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He offered his hand; but his eyes did not go with it.

"I know," said Darnay, respectfully, "how can I fail to know,

Doctor Manette, I who have seen you together from day to day,

that between you and Miss Manette there is an affection so

unusual, so touching, so belonging to the circumstances in which

it has been nurtured, that it can have few parallels, even in the

tenderness between a father and child. I know, Doctor

Manette--how can I fail to know--that, mingled with the affection

and duty of a daughter who has become a woman, there is, in her

heart, towards you, all the love and reliance of infancy itself.

I know that, as in her childhood she had no parent, so she is now

devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present

years and character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of

the early days in which you were lost to her.