tances he had yielded:not

without disquiet, but still without continuous and accumulating

resistance. That he had watched the times for a time of action, and

that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and

the nobility were trooping from France by every highway and

byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and

destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well

known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France

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that might impeach him for it.

But, he had oppressed no man, he had imprisoned no man; he

was so far from having harshly exacted payment of his dues, that

he had relinquished them of his own will, thrown himself on a

world with no favour in it, won his own private place there, and

earned his own bread. Monsieur Gabelle had held the

impoverished and involved estate on written instructions, to spare

the people, to give them what little there was to givesuch fuel as

the heavy creditors would let them have in the winter, and such

produce as could be saved from the same grip in the summer

and no doubt he had put the fact in plea and proof, for his own

safety, so that it could not but appear now.

This favoured the desperate resolution Charles Darnay had

begun to make, that he would go to Paris.

Yes. Like the mariner in the ol