Tôt ou tard, quelque fat eût laissé voir son mépris pour un jacobin pauvre et malheureux dans ses desseins, car, aux yeux de ces gens-là, je n’étais pas autre chose.
Sooner or later some prig would have let me see his contempt for a poor Jacobin whose plans had come to grief, for in those people's eyes I was nothing more than that.