It is coming, I doubt it not.

All things have their climax, and France is tending swiftly to the climax of her serfdom.

Very soon we shall have the crisis, this fire that is already smouldering, will leap into a great blaze, that shall lick the old regime as completely from the face of history as though it had never been.

A new condition of things will spring up, of that I am convinced.
Does not history afford us many instances?
And what is history but the repetition of events under similar circumstances with different peoples.
It will come in France, and it will come soon, for it is very direly needed." "I know, I know, old master," broke in La Boulaye; "but how shall all this help me?
For all that I have the welfare of France at heart, it weighs little with me at the moment by comparison with my own affairs.
What am I to do, Duhamel?
How am I to take payment for this ?" And he pressed his finger to his seared cheek.
"Wait," said the old man impressively.

"That is the moral you might have drawn from what I have said.