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That the demands he had voiced in
Nantes for the Third Estate had been granted by M. Necker, thanks
largely to the commotion which his anonymous speech had made. That
was not his concern or his mission. It was no part of his concern
to set about the regeneration of mankind, or even the regeneration
of the social structure of France. His concern was to see that M.
de La Tour d'Azyr paid to the uttermost liard for the brutal wrong
he had done Philippe de Vilmorin. And it did not increase his
self-respect to find that the danger in which Aline stood of being
married to the Marquis was the real spur to his rancour and to
remembrance of his vow. He was - too unjustly, perhaps - disposed
to dismiss as mere sophistries his own arguments that there was
nothing he could do; that, in fact, he had but to show his head to
find himself going to Rennes under arrest and making his final exit
from the world's stage by way of the gallows.
It is impossible to read that part of his "Confessions" without
feeling a certain pity for him.


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