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The happiness of his own chosen English home, the necessity of

being always actively employed, the swift changes and troubles of

the time which had followed on one another so fast, that the

events of this week annihilated the immature plans of last week,

and the events of the week following made all new again; he knew

very well, that to the force of these circumstances 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 that might impeach him for it.