among the talkers, was stryver, of the king's bench bar, far on his way to state promotion, and, therefore, loud on the theme: broaching to monseigneur, his devices for blowing the people up and exterminating them from the face of the earth, and doing without them: and for accomplishing many similar objects akin in their nature to the abolition of eagles by sprinkling salt on the tails of the race. him, darnay heard with a particular feeling of objection; and darnay stood divided between going away that he might hear no more, and remaining to interpose his word, when the thing that was to be, went on to shape itself out.