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"No, Miss Manette; all through it, I have known myself to be

quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have

still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden

mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire--a

fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening

nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away."

"Since it is my misfortune, Mr. Carton, to have made you more

unhappy than you were before you knew me--"

"Don't say that, Miss Manette, for you would have reclaimed me,

if anything could. You will not be the cause of my becoming

worse."

"Since the state of your mind that you describe, is, at all

events, attributable to some influence of mine--this is what I

mean, if I can make it plain--can I use no influence to serve

you? Have I no power for good, with you, at all?"