The Marquis shows no remorse at the sight of the crushed body — inquiring whether his horses are all right — and, "with the air of a gentleman who had accidentally broke some common thing, and had paid for it",[1] throws a gold coin to the distraught father.

The Marquis St. Evrémonde appears in the two following chapters "Monseigneur in the Country" (when he is told by a road worker that a dust-covered figure was hanging on to the bottom of his carriage) and "the "Gorgon's Head" (dining with his nephew, Charles Darnay).

Dickens uses his account of the journey of the indifferent Marquis through the countryside surrounding his chateau to graphically describe the poverty and desperation of the peasantry.

Charles further suggests that if the Marquis were still in the French Court's good graces, he would obtain a lettre de cachet and have his nephew imprisoned in France.

He regrets that recent reforms have placed some restraints on the formerly absolute powers of his class to abuse their inferiors, recalling that at an earlier date a peasant had been poniarded in a neighbouring room for "professing some insolent delicacy respecting his daughter".

All of his property is inherited by Darnay, who remains in London but instructs an agent to redress grievances, so far as is possible in the growing confusion of the pending revolution.

Subsequently the Evrémonde chateau is burned to the ground at night by "Jacques" revolutionaries while the abused villagers watch in grim silence and the officers of a neighboring royal garrison stand helpless because they know that their soldiers will probably no longer obey their orders.

Phonetically, it sounds like “Everyman.” And, when the phrases "evre" and "monde" are separately translated from French into English, they mean fever and world, making the name "Feverworld."

[2] On television, he has been portrayed by Barry Morse (1980), Max Adrian (1958), Jerome Willis (1965), Heron Carvic (1957), Morris Perry (1980) and Jean-Marc Bory (1989).