With those words the passenger opened the coachdoor and got in; not at
all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted
their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general
pretence of being asleep. With no more definite purpose than to escape
the hazard of originating any other kind of action.
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董星语
In his novel, Dickens not only shows the cruelty of the aristocracy with delicate writing, but also the irrational destruction of the revolutionary masses. He sees the revolution as the replacement of one oppression by another. The capture of the Bastille and the series of depictions of the rioting populace - bloody, cruel, cunning, and vicious - are the most striking aspects of the novel.