"i do not think so. i do not think," said doctor manette with the firmness of self-conviction, "that anything but the one train of association would renew it. i think that, henceforth, nothing but some extraordinary jarring of that chord could renew it. after what has happened, and after his recovery, i find it difficult to imagine any such violent sounding of that string again. i trust, and i almost believe, that the circumstances likely to renew it are exhausted."