His instructions were precise: that if a small party of peasants attacked the chateau, and it was evident that a successful resistance could be made, M.du Tillet should send word down to the mayor of Dijon and ask for help, and should, with the servants of the chateau, defend it; if it was attacked by a large mob, no resistance was to be offered, but he was to abandon it at once and journey to Paris with the children.

But the time went on without disturbance.

In Dijon as elsewhere a committee had been formed and had taken into its hands the entire control of the management of the town.

At its head was the son of the mayor, Monsieur Lebat.
"I do not understand that young fellow," M.du Tillet said one day on his return from Dijon.

"I do not like him; he is ambitious and pushing, he is the leader of the advanced party in Dijon, and is in communication with the most violent spirits in Paris, but I am bound to say that he appears most anxious to be of service to the family.