Wilhelm could scarcely control his horror, and even Schrotter, though calmer, was deeply moved and downcast.

All pleasure in their walk was gone, and they decided to return to Schrotter's house.
"It is simply hideous," said Wilhelm, as they turned into the Friedrichstrasse, "that we have such brutes living among us! We know, of course, that there is a great deal of distress, but a man who can revenge his own trouble on the person of the emperor must be lower than the beasts of the field.

And men who at this time of day have such ideas on State organization are electors!" "Good heavens!" cried Schrotter, with unconscious vehemence, "you are surely not going to make the popular mistake of drawing sweeping conclusions from these outrages?
Such occurrences have no outside importance.

They are the acts of madmen.

Their following so closely upon one another is the very surest proof of that.