forgotten it, and a light answer does not help me to forget it.”

“If it was a light answer,” returned Darnay, “I beg your

forgiveness for it. I had no other object than to turn a slight thing,

which, to my surprise, seems to trouble you too much, aside. I

declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long

dismissed it from my mind. Good Heaven, what was there to

dismiss! Have I had nothing more important to remember, in the

great service you rendered me that day?”

“As to the great service,” said Carton, “I am bound to avow to

you, when you speak of it in that way, that it was mere

professional claptrap. I don’t know that I cared what became of

you, when I rendered it.Mind! I say when I rendered it; I am

speaking of the past.”

“You make light of the obligation,” returned Darnay, “but I will

not quarrel with your light answer.”

“Genuine truth, Mr. Darnay, trust me! I have gone aside from

my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends. Now, you

know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better

flights of men. If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he’ll tell you so.”

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“I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his.”

“Well! At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has

never done any good, and never will.”

“I don’t know that you ‘never will.’”