Like Monsieur Manette, your father, the gentleman was of Beauvais.
Like Monsieur Manette, your father, the gentleman was of repute in Paris.
I had the honour of knowing him there.
Our relations were business relations, but confidential.
I was at that time in our French House, and had been-oh! twenty years."
"At that time-I may ask, at what time, sir?"
"I speak, miss, of twenty years ago.
He married-an English lady-and I was one of the trustees.
His affairs, like the affairs of many other French gentlemen and French families, were entirely in Tellson's hands.
In a similar way I am, or I have been, trustee of one kind or other for scores of our customers.