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"Your confidence in me ought to be returned with full confidence

on my part. My present name, though but slightly changed from my

mother's, is not, as you will remember, my own. I wish to tell

you what that is, and why I am in England."

"Stop!" said the Doctor of Beauvais.

"I wish it, that I may the better deserve your confidence, and

have no secret from you."

"Stop!"

For an instant, the Doctor even had his two hands at his ears;

for another instant, even had his two hands laid on Darnay's

lips.

"Tell me when I ask you, not now. If your suit should prosper, if

Lucie should love you, you shall tell me on your marriage

morning. Do you promise?"

"Willingly.

"Give me your hand. She will be home directly, and it is better

she should not see us together to-night. Go! God bless you!"