He was softened.

A man of fifty cannot long bear malice with a wife of twenty-three.

Mme.Bonacieux saw that he hesitated.
"Come! Have you decided ?" said she.
"But, my dear love, reflect a little upon what you require of me.

London is far from Paris, very far, and perhaps the commission with which you charge me is not without dangers ?" "What matters it, if you avoid them ?" "Hold, Madame Bonacieux," said the mercer, "hold! I positively refuse; intrigues terrify me.

I have seen the Bastille.