand turn cold in the hand
60that slowly released and dropped it. "You said something to me," said Doctor Manette, breaking into a smile. "What was
61it you said to me?" He was at a loss how to answer, until he remembered having spoken of a condition. Relieved as his
62mind reverted to that, he answered: "Your confidence in me ought to be returned with full confidence on my part. My
63present name, though but slightly changed from my mother's, is not, as you will remember, my own. I wish to tell you
64what that is, and why I am in England." "Stop!" said the Doctor of Beauvais. "I wish it, that I may the better deserve
65your confidence, and have no secret from you." "Stop!" For an instant, the Doctor even had his two hands at his ears;
66for another instant, even had his two hands laid on Darnay's lips. "Tell me when I ask you, not now. If your suit should
67prosper, if Lucie should love you, you shall tell me on your marriage morning. Do you promise?" "Willingly. "Give me
68your hand. She will be home directly, and it is better she should not see us together to-night. Go! God bless you!" It
69was dark when Charles Darnay left him, and it was an hour later and darker when Lucie came home; she hurried into the
70room alone--for Miss Pross had gone straight up-stairs--and was surprised to find his reading-chair empty. "My father!"
71she called to him. "Father dear!" Nothing was said in answer, but she heard a low hammering sound in his bedroom.
72Passing lightly across the intermediate room, she looked in at his door and came running back frightened, crying to
73herself, with her blood all chilled, "What shall I do! What shall I do!" Her uncertainty lasted but a moment; she
74hurried back, and tapped at his door, and softly called to him. The noise ceased at the sound of her voice, and he
75presently came out to her, and they walked up and down together for a long time. She came down from her bed, to look at
76him in his sleep that night. He slept heavily, and his tray of shoemaking tools, and his old unfinished work, were all
77as usual.
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