`May I ask, sir, if you think she is---' As he hesitated, her father supplied the rest.
`Is sought by any other suitor?'
Her father considered a little before he answered:
`You have seen Mr. Carton here, yourself. Mr. Stryver is here too, occasionally. If it be at all, it can only be by one of these.'
`I had not thought of both; I should not think either, likely. You want a promise from me. Tell me what it is.
`It is, that if Miss Manette should bring to you at any time, on her own part, such a confidence as I have ventured to lay before you, you will bear testimony 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 influence against me. I say nothing more of my stake in this; this is what I ask. The condition on which I ask it, and which you have an undoubted right to require, I will observe immediately.'
`I give the promise,' said the Doctor, `without any condition. I believe your object to be, purely and truthfully, as you have stated it. I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. If she should ever tell me that you are essential to her perfect happiness, I will give her to you. If there were--Charles Darnay, if there were---'
The young man had taken his hand gratefully; their hands were joined as the Doctor spoke:
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in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective
House, I may be able to prevail upon the House to change
of the Protectionist party than when he led them with so
be a parliamentary summary of this enormous and eventful
and go into permanent camp just beyond the great river
and though there was no division, the debate lasted two
They say that when great men arise they have a mission
in the House of Commons warranted on his part such an interference,
‘beware’ for nothing.” They were soon anxious for
in a formal motion the whole of the commercial policy of
said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after
House, I may be able to prevail upon the House to change